Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse, is a three-time Academy Award-nominated, two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning and a three-time Peabody Award-winning producer. Blumhouse is a multimedia company regarded as the driving force in the horror renaissance. Through Blumhouse, Blum has produced over 150 movies and television series. The indie studio has also earned critical acclaim, including multiple Golden Globes, a Critics Choice Award, Emmy awards and numerous nominations. The division also produced feature-length documentaries of which have been a Sundance Audience Award winner (World Documentaries) and recipient of the prestigious duPont/Columbia School of Journalism Award. Blum has been recognized by TIME magazine’s 100 list of the world’s most influential people and has appeared several times on Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment List.” In 2019 he received the Special Achievement honors from the African American Film Critics Association, the largest body of black film critics in the world. In 2016, he received the Producer of the Year Award at CinemaCon. Jason is on the Board of The Public Theater in New York, the Sundance Institute, Vassar College and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Before founding Blumhouse, Blum served as co-head of the Acquisitions and Co-Productions department at Miramax Films in New York. He began his career as the producing director of the Malaparte Theater Company, which was founded by Ethan Hawke.