Producers Guild honours 'No Country'

No Country for Old Men has won top honours at this year's Producers Guild of America awards ceremony.

The Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award went to Scott Rudin and Joel and Ethan Coen, the brothers who directed and produced it.

Among its competitors were There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

No Country has already picked up several awards this year and is nominated for eight Academy Awards.

At the Producers Guild event on Saturday night the award for television drama went to The Sopranos and the comedy series title to 30 Rock.

Brad Lewis won in the animation category with Ratatouille and Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara took theatrical documentary for Sicko.

Long-form television honours went to Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, non-fiction television to Discovery Channel's Planet Earth and live entertainment/competition to The Colbert Report.