Written by Kianna Best on Sep 16, 2024. Posted in Awards and Festivals

2024 winners announced for PGGB Awards

The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) have announced the six winners for their biennial awards on 14 September. The teams of Supacell and Wonka were amongst the winners of the night, as well as David Heyman who took home The PGGB Contribution to the Industry Award 2024.  The evening celebrating the organisation’s members and their achievements in the UK film and HETV industry, was hosted by presenter and actor Patrick Kielty at The Grove Hotel in Hertfordhshire.

 

 

“Our PGGB members are best in class,” Lyndsay Duthie, CEO of PGGB commented. “This wealth of below-the-line talent is the bedrock of our film and television industry and it’s their hard work and skill that creates the first class reputation the UK has garnered. Our 2024 awards are also an opportunity to acknowledge the incredible contribution producer David Heyman has made and we celebrate him with our Contribution to the Industry accolade.”

 

“We are delighted to continue our support of The Production Guild of Great Britain and its biennial Awards,” commented Emily Stillman, senior vice president of Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, headline sponsor of the awards. “As we continue to see the UK remaining the first choice for so many filmmakers, it’s important to recognise and celebrate the achievements of the talented individuals in production, post-production and accounts for their contributions in bringing some of the best film and TV shows to life on our screens.”

 

 

This year, Wonka took home the Production Team of the Year-Film award. The award sponsored by Panavision celebrated a number of PGGB members involved in the production, recognising their commitment to sustainable efforts on set as well as their ability to provide cohesion on such a big budget feature film. On the HETV front, Netflix’s Supacell also took home a Production Team of the Year award for their deliverance of unique opportunities for cast and crew members of underserved and often overlooked communities by the industry and projects of this scale.

 

“Our PGGB Awards are a celebration of the tremendous and inspiring achievements of our membership and those who are the backbone of the UK film and television industry,” Bianca Gavin PGGB chair added. “As Chair, I am proud to highlight these contributions: our industry is built on collaboration, and we all benefit from the exceptional work of these individuals.”

 

The Inspiration award wen to Georgette Turner, known for her work on projects such as Wonder Woman, The Little Mermaid, Fantastic Beats: The Secrets of Dumbledore, The Boys in the Boat, Edge of Tomorrow, and Austin. Valeria Bullo took home the award for Diversity and Inclusion Champion, founder of the Cinemama’s initiative, a female-led community for mothers working in the screen industries. The Spotlight on New Talent award was presented to Marc Ronnie who has worked across production and accounting departments, as well as assisting action props on a Wes Anderson project.

 

 

UK producer Dabid Heyman of Heyday Films received the PGGB award for Contribution to the Industry. With credits including the Harry Potter franchise as well as Wonka, and the Paddington movies, Heyman’s experience has built a solid reputation making him the ideal celebrant for the award. Heyman's involvement in the industry has seen significant work with some of the sectors biggest icons including Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, as well as the star studded cast of Barbie which revived the doll for a new generation of consumers.

 

On receiving the award, Heyman commented: “I really believe that here in the UK, we have the best of the best. We have incredible actors, directors, writers, people in production, locations, visual effects, finance and we have the world’s best crews in general. Each department is integral to making any film successful and I would not be receiving this award without the help and support of all the remarkable and inspiring people behind the camera who I have had the good fortune to work with.

 

This has been a really challenging period for the film and television industries in the UK—we’ve had COVID, we’ve had the strikes and the economy in general has been struggling, to put it mildly. But I feel we’re turning the corner. In the next year, I think more productions will start up, more productions will come to the UK, because it’s the best place in the world to make films and TV shows. That said, we have to continue to nurture the next generation of people coming into the industry. We need education, schools and training programmes and we need those already working in the industry to support, train, mentor and ultimately employ young people. It is also vital that our sets are more diverse and reflect the society we live in. If we can do that, the future will truly be bright.”

 

 

Images courtesy of PGGB