Aronofsky’s The Whale nominated for the Producers Guild Award
The Whale film’s director & producer, Darren Aronofsky, got the Producers Guild Award 2023 nomination along with other top producers of Avatar: The Way of Water, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Top Gun: Maverick, and others.
Other Nominees of Producers Guild Awards
With their nominations for the annual Producers Guild of America Awards, Hollywood’s top producers have chosen the year’s best movies and television shows. The diverse list includes works from Disney, A24, and several RuPaul’s Drag Race champions.
Following its Disney+ release in September, the wildly successful sequel Hocus Pocus 2, which stars Bette Midler, received a nomination in a category for streaming/televised motion pictures.
Other TV shows up for awards include The White Lotus, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, Hacks, Abbott Elementary, and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7, the first all-winners season of the Emmy-winning reality series.
10 best films nominated for PGA Award 2023
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- The Fabelmans
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Tar
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Banshees of Inisherin
- Elvis
- The Whale
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Along with the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild, the PGA, which has about 7,000 members from the film, television, and new media industries, is one of the most potent industry unions on the awards circuit. Its nominees and winners frequently reflect the top contenders, as determined by members who also voted for the Oscars.
Some Details about Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale
Darren Aronofsky, a writer, director, and producer, is renowned for his love of the weird and unexpected in his films. You can understand if you’re in for a bizarre movie, whether you’re watching the epic romance The Fountain, the psychological drama Requiem for a Dream, or the horror allegory Mother! These kinds of tales are continued in The Whale.
The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser and Sadie Sink, centers on an obese guy trying to get back in touch with his daughter after a long separation. The Whale has drawn flak for portraying an obese person—Fraser dons a fat costume for the part—and for using a straight actor, Fraser, to play a gay character.
Fraser is “a greater actor—subtler, slyer, more surreal than he has ever been,” according to Variety, which also lauded Sink’s performance. Despite the criticism surrounding the movie, the actor is a front-runner this season for several lead actor honors.
Since Fraser’s career stopped in the late 2000s, his recent re-entry into the national spotlight makes his success in the role all the more meaningful. The actor’s return to the acting world has thrilled Fraser’s fans. Brendan Fraser won the Best Actor award for The Whale at the Critic Association of Central Florida.
A gay English teacher who lives alone and struggles with extreme obesity attempts to mend fences with his teenage daughter in the movie.
The movie had its world premiere on September 4, 2022, at the Venice International Film Festival (79th), and A24 released it on December 9, 2022, in the US.
The movie had its world premiere on September 4, 2022, at the Venice International Film Festival (79th), and A24 released it on December 9, 2022, in the US. The cast’s performances, especially those of Fraser and Chau, were commended despite the mixed reviews they garnered. Fraser received nominations for the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Best Actor at the 2023s Golden Globe Awards (80th).
For devoted moviegoers interested in Fraser’s performance and whether he will leave this award season with an Oscar win.
Is The Whale available on streaming services?
Still not. The Whale is currently only shown in theatres. Recently, Aronofsky announced on Instagram that the movie would “NOT be streaming anytime soon” and urged viewers to go to the cinema to see it. There you have it, then. Your best bet is to go to your local theatre if you want to see it before the award season is over.
The Whale might be streamable later this year. However, A24 needs to have a spot where their movies are streamed consistently. Bodies Bodies Bodies from 2022 isn’t available to stream anyplace without renting it, even if you do subscribe to the service, unlike X, say, and The Green Knight, which are available to stream on Showtime and other services with a subscription. The Whale won’t be available for home viewing for some time.
