Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” won the 2021 Producers Guild Awards Wednesday, automatically rendering it the frontrunner to win Best Picture at next month’s Oscars ceremony. The winner of the PGA top prize has historically gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar. Since 1989, the PGA winner has matched up with the Oscar winner 21 out of 31 times.
While James L. Brooks teased last year that "we'll soon be seeing" Jack Nicholson, 89, act again, and that he was "reading scripts," that idea has now been shut down by his close friend Michael Douglas, 82.