Two weeks ago, I wrote about how the Producers Guild Awards were going to clear up a confusing Oscar race and give us a real frontrunner.
I suppose they did, briefly. But the PGA winner, “The Big Short,” is hardly a secure favorite. In a wild, confusing year, that movie grabbed the top seed by winning the Producers Guild, but then couldn’t hold serve the following week at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where it lost the ensemble award to its chief competitor, “Spotlight.”
But SAG by itself wasn’t enough to make “Spotlight” a favorite — so once again, the focus shifts to the next major guild honors, the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday.