London, Jan 6 (ANI): Sci-fi movies ‘Avatar’, ‘Star Trek’ and ‘District 9′ are the top three films in the race to win the best picture award at the Producer’s Guild of America awards.

The group of Hollywood producers also nominated animated film ‘Up’ and Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’, reports The BBC.

Oscar favourites ‘The Hurt Locker’, ‘Precious’ and George Clooney’s ‘Up in the Air’ are also contending for the coveted award.

Movies like ‘An Education’ and ‘Invictus’ rounded up the list.

The winner will be announced on 24 January.

‘Up’, which opened last summer’s Cannes Film Festival, has also been nominated for best animation and is pitted against ‘Coraline’, ‘9′, ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ and Disney’s forthcoming ‘Princess and the Frog’.

The BBC’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s ‘Little Dorrit’ has been nominated for the award for long-form television and has been shortlisted alongside ‘Grey Gardens’, ‘Prayers for Bobby’, ‘The Prisoner’ and ‘Taking Chance’. (ANI)