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Jason Wald has a diverse range of experience in the film industry, starting as a Coordinator in Film Finance at Cinetic Media in 2010. Jason then served as a Coordinator and later Manager in Acquisitions at Radius-TWC and The Weinstein Company from 2011 to 2016. Following this, they worked as a Consultant in Film Acquisitions at Relativity Media and WME | IMG (M2M) in 2016. From 2016 to 2021, they held various roles at Hulu, including Manager in Content Acquisition and Senior Manager in Original Film. Most recently, they worked as the Director of Acquisitions at Fox Searchlight Pictures from April to October 2021. Currently, they serve as the VP of Acquisitions & Production at NEON from November 2021 onwards.
Jason Wald attended Scarsdale High School from 2002 to 2006. From 2006 to 2010, they went on to study at the University of Pennsylvania. No information regarding their degree or field of study is available.
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In just five years, NEON has garnered 25 Academy Award® nominations, 5 wins, including Best Picture, and has grossed over $200M at the box office. The company continues to push boundaries and take creative risks on bold cinema such as Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which made history winning four Academy Awards, becoming the first non-English-language film to claim Best Picture, unanimously winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and grossing over $54M at the domestic box office. The NEON slate includes the Oscar-nominated documentaries All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Fire of Love; 2022’s highest grossing documentary, Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgan’s genre-defying film chronicling the career of David Bowie; Kore-eda’s Broker, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite); and three-time Academy Award® nominee Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, NEON’s third consecutive Palme d’Or winner. NEON has amassed a library of over 80 films, with noteworthy releases including: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton, with a successful and unprecedented “in theatres only… forever” release; Flee, which made history becoming the first film to score an impressive trifecta of Oscar® nominations; The Worst Person in The World, which was nominated for Original Screenplay and International Feature Film; Spencer, which earned Kristen Stewart an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; the record-breaking Honeyland, which is the first non-fiction feature to land Academy Award® nominations for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film in the same year; Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner, Titane; and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya, which garnered multiple Academy Award® nominations, one win for Allison Janney and amassed over $30M in domestic box office.