Appian Way Productions

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| location = West Hollywood, California, U.S.

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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.{{Cite news|last=Lyons|first=Josh|date=20 June 2016|title=Leonardo DiCaprio And Appian Way Team With Misher Films For 'The Outlaw Ocean' At Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)|work=The Tracking Board|url=https://www.tracking-board.com/leonardo-dicaprio-and-appian-way-team-with-misher-films-for-the-outlaw-ocean-at-netflix-exclusive/|access-date=7 October 2020}} 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).

History

=2001–2010=

Appian Way Productions was founded by Leonardo DiCaprio in 2001.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/movies/stars-and-actors-film-critics-answer-readers-questions.html|title=The Good, the Bad, Not the Ugly|last1=Darghis|first1=Manohla|author-link1=Manohla Dargis|last2=Scott|first2=A. O.|author-link2=A. O. Scott|work=The New York Times|date=August 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528195053/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/movies/stars-and-actors-film-critics-answer-readers-questions.html|url-status=live|archive-date=May 28, 2019|access-date=November 4, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2001/film/news/ieg-dicaprio-gang-up-1117850751/|title=IEG, DiCaprio gang up|last1=Dunkley|first1=Cathy|last2=Brodesser|first2=Claude|work=Variety|date=August 5, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025172848/https://variety.com/2001/film/news/ieg-dicaprio-gang-up-1117850751/|url-status=live|archive-date=October 25, 2020|access-date=November 4, 2021}} It takes its name from the Roman road of the same name. Its first film was The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), starring Sean Penn as Samuel Byck, who attempted to assassinate US president Richard Nixon in 1974.{{cite news|last1=McCarthy |first1=Todd |title=Review: 'The Assassination of Richard Nixon' |url=https://variety.com/2004/film/awards/the-assassination-of-richard-nixon-1200533361/ |access-date=December 20, 2015 |work=Variety |date=May 17, 2004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222113101/http://variety.com/2004/film/awards/the-assassination-of-richard-nixon-1200533361/ |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }} It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4200653/year/2004.html |title=The Assassination of Richard Nixon |publisher=Cannes Film Festival |access-date=December 20, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110210248/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4200653/year/2004.html |archive-date=November 10, 2013 |df=mdy }} The company's next film was the 2004 biopic The Aviator, produced in association with Forward Pass, Intermedia, and Initial Entertainment Group. Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicted the life of Howard Hughes (DiCaprio), an aviation pioneer who became a successful film producer between the late 1920s and late 1940s while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive–compulsive disorder.{{cite book|last1=Santas|first1=Constantine|last2=Wilson|first2=James M.|last3=Colavito|first3=Maria|last4=Baker|first4=Djoymi|title=The Encyclopedia of Epic Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWYmAwAAQBAJ|year=2014|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-8248-5|page=64}}{{cite news|last1=Winter |first1=Jessica |title=The Aviator |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/10/dvdreviews |access-date=December 20, 2015 |work=The Guardian |date=June 10, 2005 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222104649/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/10/dvdreviews |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }} Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Sukhdev Sandhu described the film as "a gorgeous tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood" even though it "tips the balance of spectacle versus substance in favour of the former". He praised Martin Scorsese's direction, DiCaprio and the supporting cast.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3633956/Thrillingly-bumpy-ride-towards-madness.html |title=Thrillingly bumpy ride towards madness |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=December 24, 2004 |access-date=December 20, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301095947/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3633956/Thrillingly-bumpy-ride-towards-madness.html |archive-date=March 1, 2016 }} The film proved to be a commercial success, with a worldwide gross of $213.7 million against a budget of $110 million.{{cite web|title=The Aviator (2004) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=aviator.htm |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=December 20, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151221112126/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=aviator.htm |archive-date=December 21, 2015 }} It earned a total of eleven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Scorsese) and Best Actor (DiCaprio), and won five of them, including a Best Supporting Actress award for Cate Blanchett.{{Cite news|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2005 |title=The 77th Academy Awards (2005) Nominees and Winners |access-date=December 20, 2015 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101230853/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2005 |archive-date=January 1, 2016 }}

File:Leonardo DiCaprio visited Goddard Saturday to discuss Earth science with Piers Sellers (26105091624) cropped.jpg—the founder of Appian Way Productions. Alongside producing many of the company's films, he also played roles in a few of them|alt=A photograph of Leonardo DiCaprio.]]

