My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 independent romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick and written by Nia Vardalos, who also stars in the film as Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos, a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with non-Greek upper middle class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Ian Miller. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and, at the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, and producer of Greek descent. Her most notable work is the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which was based on a one-woman stage play she dramatized and in which she starred.
Margarita Ibrahimoff, better known as Rita Wilson, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and producer. Her film appearances include Volunteers (1985), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Now and Then (1995), Jingle All the Way (1996), The Story of Us (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), and It's Complicated (2009), and she appeared in the television series The Good Wife and Girls. Wilson has performed on Broadway, and has produced several films, including My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002).
Lainie Kazan is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for St. Elsewhere and the 1993 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for My Favorite Year. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role in My Favorite Year (1982). Kazan played Maria Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding and its sequel film My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.
David Benioff is an American screenwriter and television producer, writer, and director. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known as co-creator, showrunner, and writer of Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire. He is also known for writing Troy (2004) and co-writing X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).
The 15th Producers Guild of America Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 2003, were held at The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California on January 17, 2004. The nominees were announced on January 5, 2004.
The 3rd PGA Golden Laurel Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 1991, were held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, California on March 4, 1992. The nominees were announced on January 28, 1992.
The 5th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 1993, were presented at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, California on March 2, 1994 after the winners were announced in February. The ceremony was hosted by Michael Douglas and the nominees were announced on January 19, 1994.
The 6th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 1994, were held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, California on March 8, 1995. The nominees were announced on January 26, 1995.
The 8th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 1996, were held at Universal Hilton Hotel in Hollywood, California on March 12, 1997. The motion picture nominees were announced on January 22, 1997, and the television nominees on February 20, 1997.
The 10th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 1998, were held at The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California on March 3, 1999. The nominees were announced on January 19, 1999.
The 11th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 1999, were held at The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California on March 2, 2000. The nominees were announced on January 19, 2000.
The 13th Producers Guild of America Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 2001, were held at The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California on March 3, 2002. The nominees were announced on January 10, 2002.
The 16th Producers Guild of America Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 2004, were held on January 22, 2005. The ceremony at Culver Studios in Los Angeles, California was hosted by Wayne Brady. The nominees were announced on January 5, 2005.
My Big Fat Greek Life is an American sitcom television series that ran on CBS from February 24 to April 13, 2003. The series is a continuation of the 2002 movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding and was produced by Sony Pictures Television and Tom Hanks's Playtone Productions for CBS. The two lead characters' names are changed, from Toula and Ian, to Nia and Thomas.
Playtone is an American film and television production company and record label established in 1998 by actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman.
The 18th Producers Guild of America Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 2006, were held at The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California on January 20, 2007. The nominations were announced on December 4, 2006, and January 3, 2007.
The 19th Producers Guild of America Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 2007, were held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on February 2, 2008. The nominations were announced on November 14, 2007, and January 14, 2008.
The 55th Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2003, honored the film and television best writers of 2002.
The Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, also known as the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, is one of the annual awards given by the Producers Guild of America from 1989.
