Orion Pictures
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Orion Releasing, LLC (doing business as Orion Pictures) is an American film production and distribution company owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon. In its original operating period (then-known as Orion Pictures Corporation), the company produced and released films from 1978 until 1999 and was also involved in television production and syndication throughout the 1980s until the early 1990s. It was formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and three former senior executives at United Artists. From its founding until its buyout by MGM in the late 1990s, Orion was considered one of the largest mini-major studios.[3]
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| Orion Pictures | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Film, television |
| Founded | January 1978; 46 years ago (1978-01) (original; as Orion Pictures Corporation) 2013; 11 years ago (2013) (relaunch; as Orion Releasing, LLC) |
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| Defunct | 1999; 25 years ago (1999) (original) |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Products | Motion pictures |
| Brands | Orion Classics |
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| Divisions | Orion Classics |
Woody Allen, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Oliver Stone, and several other prominent directors worked with Orion during its most successful years from 1978 to 1992. Of the films distributed by Orion, four won Academy Awards for Best Picture: Amadeus (1984), Platoon (1986), Dances with Wolves (1990), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).[4] Four other Orion films, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Mississippi Burning (1988), Women Talking (2022) and American Fiction (2023), were nominated for the aforementioned category.
Since 1997, Orion has been owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). In 2013, MGM revived the Orion name for television; a year later, Orion Pictures was relaunched by the studio.