At the 23rd annual Producers Guild of America Awards, which took place last night in Beverly Hills, the presumptive best picture Oscar frontrunner The Artist passed its biggest test yet by holding off nine other films —Bridesmaids, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo,The Help, The Ides of March, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, and War Horse — to win the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures (aka “the PGA Award”), the guild’s top prize. (The honor was accepted by the film’s producer, Thomas Langmann.)