Industry Film Number of employees 11-50 Founded 2014 | Products Film distribution Headquarters New York City Type of business Private | |
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Website bleeckerstreetmedia.com Profiles | ||
Bleecker Street is a New York City-based film distribution company.
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Background
Bleecker Street was founded in August 2014 by CEO Andrew Karpen, former Co-CEO of Focus Features.
Bleecker Street has an output distribution deal with Shivani Rawat’s ShivHans Pictures, the producer of its first theatrical release Danny Collins, starring Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, and Christopher Plummer, as well as Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren and Diane Lane, and Captain Fantastic, starring Viggo Mortensen.
They've also released the Gavin Hood's drone thriller Eye in the Sky, starring Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul, Sean Ellis’s drama Anthropoid, starring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan, Mick Jackson’s drama Denial, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson, Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, starring Adam Driver, and Mark Pellington’s dramedy The Last Word, starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried. Future releases include James Gray's The Lost City of Z starring Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson, Gabriela Cowperthwaite's Megan Leavey starring Kate Mara, Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky starring Channing Tatum and Adam Driver, Andy Serkis' Breathe starring Andrew Garfield, Bharat Nalluri's The Man Who Invented Christmas starring Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, and Jonathan Pryce, and Mark Pellington's Nostalgia starring Jon Hamm and Ellen Burstyn.
Awards and accolades
Bleecker Street received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for Bryan Cranston in Trumbo as well as Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Bryan Cranston, and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Helen Mirren. The Golden Globes also nominated Trumbo for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Bryan Cranston, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Helen Mirren, Danny Collins for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical for Al Pacino, Captain Fantastic for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Viggo Mortensen. Captain Fantastic also received an Academy Award for Best Actor for Viggo Mortensen and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Viggo Mortensen.