DistributorTelevision

Essential Media & Entertainment

Sydney, Australia(approximate location)

Contact & details

TypeDistributor · Television

LocationSydney, Australia

Websiteessentialfilms.studio

Statusactive2020 credit + site i

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How their work is rated

Average rating

7.5IMDb

4.0directory 6.28.0

16 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

Oscars

nominations

35 wins from 184 nominations across all awards

Box office

$83m

Combined US gross, 1 of 32 titles

Highest rated

A Traveler's Guide to the Planets

2010

7.9276 votes

Lowest rated

Scorched

2008

5.4305 votes

Mostly: documentary, drama, crime
Active: 2006–2019
Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
Best known for: Saving Mr. Banks

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 23 of 32 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series

1811 seasons

2010–2020

Television rating

7.4IMDb

Their films average 7.5, so the television rates 0.1 lower.

Networks

ABC TV2
SBS2
Prime1
Nine Network1
FOX1
National Geographic1

Across 8 series matched to TMDB, 93 episodes.

Longest runningDoctor Doctor · 5 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 36

14 films · 18 TV titles

Griff's Great Australian Rail Trip
2020 · TV
Produced
Selling the Big Easy
2020 · TV
Produced
Griff's Great Kiwi Road Trip
2019 · TV
Produced
Beyond the Boundary: Inside the Battle for the Ashes 2019
2019 · TV
Produced
The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook
2018 · TV
Produced
Search for Second Earth
2018 · TV
Produced
Living Universe
2018 · Film
Produced
Jack Irish
2017 · TV
Produced
Sammy & Bella's Kitchen Rescue
2017 · TV
Produced
Sunshine
2017 · TV
Produced
The Go-Betweens: Right Here
2017 · Film
Produced
Doctor Doctor
2016 · TV
Produced
Afghanistan: Inside Australia's War
2016 · TV
Produced
The Principal
2015 · TV
Produced
Australia: The Story of Us
2015 · TV
Produced
Getting Frank Gehry
2015 · Film
Produced
Rake
2014 · TV
Produced
The Real Mary Poppins
2014 · Film
Produced
Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014 · Film
Produced
Saving Mr. Banks
2013 · Film
Produced
The Broken Shore
2013 · Film
Produced
Jack Irish: Bad Debts
2012 · Film
Produced
Jack Irish: Black Tide
2012 · Film
Produced
The Grammar of Happiness
2012 · Film
Produced

Titles per year33 titles · busiest 2012 with 4

33 titles across 23 years, averaging 1.4 a year. The last five years average 0.0 a year, below their long-run rate. 9 of those 23 years carry no credit on file. 33 titles between 1997 and 2026, most in 2012 (4). 0 in the last five years shown, against 11 in the five before.

Quality over time14 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes

6 of 14 rated titles sit above their 7.5 average. 14 titles rated on IMDb between 1997 and 2026, averaging 7.5 weighted by votes. Highest: A Traveler's Guide to the Planets (2010) at 7.9; lowest: The Broken Shore (2013) at 6.6.

Who they work with

Directors

Jeffrey Walker3
Jennifer Peedom2

Writers

Peter Temple4
Matt Cameron3
Chris Thorburn3
Andrew Knight2

Notable cast

Guy Pearce3
Marta Dusseldorp3
Aaron Pedersen3
Alex Dimitriades2

Genres

Documentary11 of 21
Drama8 of 21
Crime6 of 21
Comedy4 of 21
Thriller2 of 21

Names appearing on two or more of Essential Media & Entertainment’s produced titles, across the 21 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with11 companies

Companies that appear alongside Essential Media & Entertainment on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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