
Jason Blum
Producer
Born: February 20, 1969 (57 years old)
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Jason Blum (born February 20, 1969) is an American film producer and the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, the studio behind some of the most influential horror films of the 21st century. Under his leadership, Blumhouse produced the blockbuster franchises Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, and Halloween, helping redefine low-budget, high-impact genre filmmaking. Blum’s producing credits also include Sinister, Oculus, Whiplash, The Gallows, The Gift, Hush, Split, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Get Out, Happy Death Day, Upgrade, Us, The Invisible Man, Freaky, The Black Phone, M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Speak No Evil, spanning horror, thriller, and prestige drama. He has received multiple Academy Awards Best Picture nominations for Whiplash, Get Out, and BlacKkKlansman. In television, Blum won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for The Normal Heart and later earned an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for the acclaimed true-crime miniseries The Jinx.
Filmography (223)
- The Normal Heart (2014, ★ 7.7)
- Whiplash (2014, ★ 8.4)
- The Black Phone (2022, ★ 7.5)
- Get Out (2017, ★ 7.6)
- Whiplash (2013, ★ 7.8)
- Upgrade (2018, ★ 7.5)
- Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018, ★ 8.1)
- BlacKkKlansman (2018, ★ 7.5)
- The Reader (2008, ★ 7.5)
- Liberty: Mother of Exiles (2019, ★ 7.5)
- Sharp Objects (2018, ★ 7.8)
- The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015, ★ 8)
- Cold Case Files (2017, ★ 7.9)
- History's Greatest Mysteries (2020, ★ 7.8)
- Worst Ex Ever (2024, ★ 7.6)
- Nightmares of Nature (2025, ★ 7.8)
- Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity (2021, ★ 6.5)
- Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018, ★ 6.4)
- Soft & Quiet (2022, ★ 6.4)
- Sinister (2012, ★ 6.9)
- Our Father (2022, ★ 6.5)
- Totally Killer (2023, ★ 6.8)
- Insidious (2011, ★ 6.9)
- Five Nights at Freddy's (2023, ★ 7.3)
- The Lost Bus (2025, ★ 7.1)
- Split (2017, ★ 7.3)
- M3GAN 2.0 (2025, ★ 7.2)
- Haunters: The Art of the Scare (2017, ★ 6.2)
- Lawless (2012, ★ 7.1)
- The Keeping Hours (2017, ★ 7)