British film production company
Passion Pictures Industry Animation Film production Founded 1987; 37 years ago (1987 ) Founders Andrew Ruhemann Alan Dewhurst Area served
Website passion-pictures .com
Passion Pictures is a British film production company established by Andrew Ruhemann in 1987. The company has studios in London , Melbourne , Paris , Toronto , and New York City .
Film production
The company's core business is in commercial and animation output, which includes work for Cartoon Network , music videos for Gorillaz , and the Compare the Market.com commercial campaign featuring Aleksandr Orlov (meerkat) . Passion Australia produced The Lost Thing , directed by Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan , which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2011.[1] [2]
The department's first film, One Day in September , won an Academy Award in 2000.[3] [4] They have since been involved in the 2013 Oscar-winning Searching for Sugar Man ,[5] [6] 2015's Listen to Me Marlon [7] and 2016's Oscar-nominated Pear Cider and Cigarettes .[8] [9]
In 2017, the company produced the Netflix docuseries Five Came Back based on the book by Mark Harris . They also work on 101 Dalmatian Street .[10] Its Passion Planet subsidiary produces nature documentaries such as The Serengeti Rules .[citation needed ]
Passion Animation Studios created several promotional cinematic for the computer game League of Legends .[11]
In 2020, Passion Paris placed second at the Berlin Music Video Awards in the Best Animation category for S+C+A+R+R - "The Rest Of My Days" music video.[12] In 2021, the production company received two nominations for Best Animation by the Berlin Music Video Awards, for their work on the music video "I Had To Leave" by S+C+A+R+R[13] and "Moving Men" by MYD .[14] Passion Pictures produced the 2021 documentary Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In .[15]
References
^ "The 83rd Academy Awards | 2011" . Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ " 'The Lost Thing' winning Best Animated Short Film" , Oscars on YouTube, 2011-03-04.
^ "One Day in September (1999)" . Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ "Documentary Winners: 2000 Oscars" . YouTube.
^ Bernstein, Paula (2014-05-13). "Oscar-Winning 'Searching For Sugar Man' Director Dead at 36" . IndieWire . Archived from the original on Apr 12, 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ " 'Searching for Sugar Man' winning Best Documentary Feature" , Oscars on YouTube, 2013-03-04.
^ "Listen to me Marlon" (DVD video, 2018), WorldCat.
^ Passion Pictures (Apr 16, 2018). " 'Pear Cider And Cigarettes' Trailer" . YouTube .
^ " 'Piper' wins Best Animated Short Film" , Oscars on YouTube, 2017-04-03.
^ Rothman, Lily (February 28, 2017). "Exclusive: See the Trailer for Netflix's New Documentary About World War II and Hollywood" . Time . Archived from the original on 2017-02-28. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
^ "League of Legends 'Warriors' " . Passion Pictures . Archived from the original on Jul 15, 2020.
^ Sapir, Ronit (May 31, 2020). "Winners of the Berlin Music Video Awards 2020" . Berlin Music Video Awards . Archived from the original on Feb 14, 2024.
^ Molnárová, Petra (March 16, 2021). "2021 nominees - set 3" . Berlin Music Video Awards . Archived from the original on Nov 1, 2023.
^ Molnárová, Petra (March 26, 2021). "2021 nominees - set 9" . Berlin Music Video Awards . Archived from the original on Aug 9, 2022.
^ Lucas, Katherine (2021-05-26). "Everything we know so far about the new Sir Alex Ferguson documentary on Amazon Prime" . inews.co.uk . Archived from the original on Nov 7, 2023.
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