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Nelvana

Toronto, Canada(approximate location)

Entertaining children for over 50 years, Nelvana is an award-winning producer, distributor and licensor of children’s animated and live-action content and best-in-class merchandising agent.

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television · Animation
Founded2023Wikidata
Founded byChris MeledandriWikidata
Part ofIlluminationWikidata
LocationToronto, Canada
Websitenelvana.com
Emailinfo@nelvana.com
Social
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Phone+1 416 479 7000
Statusactive2024 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
6.5IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

89 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

88 wins from 366 nominations across all awards

Box office
$99m

Combined US gross, 9 of 181 titles

The Adventures of Tintin poster
Highest rated
The Adventures of Tintin
1991
8.320,444 votes
The Star Wars Holiday Special poster
Lowest rated
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
2.217,949 votes
Mostly
animation, comedy, family
Active
1977–2024
Rotten Tomatoes
39%
Best known for
Malice

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 118 of 181 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
99210 seasons

1983–2024

Television rating
7.1IMDb

Their films average 5.2, so the television rates 1.8 higher.

Networks
  • YTV23
  • Teletoon17
  • Treehouse TV13
  • Nickelodeon12
  • CBS7
  • FOX5

Across 74 series matched to TMDB, 5,408 episodes. 11 still returning or in production.

Longest runningCyberchase · 15 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 208

81 films · 100 TV titles

Titles per year104 titles · busiest 2006 with 9

104 titles across 28 years, averaging 3.7 a year. The last five years average 1.4 a year, below their long-run rate.

Quality over time57 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
3579their average 6.5200020102020

Their 2000s work is their strongest, averaging 6.9 across 31 titles. The 8 titles since 2015 average 6.5, holding at their 6.7 overall. 20 of 57 rated titles sit above their 6.7 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Clive A. Smith5
  • Laura Shepherd4
  • Arna Selznick3
  • Raymond Jafelice3
  • Ron Pitts2
Writers
  • Peter Sauder8
  • Patrick Loubert5
  • Nadine Van der Velde4
  • Ken Sobol4
  • Susan Snooks4
Notable cast
  • Alyson Court7
  • Richard Binsley5
  • John Stocker4
  • Chris Wiggins4
  • Dan Hennessey4
Genres
  • Animation105 of 117
  • Comedy59 of 117
  • Family54 of 117
  • Adventure48 of 117
  • Action14 of 117

Names appearing on two or more of Nelvana’s produced titles, across the 117 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 Nelvana on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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