Best Picture Oscar?

Not so fast, Ronnie.

Producers Guild Awards 2011 host Judd Apatow slams Ricky Gervais.

"King's Speech" wins top prize

BY Soraya Roberts
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Judd Apatow used the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday to slam Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais.

While hosting the PGAs -- in which "The King's Speech" caused a major upset by beating out Social Network for the top prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award -- the producer behind "Knocked Up" and "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" told the crowd he thought the British comedian was "mean" last weekend.

Prior to the un-televised ceremony, Apatow asked his Twitter fans for jokes that "they think are better than Ricky Gervais'," promising to read them and the joke writer's name at the PGAs.

Several fans took him up on the stunt -- though he later admitted that he "spent days fanning controversy to help ratings for a show not being televised" -- including "Lost" creator Damon Lindelof.

"Hey Folks! Just flew in from a screening of 'Black Swan,'" Lindelof tweeted, "And, boy, are my arms ready to masturbate, then stab, Mila Kunis."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apatow returned the favor on Saturday by defending "Lost" in light of Gervais' jokes about the show.

"He had that joke about the guy on 'Lost' [Jorge Garcia]," Apatow told the PGAs crowd. "He said he ate everybody else. Let's be honest: Ricky Gervais just lost weight. Even now, he's four pounds away from not being allowed to do a joke like that. Did he lose weight just to make fat jokes? You think that's how mean he is?"

Apatow also addressed the joke about Tim Allen's career, stating that "we all look like a piece of s--- standing next to Tom Hanks."

In an ironic turn of events, Gervais took to his blog this weekend to ask, "I can't find these people who were supposedly offended. Who are they? Do they actually exist?"

But even without the Gervais theme, the PGAs would have surprised Hollywood big wigs. While "The Social Network" was considered a favorite to win top prize after taking best picture at the Golden Globes and the Critics' Choice awards, its loss at the PGAs puts it ahead of the game to win the Oscar.

According to usatoday.com, for the past 21 years, the PGA best picture winner has matched the Oscar best picture winner 14 times, including over the last three years.

The Academy Award nominations will be announced on Tuesday morning.

Other winners at the 22nd Annual PGAs included "Toy Story 3" for best animatured feature, "Mad Men" for best TV drama series and "Modern Family" for best comedy series



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