“Sesame Street,” “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” and “Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence” are among early winners as the Producers Guild of America held its west coast PGA Awards nominee celebration on Thursday.
The majority of awards will be announced on Saturday at the annual Producers Guild Awards. But for Thursday’s event at The Aster in Hollywood, four awards were announced. The Children’s and Sports award winners were originally scheduled to be announced on Monday at an event in New York, until it was canceled due to the weather.
Here are the 2026 Producers Guild Awards winners in the sports, children’s, and short-form:
Outstanding Sports Program
WINNER: “Formula 1: Drive to Survive”
“100 Foot Wave”
“Big Dreams: The Little League World Series 2024”
“Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Buffalo Bills”
“Surf Girls: International”
Outstanding Children’s Program
WINNER: “Sesame Street”
“Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past”
“Phineas and Ferb”
“Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical”
“SpongeBob SquarePants”
Outstanding Short-Form Program
WINNER: “Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence”
“The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains”
“Hacks: Bit By Bit”
“Overtime with Bill Maher”
“The White Lotus: Unpacking the Episode”
Also, the producing team for “The Wizard of Oz at Sphere” have received the PGA Innovation Award, “which celebrates outstanding entertainment endeavors across VR, AR, experiential and other emerging media.” The juried award was chosen by a jury led by AGBO chief creative officer Angela Russo-Otsot, Laurel Beach CEO Joanna Popper and Baobab Studios co-founder/CEO Maureen Fan.
And Lydia Dean Pilcher (“Queen of Katwe,” “Radium Girls”) has received the Vance Van Petten Entrepreneurial Spirit Producing Award, “for her nearly two decades of work championing sustainability in film and television, including chairing the PGA’s Sustainability Task Force,” presented by Tendo Nagenda; NYU MBA/MFA grad Jessica Li recieved the Debra Hill Fellowship supporting emerging producers, presented by Selection Chairs Deniese Davis and Lucienne Papon.
The 2026 Producers Guild Awards event chairs are Mike Farah and Joe Farrell; and the ceremony is produced by Anchor Street Collective. Branden Chapman is executive producer, and Carleen Cappelletti is co-executive producer.
Source: variety.com
