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WingNut Films

Wellington, New Zealand

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film
Founded1987Wikidata
Founded byPeter JacksonWikidata
LocationWellington, New Zealand
Websitewingnut.studio
Emailhenry@wingnut.studio | HENRY@WINGNUT.STUDIO
Phone+64-4-388-9939
Statusactive2027 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
8.3IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

25 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Oscars20of34nominations59%
Emmys5of8nominations63%
BAFTAs0of2nominations0%

681 wins from 1,704 nominations across all awards

Box office
$2.4bn

Combined US gross, 17 of 30 titles

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Highest rated
The Beatles Anthology
1995
9.19,831 votes
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Lowest rated
Jack Brown: Genius
1996
5.1267 votes
Mostly
fantasy, adventure, drama
Active
1987–2027
Rotten Tomatoes
75%
Best known for
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 27 of 30 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
22 seasons

1995–2021

Networks
  • Disney+2
  • ABC1

Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 7 episodes.

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 31

28 films · 2 TV titles

Titles per year21 titles · busiest 2008 with 2

21 titles across 30 years, averaging 0.7 a year. The last five years hold at 0.6 a year. 13 of those 30 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time18 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 8.3200020102020

Their 2000s work is their strongest, averaging 8.6 across 7 titles. The 5 titles since 2015 average 6.8, 1.5 below their 8.4 overall. 5 of 18 rated titles sit above their 8.4 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Peter Jackson17
  • Neill Blomkamp2
Writers
  • Fran Walsh14
  • Peter Jackson13
  • Philippa Boyens10
  • J.R.R. Tolkien3
  • Phoebe Gittins2
Notable cast
  • Ian McKellen6
  • John Lennon3
  • Martin Freeman3
  • Richard Armitage3
  • Elijah Wood3
Genres
  • Fantasy12 of 27
  • Adventure11 of 27
  • Drama9 of 27
  • Action6 of 27
  • Documentary6 of 27

Names appearing on two or more of WingNut Films’s produced titles, across the 27 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 WingNut Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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