Sony Pictures Classics
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Division of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group | |
Industry | Entertainment |
Predecessor | Embassy Pictures |
Founded | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (1992) |
Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Key people
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Products | Motion pictures |
Owner | Sony |
Number of employees
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25[1] |
Parent | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
Website | www |
Sony Pictures Classics is a film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment founded in 1992 by former Orion Classics heads Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom (similar to Fox Searchlight Pictures and Focus Features).[2] It distributes, produces and acquires specialty films (especially of documentaries, independent films and art films) from the United States and around the world. As of 2015, Barker and Bernard are co-presidents of the division.
Contents
History
Sony Pictures Classics was founded on January 1, 1992, by Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom, set up as an autonomous division of Sony Pictures Entertainment.[2] The model of the company is to produce, acquire and/or distribute independent films from the United States and internationally.[3]
Sony Pictures Classics has a history of making reasonable investments for small films, and getting a decent return.[2][4][5] It has a history of not overspending.[2][6] Its largest commercial success in recent years is Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), which grossed over $56 million in the U.S., becoming Allen's highest-grossing film ever in the United States.
Occasionally, Sony Pictures Classics agrees to release films for all other departments of Sony; However, under Sony Pictures Classics' contract with Sony, all other departments of Sony (including the parent company) cannot force Sony Pictures Classics to release any film that the division does not want to release.[2][7]
Select releases
1990s
Release Date | Title |
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March 13, 1992 | Howard's End |
September 25, 1992 | Danzon |
October 30, 1992 | Van Gogh |
December 23, 1992 | Indochine |
March 3, 1993 | Olivier, Olivier |
April 16, 1993 | The Story of Qiu Ju |
May 28, 1993 | The Long Day Closes |
June 9, 1993 | Orlando |
June 25, 1993 | Jacquot de Nantes |
August 6, 1993 | House of Angels |
December 21, 1993 | Faraway, So Close! |
December 23, 1993 | The Accompanist |
February 25, 1994 | Belle Époque |
March 31, 1994 | Germinal |
April 15, 1994 | In Custody |
June 3, 1994 | The Slingshot |
July 15, 1994 | Mi Vida Loca |
October 19, 1994 | Vanya on 42nd Street |
October 21, 1994 | I Don't Want to Talk About It |
December 22, 1994 | A Man of No Importance |
February 17, 1995 | Window to Paris |
March 8, 1995 | Martha & Ethel |
March 17, 1995 | Farinelli |
April 21, 1995 | Burnt by the Sun |
April 28, 1995 | Crumb |
May 19, 1995 | Amateur |
May 26, 1995 | A Pure Formality |
June 8, 1995 | Anne Frank Remembered |
June 16, 1995 | Wings of Courage (IMAX) |
June 23, 1995 | Love & Human Remains |
June 30, 1995 | Safe |
July 21, 1995 | Living in Oblivion |
September 15, 1995 | Mute Witness |
September 27, 1995 | Persuasion |
October 20, 1995 | Across the Sea of Time |
December 15, 1995 | The City of Lost Children |
December 22, 1995 | Shanghai Triad |
January 24, 1996 | Caught |
March 8, 1996 | The Flower of My Secret |
March 15, 1996 | The Celluloid Closet |
March 29, 1996 | Denise Calls Up |
May 3, 1996 | Madame Butterfly |
May 17, 1996 | Ashes of Time |
May 24, 1996 | Welcome to the Dollhouse |
June 21, 1996 | Lone Star |
July 26, 1996 | Manny & Lo |
September 13, 1996 | Brother of Sleep |
October 9, 1996 | Beautiful Thing |
December 20, 1996 | The Whole Wide World |
December 25, 1996 | Thieves |
January 31, 1997 | Waiting for Guffman |
February 7, 1997 | SubUrbia |
April 23, 1997 | A Chef in Love |
May 2, 1997 | Broken English |
June 20, 1997 | Dream with the Fishes |
When the Cat's Away | |
August 1, 1997 | In the Company of Men |
September 17, 1997 | The Myth of Fingerprints |
October 3, 1997 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control |
November 14, 1997 | The Tango Lesson |
December 26, 1997 | Afterglow |
Ma vie en rose | |
February 6, 1998 | Nil by Mouth |
March 27, 1998 | Character |
Men with Guns | |
April 3, 1998 | The Spanish Prisoner |
May 1, 1998 | A Friend of the Deceased |
Wilde | |
May 22, 1998 | The Opposite of Sex |
June 19, 1998 | Henry Fool |
Marie from the Bay of Angels | |
July 2, 1998 | Mark Twain's America in 3D (IMAX) |
July 10, 1998 | Whatever |
