Producers Guild Selects ‘Get Out’ For Its ‘Stanley Kramer’ Honor
Get Out continues its award season dominance with word that the Producers Guild of America will honor the horror drama with its 2018 Stanley Kramer Award.
The honor, established in 2002, recognizes “a production, producer or other individuals whose achievement or contribution illuminates and raises public awareness of important social issues.” It’s named for the celebrated producer-director behind such classics as The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.
Written and directed by Jordan Peele, “Get Out” tells the story of Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), who go on a weekend getaway upstate to meet Rose’s parents, Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries leads him to a truth that he could have never imagined.
The film’s producing team consists of Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Peele.
“The electrifying response to ‘Get Out’ demonstrates that the power of motion pictures to crystallize and reflect our collective social anxieties remains stronger than ever,” PGA Awards chairs Donald De Line and Amy Pascal said Wednesday in a joint statement. “It’s hard to imagine two more different sensibilities approaching the problem of race in America than Stanley Kramer and Jordan Peele, but despite the different paths their stories take, their power springs from the same outrage, fearlessness, and passion.”
The Stanley Kramer Award recipient is chosen by a seven-person committee appointed by the guild’s board of directors and operates independently of the Producers Guild Awards committee and the PGA staff.
Previous recipients of the award include “The Hunting Ground,” “An Inconvenient Truth,” “Hotel Rwanda,” “In America,” “Antwone Fisher,” “Precious,” “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” “Bully,” “Fruitvale Station,” “The Normal Heart” and “Loving.”
The 29th annual Producers Guild Awards will be handed out Saturday, Jan. 20, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
As previously announced, Ava DuVernay will receive the Visionary Award, Ryan Murphy will be presented the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television, Charles Roven will receive the David. O. Selznick Achievement Award and Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley will be presented the Milestone Award.
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