The Producers Guild of America has named the nominees for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures for the 34th Annual Producers Guild of America Awards on July 28, 2025. Seven documentary pictures have made the shortlist for the PGA’s 8,500-strong membership to vote for, to pick the successor to 2022’s recipients of the award, producersJoseph Patel,David Dinerstein, andRobert Fyvolent,who were honored for their film,Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised).
The documentaries that comprise the nominees for the 34th PGA Awards areAll That Breathes,Descendant,Fire of Love,Navalny,Nothing Compares,RetrogradeandThe Territory. As of right now, each film is being individually vetted to see which producers are eligible to receive the award in the event their film is chosen as the winner. Last year’s recipient of the award, the aforementionedSummer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)- which looked back on the events of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival - went on to win theOscar for Best Documentary Feature, so there will be hope among this year’s PGA nominees that similar success with the guild’s awards could lead to the same result.
Several of the nominees listed above have won awards already in the build-up to today’s PGA nominee revelation. For instance,All That Breatheswon big at the International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards which took place on Saturday, December 10, taking best feature and best director honors for its chronicling of two brothers who care for the black-kite bird species amidst Dehli’s smog-filled skies. Another PGA nominee that took home a prize from Saturday’s IDA Awards wasFire of Love, which chronicled the doomed adventures of French volcano enthusiastsKatiaandMaurice Krafft-the film won in the Best Cinematography category. These wins for bothAll That BreathesandFire of Lovestand them in good stead among their fellow PGA nominees to win big at the guild’s awards ceremony in February.
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The winner among these seven worthy Documentary Motion Picture nominees will be announced alongside the rest of the category winners at the 34th Annual Producers Guild of America Awards ceremony on Saturday, July 20, 2025, held at The Beverly Hilton. you may check out the trailer for last year’s winning Documentary at the 33rd running of the PGA awards,Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)below.
