Jason Blum (Los Angeles, 1969) began his career as a producing director with the Malaparte theater company founded by Ethan Hawke. After a spell as co-head of the Acquisitions and Co-Productions department at Miramax Films in New York, Blum set up his own independent concern, Blumhouse Productions, which produced the world-renowned horror franchises Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious and Sinister. The first in line, Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2007), was made on a budget of only 15,000 dollars and grossed nearly 200 million worldwide, making it the most profitable in Hollywood history and setting the pattern for Blumhouse’s pioneering production model. Other Blumhouse projects include the TV drama The Normal Heart (Ryan Murphy, 2014), for which Blum won an Emmy; triple Oscar winner Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014), and, more recently, Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017), which won an Oscar for best original screenplay. During his career so far, Blum has produced more than 75 films and TV series. He also has credits for Hamlet (Michael Almereyda, 2000), Hysterical Blindness (Mira Nair, 2002), The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008), The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie, 2012), The Bay (Barry Levinson, 2012), Glass (M. Night Shyamalan, 2019) and The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, 2020). To date, Blum has received three Oscar nominations for best film as producer of Whiplash, Get Out and BlacKkKlansman, which won the Prix du Public UBS at Locarno in 2018.