July 31, 1998 | The Governess |
November 13, 1998 | Dancing at Lughnasa |
November 20, 1998 | Central Station |
December 18, 1998 | The General |
February 12, 1999 | Tango |
April 2, 1999 | The Dreamlife of Angels |
April 16, 1999 | SLC Punk |
The Winslow Boy | |
May 7, 1999 | This Is My Father |
May 28, 1999 | The Loss of Sexual Innocence |
June 18, 1999 | Run Lola Run |
July 30, 1999 | Twin Falls Idaho |
October 22, 1999 | One Day in September |
November 5, 1999 | American Movie |
December 17, 1999 | The Emperor and the Assassin |
December 29, 1999 | The Third Miracle |
2000s
Release Date | Title |
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February 18, 2000 | Not One Less |
February 25, 2000 | Mifune's Last Song |
March 10, 2000 | Sweet and Lowdown |
March 31, 2000 | All About My Mother |
The Color of Paradise | |
April 7, 2000 | Me Myself I |
May 5, 2000 | Est - Ouest |
May 12, 2000 | Bossa Nova |
May 26, 2000 | Kikujiro |
June 9, 2000 | Groove |
June 28, 2000 | Trixie |
July 7, 2000 | Shower |
August 4, 2000 | The Tao of Steve |
August 25, 2000 | Solomon & Gaenor |
September 15, 2000 | Goya in Bordeaux |
September 29, 2000 | The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy |
October 13, 2000 | Just Looking |
December 8, 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
December 22, 2000 | The House of Mirth |
January 22, 2001 | Haiku Tunnel |
February 6, 2001 | Pollock |
March 2, 2001 | Me You Them |
April 6, 2001 | Brother |
Shadow Magic | |
April 27, 2001 | The Luzhin Defence |
The Princess and the Warrior | |
June 8, 2001 | Divided We Fall |
June 15, 2001 | The Road Home |
July 6, 2001 | The Vertical Ray of the Sun |
July 27, 2001 | Jackpot |
September 29, 2001 | Who Knows? |
October 5, 2001 | Grateful Dawg |
November 21, 2001 | The Devil's Backbone |
December 7, 2001 | Last Orders |
December 28, 2001 | Dark Blue World |
January 25, 2002 | Beijing Bicycle |
March 15, 2002 | Pauline and Paulette |
March 22, 2002 | Son of the Bride |
April 5, 2002 | Crush |
April 19, 2002 | Nine Queens |
May 8, 2002 | Lagaan |
May 10, 2002 | The Lady and the Duke |
May 20, 2002 | Dogtown and Z-Boys |
July 5, 2002 | Thirteen Conversations About One Thing |
July 12, 2002 | My Wife Is an Actress |
July 26, 2002 | Happy Times |
August 9, 2002 | Secret Ballot |
August 30, 2002 | Mad Love |
September 13, 2002 | Quitting |
October 18, 2002 | Auto Focus |
November 22, 2002 | Talk to Her |
December 20, 2002 | Spider |
December 30, 2002 | Love Liza |
January 17, 2003 | Big Shot's Funeral |
January 24, 2003 | Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary |
February 14, 2003 | All the Real Girls |
March 7, 2003 | Laurel Canyon |
April 4, 2003 | The Man Without a Past |
Levity | |
April 18, 2003 | Winged Migration |
May 2, 2003 | Owning Mahowny |
May 23, 2003 | Respiro |
June 20, 2003 | The Legend of Suriyothai |
July 11, 2003 | The Cuckoo |
July 24, 2003 | Masked and Anonymous |
August 29, 2003 | Once Upon a Time in the Midlands |
September 26, 2003 | My Life Without Me |
November 26, 2003 | The Triplets of Belleville |
December 3, 2003 | Monsieur Ibrahim |
December 12, 2003 | The Statement |
December 19, 2003 | The Fog of War |
December 25, 2003 | The Company |
February 27, 2004 | Good Bye Lenin! |
March 12, 2004 | Broken Wings |
March 19, 2004 | Broken Wings |
April 2, 2004 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring |
April 16, 2004 | Young Adam |
May 14, 2004 | Carandiru |
May 28, 2004 | Baadasssss! |
The Mother | |
June 18, 2004 | Facing Windows |
July 9, 2004 | Riding Giants |
July 16, 2004 | Touch of Pink |
Zhou Yu's Train | |
July 28, 2004 | She Hate Me |
September 3, 2004 | Warriors of Heaven and Earth |
September 17, 2004 | Head in the Clouds |
Želary | |
October 15, 2004 | Being Julia |
October 22, 2004 | Lightning in a Bottle |
November 19, 2004 | Bad Education |
December 3, 2004 | House of Flying Daggers |
December 17, 2004 | Imaginary Heroes |
December 29, 2004 | The Merchant of Venice |
February 25, 2005 | Up and Down |
March 11, 2005 | In My Country |
April 1, 2005 | Look at Me |
April 8, 2005 | Kung Fu Hustle |
April 1, 2005 | Look at Me |
April 29, 2005 | 3-Iron |
May 13, 2005 | Layer Cake |
May 27, 2005 | Saving Face |
August 5, 2005 | 2046 |
August 5, 2005 | Junebug |
August 26, 2005 | The Memory of a Killer |
September 16, 2005 | Thumbsucker |
September 30, 2005 | Capote |
- 2006
- Caché
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston
- American Hardcore
- Curse of the Golden Flower
- Driving Lessons
- L'Enfant (The Child)
- Friends With Money
- The House of Sand
- Joyeux Noël
- The Quiet (co-release with Destination Films)
- Quinceañera
- Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
- Volver
- Why We Fight
- Who Killed the Electric Car?
