Producers Guild of America Awards 1995
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The 7th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, given in The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel
The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel
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, Los Angeles
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, California
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, USA on 4 March 1996, honored the best film
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and television producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

s of 1995.

Film

  • Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award:
    • Apollo 13
      Apollo 13 (film)
      Apollo 13 is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr...

      - Brian Grazer
      Brian Grazer
      Brian Thomas Grazer is an Academy Award-winning American film and television producer who co-founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 with Ron Howard. Together they have produced many acclaimed films, including Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind .- Career :Brian Grazer began his career as a producer...

       and Todd Hallowell
      Todd Hallowell
      Todd Hallowell is an American film producer. His credits include The Da Vinci Code, Cinderella Man, A Beautiful Mind, and Apollo 13.-External links:...

  • Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures:
    • The Brothers McMullen
      The Brothers McMullen
      The Brothers McMullen is a 1995 American comedy-drama film directed, written, produced by, and starring Edward Burns. It deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex,...

      - Edward Burns
      Edward Burns
      Edward Fitzgerald Burns is an American actor, film producer, writer and director.-Early life:Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, the son of Molly , a federal agency manager, and Edward J. Burns, a public relations spokesman and police officer. He was raised a Roman Catholic...

       and Dick Fisher
  • Lifetime Achievement Award:
    • Walter Mirisch
      Walter Mirisch
      Walter Mortimer Mirisch is an American film producer. In his long and successful motion picture career, Walter Mirisch has produced some of the industry’s finest and most memorable films...


Television

  • Television Producer of the Year Award in Episodic:
    • Frasier
      Frasier
      Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...

      - David Angell
      David Angell
      David Lawrence Angell was an American producer of sitcoms. Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series Frasier...

      , Peter Casey
      Peter Casey
      Peter Casey is an American television producer and screenwriter. He was a writer for the American sitcoms The Jeffersons, Cheers and Wings, as well as being a co-creator and writer for Frasier.-External links:...

      , David Lee, Christopher Lloyd
      Christopher Lloyd
      Christopher Allen Lloyd is an American actor. He is best known for playing Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He played Reverend Jim Ignatowski in the television series Taxi and more...

      , Vic Rauseo
      Vic Rauseo
      Vic Rauseo is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for his work on the television series Frasier, for which he received three Primetime Emmy Awards in 1994, 1995 and 1996 as a part of the producing and writing team....

      , Linda Morris
      Linda Morris
      Linda Morris is an American television producer and writer. She is best known for her work on the television series Frasier, for which she received three Primetime Emmy Awards in 1994, 1995 and 1996 as a part of the producing and writing team....

       and Steven Levitan
      Steven Levitan
      Steven E. Levitan is an American director, screenwriter and producer of television comedies. He has created such TV series as Just Shoot Me!, Stark Raving Mad, Stacked, Back to You, and Modern Family....

  • Television Producer of the Year Award in Longform:
    • Truman
      Truman (film)
      Truman is a 1995 HBO movie based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Truman. Starring Gary Sinise as Harry S. Truman, the film centers on Truman's rise to the presidency from humble beginnings, World War II, and his decision to use the first atomic bomb. The film's tagline is "It...

      - Doro Bachrach, Anthea Sylbert and Paula Weinsteinand
  • Most Promising Producer in Television:
    • Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
      Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
      Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999,–with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002–starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman...

      - Tim Braine, Nancy Geller, Jonathan Katz
      Jonathan Katz
      Jonathan Paul Katz is an American comedian, actor, and voice actor who is best known for his starring role in the animated sitcom Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist...

       and Tom Snyder
      Tom Snyder
      Thomas James "Tom" Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s...

  • Lifetime Achievement Award:
    • Ted Turner
      Ted Turner
      Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...


Other

  • Special Award of Merit:
    • Toy Story
      Toy Story
      Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen...

      - Bonnie Arnold
      Bonnie Arnold
      Bonnie Arnold is a Hollywood animation film producer who has worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation, Pixar Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation. Arnold grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, but later worked her way to Hollywood and caught the wave of computer-animation.- Life and career :Arnold has a...

       and Ralph Guggenheim
      Ralph Guggenheim
      Ralph Guggenheim is a video graphics designer, working for Lucasfilm, Pixar, and Electronic Arts. He won a Producers Guild of America Award in 1995 for his contributions to the film Toy Story.-Life:...

  • Honorary Lifetime Membership Award:
    • Robert B. Radnitz
      Robert B. Radnitz
      Robert Bonoff Radnitz was an American film producer best known for his production of the family films Sounder and Where the Lilies Bloom. He produced several movies, many of which were adapted from children's literature.-Early life:An only child, Radnitz was born on August 9, 1924, in Great Neck,...

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