Roger Ebert just tweeted that today is the 20th birthday of Sony Pictures Classics. I normally don’t weigh in on distributors, but I note that Sony Pictures Classic has already released three of the films on my Best Movies of 2011 – So Far – Incendies, The Guard and Midnight in Paris.
In 2009-20, their released four films that made my annual top ten lists: Another Year, The Secrets in Their Eyes and A Prophet. And, in 2008, Sony Pictures Classics released both my #1 film, I’ve Loved You So Long, and my #2, Rachel Getting Married. Not bad.