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Awards & Recognition

★Three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Picture (Whiplash, Get Out, BlacKkKlansman)

★Two-time Primetime Emmy Award winner (The Normal Heart, The Jinx)

★Three-time Peabody Award winner

★Tony Award nomination for Death Becomes Her (2024)

★Producer of the Year Award at CinemaCon (2016)

★Achievement in Film and Television award at Israel Film Festival (2018)

★TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People (2017)

★Multiple Vanity Fair New Establishment List appearances

Notable Facts

→Founded Blumhouse Productions in 2000, revolutionizing horror film production with micro-budget model

→Company has grossed over $5.7 billion at global box office with 250+ films and TV series produced

→Paranormal Activity franchise started with $15,000 budget and grossed nearly $200 million

→Board member of The Public Theater, Sundance Institute, Vassar College, and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

→Previously co-head of Acquisitions at Miramax Films under Harvey and Bob Weinstein

→Married to journalist Lauren A.E. Schuker in 2012

→Donated $10 million to Vassar College in 2022, largest gift from male alumnus

→Son of art dealer Irving Blum who owned Andy Warhol's complete Campbell's Soup Cans series

→Harvard Business School case study subject on innovative film production business model

→Born February 20, 1969 in Los Angeles

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