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“Modern Family” wins Producers Guild of America prize; “The King’s Speech” takes best picture

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ABC’s Modern Family, which includes in its ensemble married gay couple Cameron and Mitchell, won the best comedy series award at last night’s Producers Guild of America Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The award, named in honor of the late Danny Thomas, went to producers Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Morton, Dan O’Shannon, Jason Winer, Bill Wrubel and Danny Zuker.

The show had lost the Golden Globe Award last week to Glee but is the reigning Emmy winner.

AMC’s Mad Men, which wrote out its gay character of Salvatore last season, won the PGA prize for best dramatic series.

Actor Sean Penn, who won the Oscar in 2009 for his portrayal of gay activist Harvey Milk, was honored by the Producers Guild with the Stanley Kramer Award for his work in social issues, including his recent relief efforts in earthquake-struck Haiti.

Also honored last night was openly gay producer Scott Rudin who was presented with the the coveted David O. Selznick Achievement Award. But Rudin’s film, The Social Network, lost out in the best picture category to The King’s Speech. [Other best picture nominees were: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The Town, Toy Story 3, and True Grit.]

“Every year you get judged on the quality of the movies you’ve made that year,” Rudin told Variety in an interview published prior to the ceremony. “But there’s something very satisfying, on a much larger level, about people looking at your body of work and saying, ‘We like this,’ after 30 years of producing movies. It’s not ‘you made a good movie this year.’ It’s that you’ve made enough they want to recognize it.”

As a Selznick recipient, Rudin follows a long list including Stanley Kramer, Saul Zaentz, Clint Eastwood, Billy Wilder, Robert Evans, Brian Grazer, Roger Corman, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall and last year’s recipient, Pixar’s John Lasseter.

Other winners: Toy Story 3 won for best animated film, HBO’s The Pacific won for best TV movie or miniseries, Waiting for Superman took best documentary honors, and Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report won for top live entertainment or reality show.

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