Kevin Connolly, a close friend of DiCaprio, directed Appian Way's next film—the comedy drama Gardener of Eden (2007), which, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Frank Scheck, "lack[ed] the necessary dramatic urgency or black humor to connect with audiences".{{cite news|last1=Scheck |first1=Frank |title=The Gardener of Eden |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/gardener-eden-159414 |access-date=December 20, 2015 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=April 26, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222112758/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/gardener-eden-159414 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }} A few months later, Appian Way released The 11th Hour, a documentary about global warming. The film, featuring 50 experts who suggested solutions to various environmental problems, won the Earthwatch Environmental Film Award through the National Geographic Channel in March 2008.{{cite web|last1=Kohli |first1=Gayrajan |title=Why You Should Watch 'The 11th Hour' With Leonardo DiCaprio |url=http://abcofsolar.com/watch-11th-hour-leonardo-dicaprio/ |publisher=abcofsolar.com |access-date=December 20, 2015 |date=December 21, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222074244/http://abcofsolar.com/watch-11th-hour-leonardo-dicaprio/ |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }} DiCaprio wrote a three-season television series Greensburg (2008–10) which was produced by the company.{{cite web|title=Greensburg Season 3 to Air on Planet Green |url=http://www.greensburgks.org/government/news/greensburg-season-3-to-air-on-planet-green |publisher=Greensburgks.org |access-date=December 20, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222141150/http://www.greensburgks.org/government/news/greensburg-season-3-to-air-on-planet-green |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }}

Appian Way later produced another biopic, Public Enemies (2009), a Michael Mann-directed mob drama starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.{{cite book|last=Slavicek|first=Louise Chipley|title=Leonardo DiCaprio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6RbAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT89|year=2012|publisher=Infobase Learning|isbn=978-1-4381-4133-6|page=89}} Following the final years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger (Depp) as he is pursued by FBI agent Melvin Purvis during Great Depression, the film was an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. A commercial success, it also received generally positive reviews, though critics found historical inaccuracies in the film.{{cite web|title=Public Enemies |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/public-enemies |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=June 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213122648/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/public-enemies |archive-date=December 13, 2016 }}{{cite web|title=Public Enemies (2009) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=publicenemies.htm |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=June 25, 2017 |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207025629/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=publicenemies.htm |archive-date=February 7, 2017 }} The company, along with Dark Castle Entertainment, released the 2009 psychological horror film Orphan, which told the story of a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a mysterious nine-year-old girl. The film was considered by the adoption community to promote negative stereotypes about orphans.{{cite news|last1=Crary |first1=David |title=Advocates of adoption upset by 'Orphan' film |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-19-adna-orphan-movie19-story.html |access-date=December 20, 2015 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 19, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222130512/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/19/news/adna-orphan-movie19 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }} Although the film received mixed reviews, it was a commercial success.{{cite book|last=Ochoa|first=George|title=Deformed and Destructive Beings: The Purpose of Horror Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-JuwEmWxK20C|year=2011|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-8654-0|page=75}}

Scorsese reunited with the company to make the film Shutter Island (2010), a psychological thriller based on the 2003 novel of same name by Dennis Lehane. DiCaprio played U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels, who investigates a psychiatric facility located on an island but eventually comes to question his own sanity. A commercial success, the film received generally positive reviews; Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised the film's direction and performances but criticized its "silly twist ending", calling it "supremely exasperating".{{cite web|title=Shutter Island (2010) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shutterisland.htm |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=December 20, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114052048/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shutterisland.htm |archive-date=January 14, 2016 }}{{cite news|last1=Bradshaw |first1=Peter |title=Shutter Island |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/mar/11/shutter-island-review |access-date=December 20, 2015 |work=The Guardian |date=March 11, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222093432/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/mar/11/shutter-island-review |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }}

