Slumdog takes producers' prize

 

The freight train that is "Slumdog Millionaire" picked up speed this weekend when it won the top honor from the Producers Guild of America.

Christian Colson received the PGA's Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year award, often a predictor of Oscar success. In early 2008, the producers of "No Country for Old Men" took  the award but the previous year, "Little Miss Sunshine" claimed the producers' honor but "The Departed" won the Academy Award as best picture.

"Slumdog" beat out "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Milk," "The Dark Knight" and "Frost/Nixon."

"WALL-E," deservedly, won for animated motion picture, nudging aside "Bolt" and "Kung Fu Panda," and "Man on Wire" took the documentary prize over "Standard Operating Procedure" and "Trouble the Water."