“Sesame Street,” “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” and “Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence” were among the early winners at the Producers Guild of America’s West Coast PGA Awards Nominations Gala on Thursday.
The bulk of the awards will be announced at the annual Producers Guild Awards on Saturday. But at Thursday’s event at the Astor in Hollywood, four awards were announced. The children’s and sports award winners were originally scheduled to be announced at an event in New York on Monday, but the event was canceled due to weather.
The 2026 Producers Guild Awards winners in the Sports, Children’s and Short Film categories are:
excellent sports program
Winner: “Formula 1: Drive for Survival”
“100 foot waves”
“Dream Big: Little League World Series 2024”
“Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Buffalo Bills”
“Surf Girls: International”
excellent children’s program
Winner: “Sesame Street”
“LEGO Star Wars: Rebuilding the Galaxy – Fragments of the Past”
“Phineas and Ferb”
“Snoopy Presents Summer Musical”
“SpongeBob SquarePants”
excellent short program
Winner: “Adolescence: How to Make Adolescence”
“The Daily Show: Desi Riddick Foxplains”
“Hack: Little by little”
“Overtime with Bill Maher”
“White Lotus: Unraveling the Episode”
The team behind “The Wizard of Oz at Sphere” also won the PGA Innovation Award, which “recognizes outstanding entertainment efforts across VR, AR, experiential and other emerging media.” The award was chosen by a jury led by AGBO Chief Creative Officer Angela Russo-Otsotto, Laurel Beach CEO Joanna Popper, and Baobab Studio Co-Founder and CEO Maureen Huang.
And Lydia Dean Pilcher (Queen of Kathu, Radium Girls) received the Vance Van Petten Entrepreneurship Producing Award presented by Tendo Najenda “in recognition of her nearly 20 years of work championing sustainability in film and television, including serving as chair of the PGA’s Sustainability Task Force.” New York University MBA/MFA graduate Jessica Lee was awarded the Debra Hill Fellowship to Support Emerging Producers, presented by selection committee chairs Denise Davis and Lucienne Papon.
The 2026 Producers Guild Awards event chairs are Mike Farrar and Joe Farrell. and the ceremony will be produced by Anchor Street Collective. Branden Chapman will serve as executive producer and Carlene Cappelletti will serve as co-executive producer.