- 2007
- Black Book
- Interview
- Jindabyne
- The Jane Austen Book Club
- My Kid Could Paint That
- The Lives of Others
- Paprika (co-release with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions)
- Persepolis
- Sleuth
- The Valet
- Youth Without Youth
- 2008
- Ashes of Time Redux
- The Band's Visit
- Brick Lane
- CJ7 (co-release with Columbia Pictures Asia)
- The Class
- The Counterfeiters
- Frozen River
- I Served the King of England
- It Might Get Loud
- I've Loved You So Long
- Married Life (co-release with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions)
- Rachel Getting Married
- Redbelt
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Synecdoche, New York
- The Wackness
- 2009
- Adoration
- Broken Embraces
- Coco Before Chanel
- The Damned United (co-release with Columbia Pictures)
- Easy Virtue
- An Education
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (co-release with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions)
- Lorna's Silence
- Moon (co-release with Stage 6 Films)
- O' Horten
- Paris 36
- Rudo y Cursi
- Soul Power
- Sugar
- The White Ribbon
2010s
- 2010
- Animal Kingdom
- Another Year
- Chloe (co-release with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions)
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
- Get Low
- Inside Job
- The Last Station
- Lebanon
- Made in Dagenham
- Mother and Child
- Please Give
- A Prophet (Un Prophete)
- The Secret in Their Eyes
- Tamara Drewe
- Wild Grass
- A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop
- You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
- 2011
- Barney's Version
- Carnage
- A Dangerous Method
- The Guard
- Higher Ground
- In a Better World
- Incendies
- Life, Above All
- Midnight in Paris
- Neil Young Journeys
- Of Gods and Men
- POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (co-release with Stage 6 Films)
- Restless (co-release with Columbia Pictures)
- A Separation
- The Skin I Live In
- Take Shelter
- Winter in Wartime
- 2012
- Amour
- Celeste and Jesse Forever
- Chicken with Plums
- Damsels in Distress
- Darling Companion
- Footnote
- In Darkness
- Neil Young Journeys
- The Raid: Redemption (co-release with Stage 6 Films)
- Rust and Bone
- Smashed
- Searching for Sugar Man
- To Rome with Love
- West of Memphis
- Where Do We Go Now?
- 2013
- Austenland
- At Any Price
- Before Midnight
- Blue Jasmine
- The Company You Keep
- Fill the Void
- The Gatekeepers
- I'm So Excited
- The Invisible Woman
- Kill Your Darlings
- Love Is All You Need
- No
- The Past
- The Patience Stone
- Wadjda
- 2014
- For No Good Reason
- Foxcatcher (co-production with Annapurna Pictures)
- Island Dreams
- Jodorowsky's Dune
- Land Ho!
- Leviathan
- Love Is Strange
- The Lunchbox
- Magic in the Moonlight
- Mr. Turner
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- The Raid 2 (co-release with Stage 6 Films)
- Still Alice
- Third Person
- Tim's Vermeer
- Whiplash
- 2015
- Aloft
- Coming Home
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl
- Grandma
- Irrational Man
- The Lady in the Van
- Merchants of Doubt
- Red Army
- Saint Laurent
- The Salt of the Earth
- Son of Saul
- Truth
- Wild Tales
- 2016
- The Bronze
- I Saw the Light
- Maggie's Plan
- The Meddler
- Miles Ahead
- Equity
- Julieta
- Elle
- Toni Erdmann
- The Red Turtle
See also
- Mongrel Media, the exclusive Canadian distributor for Sony Pictures Classics
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External links
- Pages with broken file links
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Sony subsidiaries
- Columbia TriStar
- Film distributors of the United States
- Film production companies of the United States
- Companies based in Los Angeles, California
- Companies based in New York City
- American companies established in 1991
- 1991 establishments in California