=2011 onward=

Red Riding Hood, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, was Appian Way's first release in 2011. The film, set in a village haunted by werewolves, follows a young girl who falls in love with an orphan woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure. Earlier in production, the film was titled The Girl with the Red Riding Hood.{{cite magazine|last1=Sperling |first1=Nicole |title='Twilight' director Catherine Hardwicke talks new project: 'Red Riding Hood' |url=https://www.ew.com/article/2010/04/23/catherine-hardwicke-red-riding-hood |access-date=December 21, 2015 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=April 23, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308105929/http://www.ew.com/article/2010/04/23/catherine-hardwicke-red-riding-hood |archive-date=March 8, 2016 }} Although it was poorly received by critics—Mary Pols of Time named it one of the Top 10 Worst Movies of 2011—it had moderate box-office returns.{{cite magazine|last=Pols |first=Mary |title=The Top 10 Everything of 2011 – Red Riding Hood |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101344_2101366_2101544,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=December 21, 2011 |date=December 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220201942/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0%2C28804%2C2101344_2101366_2101544%2C00.html |archive-date=December 20, 2011 }}{{cite web|title=Red Riding Hood |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=redridinghood.htm |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=December 21, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151216161140/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=redridinghood.htm |archive-date=December 16, 2015 }} The company's second release in 2011 was Detachment, a Tony Kaye-directed drama about the high school education system.{{cite magazine|last1=Travers |first1=Peter |title=Detachment Review |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/detachment-20120315 |access-date=December 21, 2015 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 15, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222192251/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/detachment-20120315 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }} George Clooney directed and co-produced the company's final film of the year The Ides of March, which is based on Beau Willimon's play Farragut North. Starring Ryan Gosling, Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman, this political drama takes place during a presidential primary, when an ambitious press secretary (Gosling) becomes embroiled in a political scandal. The film received positive reviews;{{cite web|title=The Ides of March |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ides_of_march |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=June 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603141110/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ides_of_march/ |archive-date=June 3, 2017 }} one from The Guardian praised the direction and the performances of the cast.{{cite news|last1=French|first1=Philip|title=The Ides of March – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/30/ides-of-march-clooney-review|access-date=July 7, 2017|work=The Guardian|date=October 29, 2011}}

File:Martin Scorsese by David Shankbone.jpg has directed three of the company's films, The Aviator (2004), Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), all of which were successful.|alt=A picture of Martin Scorsese smiling away from the camera.]]

Three films were produced by Appian Way in 2013; the first was Runner Runner, an ensemble crime thriller, which The Guardian{{'s}} Xan Brooks described as "a lazy, trashy film that barely goes through the motions".{{cite news|last1=Brooks |first1=Xan |title=Runner Runner – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/26/runner-runner-review |access-date=December 21, 2015 |work=The Guardian |date=September 26, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222115920/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/26/runner-runner-review |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }} The thriller Out of the Furnace, the company's second release, was also negatively received by critics and was a box office bomb.{{cite news|first=Amy |last=Kaufman |date=December 8, 2013 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-box-office-frozen-catching-fire-out-furnace-20131208,0,5774917.story |work=Los Angeles Times |title='Frozen' tops 'Catching Fire,' but 'Furnace' generates no heat |access-date=December 21, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504192914/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-box-office-frozen-catching-fire-out-furnace-20131208%2C0%2C5774917.story |archive-date=May 4, 2014 }} Scorsese directed the company's final film in 2013—The Wolf of Wall Street, a biopic on the life of Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio), a New York stockbroker who runs a firm that engages in securities fraud and money laundering on Wall Street in the 1990s. The screenplay was adapted by Terence Winter from Belfort's memoir of the same name.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/jordan-belfort-the-real-wolf-of-wall-street-and-the-men-who-brought-him-down-9047015.html |title=Jordan Belfort: The real Wolf of Wall Street and the men who brought him down |work=The Independent |date=January 12, 2014 |last=Harding |first=Nick |access-date=August 8, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921005639/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/jordan-belfort-the-real-wolf-of-wall-street-and-the-men-who-brought-him-down-9047015.html |archive-date=September 21, 2015 }} The film was banned in Kenya, Malaysia and Nepal for its controversial depiction of events, explicit sexual content, profanity, and hard drug use.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26176239 |title=Kenya arrests over banned Wolf of Wall Street film |date=13 February 2014 |work=BBC News |access-date=27 June 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910111207/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26176239 |archive-date=September 10, 2016 }}{{cite news|title='The Wolf Of Wall Street' banned in Malaysia and Nepal |url=https://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/the-wolf-of-wall-street-banned-in-malaysia-and-nepal/329435 |work=NME |access-date=December 21, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222104845/http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/the-wolf-of-wall-street-banned-in-malaysia-and-nepal/329435 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }} Nonetheless, it was a commercial success, becoming the 17th-highest-grossing film of 2013.{{cite news|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2013&p=.htm |title=2013 Worldwide Grosses |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=December 21, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151205230715/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2013&p=.htm |archive-date=December 5, 2015 }} The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, although it failed to win in any category.{{cite news|title=Oscar nominations 2014: full list of nominees |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/10576384/Oscar-nominations-2014-full-list-of-nominees.html |access-date=July 8, 2015 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=March 2, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715113410/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/10576384/Oscar-nominations-2014-full-list-of-nominees.html |archive-date=July 15, 2015 }}

