娱乐英语新闻:Producers Guild scheduled 2012 Awards for Jan. 21

LOS ANGELES, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The 23rd annual Producers Guild Awards, one of the most accurate and reliable predictors of Academy Awards success, will be held on Jan. 21, 2012, in West Los Angeles, California, the Producers Guild of America(PGA) announced Thursday.

This year's awards ceremony, honoring excellence in motion picture and television production, were originally slated to be held at the Hyatt Regency, but a continuing labor dispute at the hotel forced the PGA to move the event to the Beverly Hilton instead.

This year, the PGA awarded "The King's Speech" with its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. The film also went on to claim the eventual Oscar triumphs. Of the PGA winners, more than two-thirds have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

Originally known as Golden Laurel Awards, the awards were first handed out in 1990 and were renamed the Producers Guild Awards in 2002.

The awards were generally presented after the Golden Globes but before the Directors Guild, Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

At the awards ceremony which takes place as the first of the major Hollywood guild honors, PGA hands out three film awards (Theatrical Motion Picture, Animated Theatrical Motion Picture and Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture), five television awards and an array of special honors.