8th Golden Laurel Awards

8th Annual Golden Laurel Awards
8th Annual Golden Laurel Awards
Date	March 12, 1997
Location	Universal Hilton Hotel, Hollywood, California
Country	United States
Presented by	Producers Guild of America
Highlights
Best Producer(s) Motion Picture:	The English Patient – Saul Zaentz

The 8th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 1996, were held at Universal Hilton Hotel in Hollywood, California on March 12, 1997.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The motion picture nominees were announced on January 22, 1997, and the television nominees on February 20, 1997.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Winners and nominees

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
The English Patient – Saul Zaentz Shine – Jane Scott Fargo – Ethan Coen Hamlet – David Barron The People vs. Larry Flynt – Oliver Stone, Janet Yang and Michael Hausman

Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television
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
Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
Prime Suspect: The Lost Child – Rebecca Eaton, Sally Head, Paul Marcus and Brian Park

Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Picture
Billy Wilder
Lifetime Achievement Award in Television
Edgar J. Scherick
Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures
Mission: Impossible – Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner
Most Promising Producer in Television
Touched by an Angel and Promised Land – Martha Williamson
Honorary Lifetime Membership Award
Norman Felton
Visionary Award – Theatrical Motion Pictures
The English Patient – Saul Zaentz
Visionary Award – Television
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – Blaine Baggett, Jay Winter, and Carl Byker

Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures
12 Angry Men (1957) All About Eve (1950) A Place in the Sun (1951)
Hall of Fame – Television Programs
Eleanor and Franklin (1976) Holocaust (1978) The Missiles of October (1974)

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^ Snow, Shauna (January 23, 1997). "Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
^ Johnson, Ted (February 20, 1997). "Producers Guild unveils TV noms". Variety. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
^ "PGA Award Winners 1990–2010 – Producers Guild of America". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved August 27, 2017.