In 2015, DiCaprio produced and co-starred with Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson in The Revenant, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. This biographical western thriller is based on in part on Michael Punke's 2002 novel of the same name, which itself was inspired by the frontiersman Hugh Glass's survival after being mauled by a grizzly bear in 1823. Co-produced with Regency Enterprises, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Anonymous Content and M Productions, the film was well received with particular praise for the performances, direction and cinematography. "Bleak as hell but considerably more beautiful, this nightmarish plunge into a frigid, forbidding American outback is a movie of pitiless violence, grueling intensity and continually breathtaking imagery", according to Justin Change of Variety.{{cite news|last1=Chang |first1=Justin |title=Film Review: 'The Revenant' |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/the-revenant-review-leonardo-dicaprio-alejandro-g-inarritu-1201649080/ |access-date=December 21, 2015 |work=Variety |date=December 4, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222145259/http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/the-revenant-review-leonardo-dicaprio-alejandro-g-inarritu-1201649080/ |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }} Built on a budget of $135 million, the film earned $533 million worldwide.{{cite web|title=The Revenant (2015) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=revenant.htm |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=June 23, 2017 |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529171101/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=revenant.htm |archive-date=May 29, 2017 }} The Revenant received 12 nominations at the 88th Academy Awards, and won three, including Best Director and Best Actor.{{cite news|last1=Rottenberg |first1=Josh |title=Oscars 2016: 'The Revenant' and 'Mad Max: Fury Road' lead the pack in Oscar nominations |url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/la-et-mn-the-revenant-mad-max-fury-road-oscar-nominations-20160114-story.html |access-date=June 23, 2017 |work=Orlando Sentinel |date=January 14, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818144737/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/la-et-mn-the-revenant-mad-max-fury-road-oscar-nominations-20160114-story.html |archive-date=August 18, 2016 }}

In May 2016, Appian Way Productions signed a three-year, first-look production deal with Paramount Pictures.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leonardo-dicaprio-paramount-pictures-sign-879504|title=Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions Signs Three-Year Deal With Paramount|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=March 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520134510/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leonardo-dicaprio-paramount-pictures-sign-879504|archive-date=May 20, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=27 June 2016}} In December 2016, the company released Live by Night, based on the 2012 novel of same name by Dennis Lehane. Directed by, written by and starring Ben Affleck, this Prohibition-era gangster drama received largely unenthusiastic reviews and failed to recoup its $65 million production budget.{{cite web|last=McClintock |first=Pamela |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-why-ben-afflecks-live-by-night-martin-scorseses-silence-fared-poorly-964185 |title=Box Office: Why Ben Affleck's 'Live by Night' and Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' Fared So Poorly |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=January 14, 2017 |access-date=June 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116155113/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-why-ben-afflecks-live-by-night-martin-scorseses-silence-fared-poorly-964185 |archive-date=January 16, 2017 }} Also that year, the company produced four documentaries, Davi's Way, The Last Shaman, The Ivory Game and Before the Flood, the last of which won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Documentary.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/10/the-ivory-game-trailer-first-look-documentary-leonardo-dicaprio-1201840240/ |title='The Ivory Game' Trailer: First Look At Netflix's Latest Leonardo DiCaprio-Produced Docu |last=Hipes |first=Patrick |date=October 21, 2016 |access-date=June 25, 2017 |publisher=Deadline Hollywood |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204151528/http://deadline.com/2016/10/the-ivory-game-trailer-first-look-documentary-leonardo-dicaprio-1201840240/ |archive-date=February 4, 2017 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/evening-standard-british-film-awards-the-longlist-a3398101.html |title=Evening Standard British Film Awards - The Longlist |work=London Evening Standard |first=William |last=Moore |date=November 17, 2016 |access-date=November 29, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129190330/http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/evening-standard-british-film-awards-the-longlist-a3398101.html |archive-date=November 29, 2016 }}

