19 Dec 2014 2:45 PM PT
The Producers Guild of America will honor the producers of The Normal Heart with the 2015 Stanley Kramer Award at the upcoming 26th Annual Producers Guild Awards on January 24th to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Century Plaza.
The Kramer Award was established in 2002 for achievement or contribution that illuminates and raises public awareness of important social issues. Pass recipients included The Defiant Ones, Guess Who’s coming to Dinner, On the Beach, Inherit the Wind, Hotel Rwanda, An Inconvenient Truth Antwone Fisher, Precious, Bully, In the Land of Blood and Honey and the 2014 honoree Fruitvale Station.
The award is appointed by a seven-person PGA Board which operates independent from the PGA Awards staff and committee. “The producers responsible for The Normal Heart pulled off an extraordinary feat of storytelling. The film is both a moving narrative that lends a human face to the crucial early struggles against HIV/AIDS, and a compelling call to uphold the activist legacy of its creators and inspiration. This is a remarkable piece of filmmaking, and an essential chapter in our ongoing struggle with this epidemic,” said Vance Van Petten, the national executive director of the PGA.