Company type | Private |
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Industry | |
Founded | 2001 |
Founder | Leonardo DiCaprio |
Headquarters | West Hollywood, California, U.S. |
Key people | Jennifer Davisson (President of Production)[1] |
Products |
Appian Way Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 2001 by actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio. Since its launch, Appian Way has released a diverse slate of films, including Academy Award–winning films The Aviator (2004) and The Revenant (2015), and Academy Award–nominated films The Ides of March (2011) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). The company has also produced television series such as The Right Stuff (2020) for Disney+.
In recent years, Appian Way has been producing documentary films, especially pertaining to progressive environmental change.[2] The company worked in partnership with National Geographic to produce Before the Flood (2016). It also worked with Netflix on the Academy Award–nominated Virunga (2014) and Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014). Appian is in partnership with Netflix on several additional documentaries, including How to Change the World (2015), Catching the Sun (2015), and The Ivory Game (2016). Other projects released include The 11th Hour (2007), Sea of Shadows (2019), which won the Audience Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Ice on Fire (2019) with HBO, and And We Go Green (2019).