Producers Guild scheduled 2012 Awards for Jan. 21

    LOS ANGELES, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The 23rd annual Producers Guild¹ Awards, one of the most accurate and reliable predictors of Academy Awards success, will be held on Jan. 21, 2012, in West Los Angeles, California, the Producers Guild of America(PGA) announced Thursday.
    This year's awards ceremony, honoring excellence(杰出卓越) in motion picture and television production, were originally slated² to be held at the Hyatt Regency, but a continuing labor³ dispute at the hotel forced the PGA to move the event to the Beverly Hilton instead.
    This year, the PGA awarded "The King's Speech" with its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical⁴ Motion Pictures. The film also went on to claim the eventual⁵ Oscar triumphs. Of the PGA winners, more than two-thirds have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
    Originally known as Golden Laurel Awards, the awards were first handed out in 1990 and were renamed the Producers Guild Awards in 2002.
    The awards were generally presented after the Golden Globes but before the Directors Guild, Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
    At the awards ceremony which takes place as the first of the major Hollywood guild honors, PGA hands out three film awards (Theatrical Motion Picture, Animated⁶ Theatrical Motion Picture and Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture), five television awards and an array of special honors.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 guild   

n.行会，同业公会，协会

参考例句：

• He used to be a member of the Writers' Guild of America.他曾是美国作家协会的一员。
• You had better incorporate the firm into your guild.你最好把这个公司并入你的行业协会。

2 slated   

用石板瓦盖( slate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Yuki is working up an in-home phonics program slated for Thursdays, and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime. Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课。我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语。
• Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. 布罗姆菲尔德被提名为美国农业部长。

3 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

4 theatrical   

adj.剧场的，演戏的；做戏似的，做作的

参考例句：

• The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.最后一场缺乏戏剧效果，叫人失望。
• She always makes some theatrical gesture.她老在做些夸张的手势。

5 eventual   

adj.最后的，结局的，最终的

参考例句：

• Several schools face eventual closure.几所学校面临最终关闭。
• Both parties expressed optimism about an eventual solution.双方对问题的最终解决都表示乐观。

6 animated   

adj.生气勃勃的，活跃的，愉快的

参考例句：

• His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
• We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。