| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Film |
| Founded | 1998 (as Paramount Classics) 2006 (as Paramount Vantage) |
| Founder(s) | David Dinerstein Ruth Vitale |
| Key people | John Lesher (President) Nick Myer (Co-President) |
| Products | Motion pictures |
| Owner(s) | Viacom |
| Parent | Paramount Pictures |
Paramount Vantage (originally known as Paramount Classics) is the specialty film division of Paramount Pictures (which, in turn, has Viacom as its parent company), charged with producing, purchasing, distributing and marketing films, generally those with a more "art house" feel than films made and distributed by its parent company.
Paramount Classics was launched in 1998 and released such art house fare as The Virgin Suicides, You Can Count on Me, Sunshine, Mostly Martha, Winter Solstice, and three Patrice Leconte films (Girl on the Bridge, Man on the Train, Intimate Strangers). Although film journalist David Poland felt "Ruth Vitale and David Dinerstein have proven to have wonderful taste heading up Paramount Classics,",[1] the duo was fired in October 2005. [2]
In 2006, the Paramount Vantage brand branched off from Paramount Classics, which was relaunched in 2007 as a distributor of "smaller, review-driven films including foreign-language acquisitions and documentaries." [3]
In 2007, Paramount Vantage co-produced No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood with Miramax Films. The partnership paid off when both films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards, with the former film winning. The two won a combined six awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis in Blood and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem in No Country.
Despite its critical success, Paramount Vantage continually failed to deliver the financial returns Paramount Pictures expected. Only No Country for Old Men made a profit, while films that should have generated significant returns failed to deliver through either poor or excessive marketing. [4]
In June 2008, Paramount Pictures consolidated Paramount Vantage’s marketing, distribution, and physical production departments into the parent studio, while retaining the Paramount Vantage brand to develop and acquire specialty product with dedicated creative staff. [5]
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| Name | Release Date |
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| Trekkies | March 12, 1999 |
| Get Real | April 30, 1999 |
| Cabaret Balkan | July 23, 1999 |
| The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | August 6, 1999 |
| Train of Life | November 12, 1999 |
| Where's Marlowe? | November 12, 1999 |
| Deterrence | March 10, 2000 |
| The Virgin Suicides | May 12, 2000 |
| Passion of Mind | May 26, 2000 |
| Sunshine | June 9, 2000 |
| Girl on the Bridge | July 28, 2000 |
| You Can Count on Me | November 17, 2000 |
| The Gift | January 19, 2001 |
| Company Man | March 9, 2001 |
| Savage Souls | May 20, 2001 |
| Bride of the Wind | June 8, 2001 |
| An American Rhapsody | August 24, 2001 |
| Our Lady of the Assassins | September 7, 2001 |
| My First Mister | October 12, 2001 |
| Focus | November 2, 2001 |
| Sidewalks of New York | November 21, 2001 |
| Mean Machine | February 22, 2002 |
| Festival in Cannes | March 3, 2002 |
| The Triumph of Love | May 10, 2002 |
| The Emperor's New Clothes | June 14, 2002 |
| Who Is Cletis Tout? | July 26, 2002 |
| Mostly Martha | August 16, 2002 |
| Just a Kiss | September 27, 2002 |
| Bloody Sunday | October 4, 2002 |
| The Way Home | November 15, 2002 |
| Till Human Voices Wake Us | February 21, 2003 |
| House of Fools | April 25, 2003 |
| The Man on the Train | May 9, 2003 |
| Northfork | July 11, 2003 |
| And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen | August 8, 2003 |
| The Singing Detective | October 24, 2003 |
| The Machinist | January 18, 2004 |
| The Reckoning | March 5, 2004 |
| The United States of Leland | April 2, 2004 |
| Love Me If You Dare | May 11, 2004 |
| I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | June 16, 2004 |
| Intimate Strangers | July 30, 2004 |
| Mean Creek | August 20, 2004 |
| Enduring Love | October 29, 2004 |
| Fade to Black | November 5, 2004 |
| Schultze Gets the Blues | February 18, 2005 |
| Winter Solstice | April 8, 2005 |
| Mad Hot Ballroom | May 13, 2005 |
| After You... | June 3, 2005 |
| Hustle & Flow | July 22, 2005 |
| Asylum | August 12, 2005 |
| Neil Young: Heart of Gold | February 10, 2006 |
| Ask the Dust | March 17, 2006 |
| An Inconvenient Truth | May 24, 2006 |
| Typhoon | June 2, 2006 |
| Broken Bridges | September 8, 2006 |
| Arctic Tale | July 25, 2007 |
| Beneath | August 7, 2007 |
| The Kite Runner | December 14, 2007 |
| Shine a Light | April 4, 2008 |
| Film title | Release Date | Academy Awards |
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| Babel | October 27, 2006 |
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| Year of the Dog | January 20, 2007 | |
| Black Snake Moan | March 2, 2007 | |
| A Mighty Heart | June 22, 2007 | |
| Into the Wild | September 21, 2007 |
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| No Country for Old Men | November 9, 2007 |
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| Margot at the Wedding | November 16, 2007 | |
| There Will Be Blood | December 26, 2007 |
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| How She Move | January 25, 2008 | |
| The Eye | February 1, 2008 | |
| Son of Rambow | May 2, 2008 | |
| American Teen | July 25, 2008 | |
| The Duchess | September 19, 2008 |
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| Revolutionary Road | December 26, 2008 |
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| Defiance | December 31, 2008 |
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| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard | August 14, 2009 | |
| The Marc Pease Experience | August 21, 2009 | |
| Carriers | September 4, 2009 | |
| Capitalism: A Love Story | October 2, 2009 | |
| Middle Men | August 8, 2010 | |
| Waiting for Superman | September 24, 2010 | |
| Case 39 | October 1, 2010 | |
| Like Crazy | October 28, 2011 | |
| Nero Fiddled | 2012 | (UK distribution only) |
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