We get movies.” And the only thing we could put it in was a cardboard box with duct tape. Katz, Fenkel, and Hodges, prior to A24, worked in film and production, before leaving to eventually co-found the company, originally A24 Films, which specialized in film distribution. John Heavey (distribution, A24): Especially the first two years, we fell in love with every movie. From award-winning writing and photography to binge-ready videos to electric live events, GQ meets millions of modern men where they live, creating the moments that create conversations. It’s exciting. Like, no way in hell. Fifty-six-year-old guy.

In 2017,[4] Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture (the first such award for the company), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) while in 2019, a film distributed by A24, The Lighthouse was nominated for Best Cinematography. Noah Sacco (head of acquisitions and production, A24): I think some of our biggest movies had no stars in them at the time of release—Ex Machina, Moonlight, The Witch, Room, The Spectacular Now. Denis Villeneuve (director, ‘Enemy’): I never saw them as businessmen. Katz: By the way, a thousand times out of a thousand, you’re wrong.

Under Katz’s leadership (and along with fellow co-founders David Fenkel and the now departed John Hodges), the indie entertainment company has reeled in 25 Oscar nominations since its 2012 launch, most notably for “Lady Bird” (2017), with five nods, and “Moonlight” (2016), which won three statuettes, including one for best picture. And yeah, I just think that it takes—it doesn’t happen that often that a new studio starts. In between, A24 went from being a tiny, disorganized room of eight or so people to being the place where big stars like Robert Pattinson and Scarlett Johansson go to make small, strange movies, and auteurs like Jonathan Glazer and Denis Villeneuve go to make deeply personal films unmolested by studio notes or clueless executives. They kept shutting us down. Kapadia: There were other films that had a lot more money in their campaign and were everywhere. Fenkel: I’d love to say from the first cut we knew. Daniel’s like, “Okay. Nathan (Oscar Isaac) and Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno). Daniel Katz (co-founder, A24): We used to always talk about “Oh, there’s gotta be a better way. Other companies wanted to do stuff with it. A24 is an American independent entertainment company founded on August 20, 2012, by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges and based in New York City. You know, they’re big-time. But it was word of mouth. Igoe: Even with Ex Machina at the time, we were getting bigger, but we still had that kind of start-up mentality that I don’t know we’d be able to get away with now. Nicolette Aizenberg (distribution executive, A24): It is very cyclical.

It wasn’t disrespectful. It was social media. This website uses cookies to make the experience of the website better. I think what they’ve understood is there’s a sufficient number of people out there who want more challenging or different material. Brie Larson (actress, ‘Room,’ ‘The Spectacular Now’): A24 has the unique ability to find and champion authentic narratives that cut to the core in a raw and honest way. And we put in Oscar statues in his hands. Sacco: I show up at the airport. Fenkel: [Katz] is a better runner than I am. The Oscar-nominated actor gives us his all-time favorites of film. And with the opening weekend, with the numbers that we did, it became very clear that, yes, this is a viable strategy, to keep this very small, gay, art-house hood-ass film—like, yeah, we’re just gonna keep it in theaters. Worst case, you’ll get the trench-coat crowd.” You know what the trench-coat crowd is? Katz: Tusk, we were like, oh, Kevin Smith! In 2013, A24 released their first five films: Sally Potter’s ‘Ginger & Rosa’, Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers’, Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Bling Ring’, James Ponsoldt’s ‘The Spectacular Now’, and Roman Coppola’s ‘A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III’, starring Charlie Sheen. Katz: It was early in the relationship. Films distributed by A24 ended up getting nominated for seven Academy Awards that year, including Best Picture (‘Room’), Actress (Brie Larson), Documentary (‘Amy’), and Original Screenplay (‘Ex Machina’). He is a writer and actor, known for Liekitettyjä Kääryläisiä (1984), …

Katz: And we were all like, “You know what? I don’t mean it that way. Barry Jenkins (director, ‘Moonlight’): A24’s the kind of company where they say, “Yeah, they don’t need to know what it’s about. Despite lacking any pre-defined structure, episodes generally contain discussions around recent works of the two guests, allowing for branching discussions to other areas. Aizenberg: I was already, like, putting together the distribution plans for Frances Ha. You prepare like for your dissertation at Harvard. I think when movie companies get started, people want to define you immediately. In pretty decent seats, actually. The story behind the studio that brought you “Moonlight” and “It Comes At Night”, as told by Barry Jenkins, Sofia Coppola, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, and the founders of A24 themselves.

