The King’s Speech has taken home the top movie prize at the 2011 Producers Guild Awards.
The royal drama, starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, was handed the ‘Darryl F. Zanuck Award For Outstanding Producer Of Theatrical Motion Pictures’ at last night’s ceremony.
The King’s Speech producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin won the trophy ahead of the teams behind films such as The Social Network, Black Swan and Inception.
In the last ten years, the PGA winner has repeated its success at the Oscars 60% of the time to scoop ‘Best Picture’.
The PGA’s animation award went to Toy Story 3‘s Darla K. Anderson, who triumphed over How To Train Your Dragon and Despicable Me.
Waiting For ‘Superman’, which examines the failing American schools system, won the documentary prize.