Jason Blum has been named as this 12 months’s recipient of the Milestone Award from the Producers Guild of America (PGA).
The producer and CEO and founding father of Blumhouse will settle for the honour on the Producers Guild Awards ceremony on February 28 in Los Angeles.
The award recognises “people or groups who’ve made historic contributions to the leisure trade.” Previous recipients have included Louis B Mayer, Walt Disney, Steven Spielberg, Donna Langley, Ted Sarandos and Charles D King.
Blum has produced movies together with horror hits Paranormal Exercise, Insidious and The Purge. His credit additionally embrace Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and Jordan Peele’s Get Out. He has been nominated 3 times for Academy Awards and gained two Primetime Emmys.
PGA presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line commented: “Jason Blum has redefined what’s potential in unbiased filmmaking, proving that daring imaginative and prescient and artistic ingenuity can create world cultural touchstones, even with modest assets. By way of Blumhouse, he has championed fearless storytellers, nurtured recent voices, and established a physique of labor that spans a few of the most profitable and ingenious movies and collection of our time. We’re proud to recognise his outstanding contributions with the Milestone Award.”
Blum added: “I’m moved to be recognised by my friends with this 12 months’s Milestone Award. Fifteen years in the past, I used to be a struggling unbiased producer, and I might by no means have imagined receiving an honour like this. I’m grateful to Stephanie, Donald, and the PGA for this recognition. The journey right here is because of our small however mighty staff of gifted weirdos at Blumhouse, who dedicate themselves day-after-day to the concept that strangers like to be afraid collectively at the hours of darkness; to the audiences who hold exhibiting up for that have; and, in fact, to the sensible filmmakers, actors, writers, and crew who’ve entrusted us alongside the way in which.”