In 2017, Appian Way produced Under the Bed, a television film thriller about a young woman trying to get over a breakup, while befriending a stalker on social media.{{cite news|last1=McNary|first1=Dave|title=Lifetime Buys Thriller 'Under the Bed' Starring 'Black Sails' Actress Hannah New (Exclusive)|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/lifetime-under-the-bed-hannah-new-1201936266/|access-date=June 28, 2017|work=Variety|date=December 7, 2016}} In association with Blumhouse Productions and GK Films, the company later produced Delirium, a supernatural horror film which was released later that year.{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/jason-blum-green-inferno-delirium-distribution-1201595868/|title=How Jason Blum Plans to Upend Film Distribution With 'Green Inferno,' 'Delirium'|work=Variety|first=Brent|last=Lang|date=September 17, 2015|access-date=June 25, 2017}}

In 2023, Appian Way produced The Featherweight, the debut film of Robert Kolodny, which had its world premiere in competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival{{Cite web|last=Gyarkye|first=Lovia |date=2023-09-03|title=The Featherweight Review: A Poetic Tribute to Boxing Champion Willie Pep|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-featherweight-review-willie-pep-1235580359/|access-date=2023-09-12|website=Hollywood Reporter|language=en}} and Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, which was distributed by Apple TV+ and Paramount Pictures.{{Cite web|url=https://www.paramountmovies.com/movies/killers-of-the-flower-moon|title=Killers of the Flower Moon | Now on Digital | Paramount Movies|via=www.paramountmovies.com}}

More recently,{{when|date=July 2024}} the studio signed first-look deals with Apple for documentaries and television and with Sony Pictures Entertainment for feature films.{{Cite web|title=Apple Signs First Look TV and Movie Deal With Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Production Company|url=https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/03/apple-tv-plus-appian-way-leonardo-dicaprio/|access-date=2020-08-05|website=MacRumors|date=August 3, 2020 |language=en}}{{Cite web|last= Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|date=2020-08-13|title=Leonardo DiCaprio & Jennifer Davisson's Appian Way Sets First Look Film Deal At Sony|url=https://deadline.com/2020/08/leonardo-dicaprio-jennifer-davisson-appian-way-first-look-feature-first-look-deal-sony-picturessony-1203012571/|access-date=2020-08-15|website=Deadline|language=en}}

James Rollins's Sigma Force techno-thriller novels are getting the small screen treatment. A television adaptation of the book series is in development from Absentia creator Matt Cirulnick, Amazon MGM Studios, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions, Oakhurst Entertainment and Talaria Media.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Films

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! Release Date

! Title

! Directors

! Production partners

! Distributors

December 25, 2004

| The Aviator

| Martin Scorsese

| Forward Pass
Intermedia Films
Initial Entertainment Group

| Warner Bros. Pictures
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Buena Vista International
{{small|(International)}}

December 29, 2004

| The Assassination of Richard Nixon

| Niels Mueller

| Anhelo Productions
Esperanto Filmoj

| ThinkFilm

April 26, 2007

| Gardener of Eden{{cite news |last1=Scheck |first1=Frank |author-link1=Frank Scheck |title=The Gardener of Eden |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/gardener-eden-159414 |access-date=February 23, 2020 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=April 26, 2007 |language=en}}

| Kevin Connolly

| Virtual Studios

July 24, 2009

| Orphan

| Jaume Collet-Serra

| Dark Castle Entertainment
Studio Babelberg Motion Pictures{{cite web |title=Orphan (2009) {{!}} BFI |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8c7c1509 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230162422/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8c7c1509 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 30, 2016 |website=BFI |access-date=June 21, 2018 |language=en}}
StudioCanal

| Warner Bros. Pictures
{{small|(North America/France)}}
Kinowelt Filmverleih
{{small|(Germany)}}

