Producers Guild of America Awards 1996

8th Producers Guild of America Awards

March 12, 1997

Best Producer - Motion Picture:
The English Patient

The 8th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, given at the Universal City Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA on 12 March 1997, honored the best film and television producers of 1996.

Winners

Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award:
- The English Patient - Saul Zaentz
Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures:
- Mission: Impossible - Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner
Lifetime Achievement Award:
- Billy Wilder
Hall of Fame - Motion Pictures:
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- All About Eve (1950)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)

Television Producer of the Year Award in Episodic:
- Law & Order - Dick Wolf, Edwin Sherin, Michael S. Chernuchin, Rene Balcer, Ed Zuckerman, Arthur W. Forney, Gardner Stern, Jeffrey M. Hayes, Lewis Gould, Billy Fox and Jeremy R. Littman
Television Producer of the Year Award in Longform:
- Prime Suspect 4: The Lost Child - Rebecca Eaton, Sally Head, Paul Marcus and Brian Park
Most Promising Producer in Television:
- Touched by an Angel and Promised Land - Martha Williamson
Lifetime Achievement Award:
- Edgar J. Scherick
Hall of Fame - Television Programs:
- Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
- Holocaust (1978)
- The Missiles of October (1974)

Producers Guild of America Awards

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