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Sony Pictures Classics, Inc.
Company type
Subsidiary
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HeadquartersNew York City, U.S.
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Worldwide
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ProductsMotion pictures
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ParentSony Pictures Entertainment
Websitesonyclassics.com

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Sony Pictures Classics Inc. (also known as Sony Classics or SPC) is an American independent film production and distribution company that is an autonomous division of Sony Pictures Entertainment and part of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. It was founded in January 1992 by former Orion Classics heads Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom.[2] It distributes, produces and acquires specialty films such as documentaries, independent and arthouse films. As of 2015, Barker and Bernard are co-presidents of the division.

History

Co-founder and co-president Michael Barker

Sony Pictures Classics was formed in 1992 by Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom, and set up as an autonomous division of Sony Pictures[2] to produce, acquire and/or distribute independent films from the United States and internationally.[3]

It has released films that have won 38 Academy Awards and received 166 nominations,[4] including Best Picture nominations for I'm Still Here, The Father, Call Me By Your Name, Whiplash, Amour, Midnight in Paris, An Education, Capote, Howards End, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.[5]

SPC has a history of making reasonable investments for small films and getting a decent return.[2][6][7] It has a history of not overspending.[2][8] Its largest commercial success of the 2010s is Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), which grossed over $56.8 million in the United States, becoming Allen's highest-grossing film ever in the United States.[9]

SPC has been a pioneer in theatrical distribution. In 2001, it championed the Chinese-language film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which earned 10 nominations, the most ever for a non-English-language film (Roma would tie it in 2018), and win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and a Golden Globe in 2001. The film earned over $213 million worldwide on a $17 million budget, including $128 million in the United States as a Sony Pictures Classics release.[10]

In 2006, SPC promoted The Lives of Others to an Oscar and BAFTA, after it was rejected by the Cannes, Berlin, Venice and New York Film Festivals.[11]

Co-founder and co-president Tom Bernard

SPC occasionally agrees to release films for Sony's other film divisions; however, under its structure within Sony, none of the other divisions (including the parent company) can force SPC to release any film it does not want to release.[2][12]

In 2025, The New York Times polled over 500 filmmakers, actors, and film buffs around the world, compiling a list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century by collating voters' top ten submitted films; ten titles released by Sony Pictures Classics made the list: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, A Separation, A Prophet, Call Me By Your Name, Amélie (re-released by SPC in 2024), The Lives of Others, Toni Erdmann, Whiplash, Amour, and Volver.[13]

Film library

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Highest-grossing films

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) was the company's first film to cross the $100 million mark worldwide, followed by Kung Fu Hustle (2004), Midnight in Paris (2011), and Blue Jasmine (2013).

Highest-grossing films worldwide
Rank Title Year Gross
1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 $213,966,221[14]
2 Midnight in Paris 2011 $162,051,975[15]
3 Blue Jasmine 2013 $102,912,961[16]
4 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 $102,034,104[17]
5 House of Flying Daggers 2004 $92,863,945[18]
6 The Lives of Others 2006 $81,197,047[19]
7 To Rome with Love 2012 $74,290,305[20]
8 Talk to Her 2002 $64,826,117[21]
9 Whiplash 2014 $50,431,161[22]
10 Capote 2005 $49,924,079[23]

References

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