February 19, 2010

| Shutter Island

| Martin Scorsese

| Phoenix Pictures
Sikelia Productions

| Paramount Pictures

March 11, 2011

| Red Riding Hood

| Catherine Hardwicke

| Warner Bros. Pictures

March 16, 2011

| Detachment

| Tony Kaye

| Tribeca Film

October 7, 2011

| The Ides of March

| George Clooney

| Columbia Pictures
Smokehouse Pictures
Exclusive Media
Cross Creek Pictures

| Sony Pictures Releasing

October 4, 2013

| Runner Runner

| Brad Furman

| Regency Enterprises
New Regency
Double Feature Films

| 20th Century Fox

December 6, 2013

| Out of the Furnace

| Scott Cooper

| Red Granite Pictures
Scott Free Productions

| Relativity Media

December 25, 2013

| The Wolf of Wall Street

| Martin Scorsese

| Red Granite Pictures
Sikelia Productions
EMJAG Productions

| Paramount Pictures
{{small|(North America/Japan)}}
Universal Pictures
{{small|(Europe)}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/wolf-wall-street-secures-overseas-distribution-multiple-territories-through-universal-64/|title='The Wolf of Wall Street' Secures Overseas Distribution in Multiple Territories Through Universal|author=Liza Foreman|work=TheWrap|date=November 8, 2012|access-date=February 5, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2012/11/universal-international-acquires-wolf-of-wall-street-european-rights-368208/|title=Universal International Acquires 'Wolf Of Wall Street' European Rights|author=Dominic Patten|work=Deadline|date=November 8, 2012|access-date=February 5, 2021}}

December 25, 2015

| The Revenant

| Alejandro González Iñárritu

| Regency Enterprises
RatPac Entertainment
New Regency
Anonymous Content
M Productions

| 20th Century Fox

December 25, 2016

| Live by Night

| Ben Affleck

| RatPac-Dune Entertainment
Pearl Street Films

| Warner Bros. Pictures

May 22, 2018

| Delirium

| Dennis Iliadis

| Blumhouse Productions
GK Films

| Universal Pictures

November 21, 2018

| Robin Hood

| Otto Bathurst

| Summit Entertainment
Safehouse Pictures
Thunder Road Films

| Lionsgate

December 13, 2019

| Richard Jewell

| Clint Eastwood

| Malpaso Productions
Misher Films
75 Year Plan Productions

|Warner Bros. Pictures

October 20, 2023

| Killers of the Flower Moon

| Martin Scorsese

| Imperative Entertainment
Sikelia Productions
Apple Studios

| Paramount Pictures
Apple TV+

February 2024

| Queen of Bones

| Robert Budreau

| Lumanity Productions
Productivity Media

| Falling Forward Films

September 20, 2024

| The Featherweight

| Robert Kolodny

| Golden Ratio Films

| Tribeca Films

TBA

| Billy Summers{{cite web|title=Warner Bros Takes Stephen King Bestseller 'Billy Summers', Bad Robot & Appian Way To Produce|url=https://deadline.com/2023/02/stephen-king-billy-summers-warner-bros-bad-robot-leonardo-dicaprio-1235249142/|website=Deadline Hollywood|last1=D'Alessandro|first1=Anthony|last2=Fleming Jr.|first2=Mike|date=February 3, 2023}}

| TBA

| Bad Robot

|Warner Bros. Pictures

Television

Greensburg (2008–10)
Under the Bed (2017){{efn|A television film thriller, the production is inspired by true events.}}
Pete the Cat (2018–2022)
Grant (2020)
The Right Stuff (2020)
Shining Girls (2022)

Documentaries

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The 11th Hour (2007)
Virunga (2014, Netflix release)
Cowspiracy (2015, Netflix release)
Davi's Way (2016)
The Last Shaman (2016)
The Ivory Game (2016)
Before the Flood (2016)
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2018)
Ice on Fire (2019)
Sea of Shadows (2019, National Geographic Channel release)
And We Go Green (2019)
Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020, Netflix release)
Kid 90 (2021)
Fin (2021)
The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 (2021)

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