Jason Blum, founder/CEO of Blumhouse, is a three-time Academy Award®-nominated, two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning, and three-time Peabody Award-winning producer. Blumhouse is a film, television and gaming company regarded as the driving force in horror. Blum has produced iconic film franchises like Halloween, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Five Nights at Freddy’s The Black Phone, and The Purge, among others. Blum’s additional feature film credits include, but are not limited to: Glass, Split and The Visit from M. Night Shyamalan; Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash; Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman; and Get Out from Jordan Peele, recently named one of the Top 10 films of the 21st Century by The New York Times. Blum has been recognized by the TIME100 and Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” List. In 2019 he received Special Achievement honors from the African American Film Critics Association and was named to the Annenberg Initiative’s first-ever Inclusion List as one of the Top Inclusive Producers from 2019-2022, with three films appearing on the list of Top 100 Most Inclusive Films. In 2026, he will receive the Milestone Award from the Producers Guild of America. Jason is on the board of The Public Theater in New York, the Sundance Institute, Vassar College, the American Cinematheque, and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
