Producers Guild winners (FULL LIST)

Credit: PGA

ARGO, Ben Affleck's film about the Iran hostage crisis, took the huge prize at the Producers Guild of America awards ceremony earlier tonight.

An award from the Producers Guild of America is one of the most prestigious honors in film, but beyond that, the PGA also serves as a fairly incisive look at which film has the most momentum going into the Oscar race. This is because the PGA being the only other awards-giving body that utilizes the same preferential balloting techniques that the Academy has employed in recent years. The Producers Guild and Oscar match-up roughly 70% of the time, with 16 out of 23 Best Picture Oscar winners being forecasted by the PGA. Argo's win is HUGE, positioning it to be the next Driving Miss Daisy, which is one of only three films in the history of the Oscars to win Best Picture without a corresponding Best Director nomination. Can Argo really derail the Lincoln train?

Of course, I'm burying the lede here, as the PGA doesn't exist to predict the Oscars (though it's one of the few reasons anyone really pays attention to it in the online community). In reality, it's a tremendous honor in itself, recognizing not only film, but also TV and documentary filmmaking.

Full list of winners via HitFix:

Best Feature: Argo
TV Drama Series: Homeland
Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugarman
Animated Film: Wreck-it Ralph
Long-Form TV: Game Change
Children's Program: Sesame Street
Digital Series: 30 Rock: The Webisodes
TV Comedy Series: Modern Family
Competition TV: Amazing Race
Live Entertainment & Talk TV: The Colbert Report
Sports Program: Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Non-Fiction Program: American Masters

The PGA dates back to 1989, which was an interesting year, in that it was the year in which the aforementioned Driving Miss Daisy made Oscar history. Will history repeat itself? Here's the past list of PGA winners, for reference. Bold denotes a film that would go on to win the Best Picture Oscar:

1989: Driving Miss Daisy

1990: Dances with Wolves

1991: The Silence of the Lambs

1992: The Crying Game

1993: Schindler's List

1994: Forrest Gump

1995: Apollo 13

1996: The English Patient

1997: Titanic

1998: Saving Private Ryan

1999: American Beauty

2000: Gladiator

2001: Moulin Rouge!

2002: Chicago

2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2004: The Aviator

2005: Brokeback Mountain

2006: Little Miss Sunshine

2007: No Country for Old Men

2008: Slumdog Millionaire

2009: The Hurt Locker

2010: The King's Speech

2011: The Artist