Producers Guild of America Awards 1996

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

Film

• 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

• Television Producer of the Year Award in Episodic:
  • Law & Order - Dick Wolf, Edwin Sherin, Michael S. Chernuchin, René 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)

Other

• Honorary Lifetime Membership Award:
  • Norman Felton