We get movies.” And the only thing we could put it in was a cardboard box with duct tape. Katz, Fenkel, and Hodges, prior to A24, worked in film and production, before leaving to eventually co-found the company, originally A24 Films, which specialized in film distribution. John Heavey (distribution, A24): Especially the first two years, we fell in love with every movie. From award-winning writing and photography to binge-ready videos to electric live events, GQ meets millions of modern men where they live, creating the moments that create conversations. It’s exciting. Like, no way in hell. Fifty-six-year-old guy.

In 2017,[4] Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture (the first such award for the company), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) while in 2019, a film distributed by A24, The Lighthouse was nominated for Best Cinematography. Noah Sacco (head of acquisitions and production, A24): I think some of our biggest movies had no stars in them at the time of release—Ex Machina, Moonlight, The Witch, Room, The Spectacular Now. Denis Villeneuve (director, ‘Enemy’): I never saw them as businessmen. Katz: By the way, a thousand times out of a thousand, you’re wrong.

Under Katz’s leadership (and along with fellow co-founders David Fenkel and the now departed John Hodges), the indie entertainment company has reeled in 25 Oscar nominations since its 2012 launch, most notably for “Lady Bird” (2017), with five nods, and “Moonlight” (2016), which won three statuettes, including one for best picture. And yeah, I just think that it takes—it doesn’t happen that often that a new studio starts. In between, A24 went from being a tiny, disorganized room of eight or so people to being the place where big stars like Robert Pattinson and Scarlett Johansson go to make small, strange movies, and auteurs like Jonathan Glazer and Denis Villeneuve go to make deeply personal films unmolested by studio notes or clueless executives. They kept shutting us down. Kapadia: There were other films that had a lot more money in their campaign and were everywhere. Fenkel: I’d love to say from the first cut we knew. Daniel’s like, “Okay. Nathan (Oscar Isaac) and Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno). Daniel Katz (co-founder, A24): We used to always talk about “Oh, there’s gotta be a better way. Other companies wanted to do stuff with it. A24 is an American independent entertainment company founded on August 20, 2012, by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges and based in New York City. You know, they’re big-time. But it was word of mouth. Igoe: Even with Ex Machina at the time, we were getting bigger, but we still had that kind of start-up mentality that I don’t know we’d be able to get away with now. Nicolette Aizenberg (distribution executive, A24): It is very cyclical.

It wasn’t disrespectful. It was social media. This website uses cookies to make the experience of the website better. I think what they’ve understood is there’s a sufficient number of people out there who want more challenging or different material. Brie Larson (actress, ‘Room,’ ‘The Spectacular Now’): A24 has the unique ability to find and champion authentic narratives that cut to the core in a raw and honest way. And we put in Oscar statues in his hands. Sacco: I show up at the airport. Fenkel: [Katz] is a better runner than I am. The Oscar-nominated actor gives us his all-time favorites of film. And with the opening weekend, with the numbers that we did, it became very clear that, yes, this is a viable strategy, to keep this very small, gay, art-house hood-ass film—like, yeah, we’re just gonna keep it in theaters. Worst case, you’ll get the trench-coat crowd.” You know what the trench-coat crowd is? Katz: Tusk, we were like, oh, Kevin Smith! In 2013, A24 released their first five films: Sally Potter’s ‘Ginger & Rosa’, Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers’, Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Bling Ring’, James Ponsoldt’s ‘The Spectacular Now’, and Roman Coppola’s ‘A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III’, starring Charlie Sheen. Katz: It was early in the relationship. Films distributed by A24 ended up getting nominated for seven Academy Awards that year, including Best Picture (‘Room’), Actress (Brie Larson), Documentary (‘Amy’), and Original Screenplay (‘Ex Machina’). He is a writer and actor, known for Liekitettyjä Kääryläisiä (1984), …

Katz: And we were all like, “You know what? I don’t mean it that way. Barry Jenkins (director, ‘Moonlight’): A24’s the kind of company where they say, “Yeah, they don’t need to know what it’s about. Despite lacking any pre-defined structure, episodes generally contain discussions around recent works of the two guests, allowing for branching discussions to other areas. Aizenberg: I was already, like, putting together the distribution plans for Frances Ha. You prepare like for your dissertation at Harvard. I think when movie companies get started, people want to define you immediately. In pretty decent seats, actually. The story behind the studio that brought you “Moonlight” and “It Comes At Night”, as told by Barry Jenkins, Sofia Coppola, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, and the founders of A24 themselves.

