Appian Way Productions
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| Industry | Entertainment |
| Headquarters | West Hollywood, California |
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Key people
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Leonardo DiCaprio (founder) |
Appian Way Productions is a film production company in West Hollywood, California, established by actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio. The company's first film was The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004). It then released the 2004 biopic The Aviator, starring DiCaprio as Howard Hughes. The film was a critical and commercial success, and earned several Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Its following productions were released three years later—the comedy drama Gardener of Eden (2007) and the documentary The 11th Hour (2007). This was followed by the commercial successes of the psychological horror Orphan (2009), the psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010) and the dark fantasy film Red Riding Hood (2011). The company had three releases in 2013, including the crime thriller Runner Runner and the thriller film Out of the Furnace (2013), both of which performed poorly at the box-office. Appian Way released the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), a critical and commercial success, which was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Appian Way Productions was founded by Leonardo DiCaprio. Its first film was The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), starring Sean Penn as Samuel Byck who attempted to assassinate president Richard Nixon in 1974. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The company's next film was the 2004 biopic The Aviator, produced in association with Forward Pass, Intermedia, and Initial Entertainment Group. Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicted the life of Howard Hughes (DiCaprio), an aviation pioneer who became a successful film producer between the late 1920s and late 1940s while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive–compulsive disorder. Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Sukhdev Sandhu described the film as "a gorgeous tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood" even though it "tips the balance of spectacle versus substance in favour of the former". He praised Martin Scorsese's direction, DiCaprio and the supporting cast but panned Kate Beckinsale's performance. With a worldwide gross of $213.7 million against a budget of $110 million, the film proved to be a commercial success. The film earned a total of eleven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Scorsese) and Best Actor (DiCaprio), and won five of them, including a Best Supporting Actress award for Cate Blanchett.
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