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Jon Bloom is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated filmmaker with extensive expertise as a director, producer, writer, cinematographer, and editor. With nearly five decades in the film industry, Bloom is a well-known expert in entertainment marketing.
An award-winning filmmaker, Jon Bloom has earned six Emmy nominations, a Clio Award along with six Clio nominations, numerous Hollywood Reporter Key Art Trailer Awards, and multiple film festival accolades. He received an Academy Award nomination as producer/director for the live-action short "Overnight Sensation," adapted from Somerset Maugham’s short story "The Colonel's Lady," starring Robert Loggia, Louise Fletcher, and Shari Belafonte. Besides the Oscar nod, the film won first-place honors at the Houston, Aspen, and American Film Festivals and is available on Apple iTunes.
Bloom served six terms as a Governor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and currently chairs the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. He was previously elected by the AMPAS Board as an Academy Officer. He has produced the Academy’s annual theatrical trailer promoting the Oscar telecast multiple times and created numerous special montages and tributes for the Academy Awards, Emmys, SAG Awards, and other televised events.
Founded in 1987, BloomFilm, his production company, delivers audio/visual marketing materials for the entertainment industry’s promotion and advertising needs. It specializes in creative development and production of theatrical and teaser trailers for theaters, broadcast TV and radio spots, special concept shoots, main title sequences, graphics, documentaries, music videos, montages, and product reels for sales purposes. Visit BloomFilm.com for more information.
BloomFilm builds on Bloom’s longstanding reputation as a premier trailer-maker, boasting an impressive portfolio of feature campaigns including Dances With Wolves, Sleeping With The Enemy, Far And Away, The Fast and The Furious, Chocolat, Flirting With Disaster, Sling Blade, Music Of The Heart, Mansfield Park, Runaway Bride, Prince Of Egypt, Diabolique, Wild America, Uncle Buck, The River Wild, Mountains Of The Moon, The Abyss, Say Anything, Working Girl, Bright Lights, Big City, Moon Over Parador, Murder In The First, Final Analysis, Toys, The Santa Clause, Sneakers, and Chicago.
Renowned for his directing skills, Bloom is highly regarded for his expertise in special shoots—from live-action sessions with major stars to tabletop cinematography, special effects, computer graphics, and trick photography. He has directed prominent actors such as Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, Darryl Hannah, Dudley Moore, Joseph Bologna, Danny Glover, James Garner, Mary Tyler Moore, and Tom Hanks.
Early in his career, Bloom worked as an assistant director to Robert Wise and Robert Altman and as an assistant editor to Francis Ford Coppola on The Godfather Part II. His formative years in film advertising include founding and leading Seiniger/Bloom Productions and Intralink, as well as producing trailers and directing behind-the-scenes documentaries for Kaleidoscope Films. During this time, he contributed to campaigns for major films including Return Of The Jedi, About Last Night, E.T., An American Tail, Throw Momma From The Train, Broadcast News, The Last Emperor, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Verdict, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Missing, The Morning After, Bladerunner, Shogun, 10, and Victor/Victoria.
