Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 5 of 7 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.

Credits7

7 films

Klara and the Sun
2026 · Film
Produced
Next Goal Wins
2023 · Film
Produced
Jojo Rabbit
2019 · Film
Produced
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2016 · Film
Produced
What We Do in the Shadows
2014 · Film
Produced
What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires
2005 · Film
Produced
Two Cars, One Night
2004 · Film
Produced

Titles per year7 titles · busiest 2004 with 1

7 titles across 23 years, averaging 0.3 a year. The last five years hold at 0.4 a year. 16 of those 23 years carry no credit on file.

Who they work with

Directors

Taika Waititi5
Jemaine Clement2

Writers

Taika Waititi5
Jemaine Clement2

Notable cast

Jemaine Clement2
Taika Waititi2
Jonny Brugh2

Genres

Comedy5 of 5
Drama3 of 5
Horror2 of 5

Names appearing on two or more of Defender Films’s produced titles, across the 5 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.

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