We get movies.” And the only thing we could put it in was a cardboard box with duct tape. Katz, Fenkel, and Hodges, prior to A24, worked in film and production, before leaving to eventually co-found the company, originally A24 Films, which specialized in film distribution. John Heavey (distribution, A24): Especially the first two years, we fell in love with every movie. From award-winning writing and photography to binge-ready videos to electric live events, GQ meets millions of modern men where they live, creating the moments that create conversations. It’s exciting. Like, no way in hell. Fifty-six-year-old guy.

In 2017,[4] Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture (the first such award for the company), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) while in 2019, a film distributed by A24, The Lighthouse was nominated for Best Cinematography. Noah Sacco (head of acquisitions and production, A24): I think some of our biggest movies had no stars in them at the time of release—Ex Machina, Moonlight, The Witch, Room, The Spectacular Now. Denis Villeneuve (director, ‘Enemy’): I never saw them as businessmen. Katz: By the way, a thousand times out of a thousand, you’re wrong.

Under Katz’s leadership (and along with fellow co-founders David Fenkel and the now departed John Hodges), the indie entertainment company has reeled in 25 Oscar nominations since its 2012 launch, most notably for “Lady Bird” (2017), with five nods, and “Moonlight” (2016), which won three statuettes, including one for best picture. And yeah, I just think that it takes—it doesn’t happen that often that a new studio starts. In between, A24 went from being a tiny, disorganized room of eight or so people to being the place where big stars like Robert Pattinson and Scarlett Johansson go to make small, strange movies, and auteurs like Jonathan Glazer and Denis Villeneuve go to make deeply personal films unmolested by studio notes or clueless executives. They kept shutting us down. Kapadia: There were other films that had a lot more money in their campaign and were everywhere. Fenkel: I’d love to say from the first cut we knew. Daniel’s like, “Okay. Nathan (Oscar Isaac) and Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno). Daniel Katz (co-founder, A24): We used to always talk about “Oh, there’s gotta be a better way. Other companies wanted to do stuff with it. A24 is an American independent entertainment company founded on August 20, 2012, by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges and based in New York City. You know, they’re big-time. But it was word of mouth. Igoe: Even with Ex Machina at the time, we were getting bigger, but we still had that kind of start-up mentality that I don’t know we’d be able to get away with now. Nicolette Aizenberg (distribution executive, A24): It is very cyclical.

It wasn’t disrespectful. It was social media. This website uses cookies to make the experience of the website better. I think what they’ve understood is there’s a sufficient number of people out there who want more challenging or different material. Brie Larson (actress, ‘Room,’ ‘The Spectacular Now’): A24 has the unique ability to find and champion authentic narratives that cut to the core in a raw and honest way. And we put in Oscar statues in his hands. Sacco: I show up at the airport. Fenkel: [Katz] is a better runner than I am. The Oscar-nominated actor gives us his all-time favorites of film. And with the opening weekend, with the numbers that we did, it became very clear that, yes, this is a viable strategy, to keep this very small, gay, art-house hood-ass film—like, yeah, we’re just gonna keep it in theaters. Worst case, you’ll get the trench-coat crowd.” You know what the trench-coat crowd is? Katz: Tusk, we were like, oh, Kevin Smith! In 2013, A24 released their first five films: Sally Potter’s ‘Ginger & Rosa’, Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers’, Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Bling Ring’, James Ponsoldt’s ‘The Spectacular Now’, and Roman Coppola’s ‘A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III’, starring Charlie Sheen. Katz: It was early in the relationship. Films distributed by A24 ended up getting nominated for seven Academy Awards that year, including Best Picture (‘Room’), Actress (Brie Larson), Documentary (‘Amy’), and Original Screenplay (‘Ex Machina’). He is a writer and actor, known for Liekitettyjä Kääryläisiä (1984), …

Katz: And we were all like, “You know what? I don’t mean it that way. Barry Jenkins (director, ‘Moonlight’): A24’s the kind of company where they say, “Yeah, they don’t need to know what it’s about. Despite lacking any pre-defined structure, episodes generally contain discussions around recent works of the two guests, allowing for branching discussions to other areas. Aizenberg: I was already, like, putting together the distribution plans for Frances Ha. You prepare like for your dissertation at Harvard. I think when movie companies get started, people want to define you immediately. In pretty decent seats, actually. The story behind the studio that brought you “Moonlight” and “It Comes At Night”, as told by Barry Jenkins, Sofia Coppola, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, and the founders of A24 themselves.

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