"Avatar," "Up" amid Producers Guild nominees

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Box appointment hits "Avatar," "Star Trek," "Up" and "District 9" denticulate nominations on Tuesday for the Producers Brotherhood of America Awards, a chase that generally foretells the champ of the best account Oscar.

The brotherhood took its cue from the Academy of Motion Account Arts and Sciences by absolute 10 films, instead of the acceptable five, back it appear its nominees. For the aboriginal time in decades, the Academy is allotment 10 best-picture nominees this year in a bid to addition ratings for the telecast.

The added contenders for the PGA accolade are: "An Education," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," "Invictus," "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" and "Up in the Air." Pixar's "Up" became the aboriginal activated blur to account a nomination.

Notable movies that bootless to accomplish the cut included female-oriented entertainments like "Julie & Julia" and "It's Complicated," the agreeable "Nine" and specialty book like "A Serious Man," "A Single Man" and "Crazy Heart."

The awards will be presented January 24 at the Hollywood Palladium. In accomplished year, the PGA nominations accept served as harbingers of the closing Oscar nominations for best picture, but it charcoal to be apparent whether that will authority accurate in the new age of ten nominees. Oscar nominations will be appear on February 2, with the awards commemoration set for March 7.