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Sony Pictures Classics was founded in January 1992 by Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom. All three had previously led Orion Classics before establishing SPC as an autonomous division of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Films released by Sony Pictures Classics have won 38 Academy Awards and received 166 nominations. Best Picture nominees from the company include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Amour, Whiplash, Call Me By Your Name, and The Father, among others.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) is the highest-grossing film in SPC's library, earning over $213 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. Of that total, $128 million came from the United States alone.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon received 10 Oscar nominations in 2001, the most ever for a non-English-language film at the time. Roma tied that record in 2018. The film also won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and a Golden Globe that year.
Ten SPC titles appeared on the 2025 New York Times list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century. The list was compiled by polling more than 500 filmmakers, actors, and film buffs worldwide. The titles included Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Amour, Whiplash, A Separation, The Lives of Others, and Amelie, among others.
Midnight in Paris (2011), released by Sony Pictures Classics, is Woody Allen's highest-grossing film ever in the United States, earning over $56.8 million domestically. It is also the second-highest-grossing title in SPC's overall library worldwide, with global earnings of over $162 million.