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Participant Shutting Down Operations After 20 Years: Film Studio Was Behind Oscar Winners ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Green Book’ (EXCLUSIVE)


Jeff Skoll's Participant is shutting down after 20 years, leaving a library including Oscar winners "Spotlight and "Green Book."

Established in 2004, Participant co-produced or co-financed a number of notable movies including best picture Oscar winners “Spotlight” and “Green Book,” as well as Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” and the breakthrough documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” Its most notable TV effort came in 2019 with Netflix’s “When They See Us.” Participant will remain involved in a handful of projects – including the Hulu series ‘Interior Chinatown” with Jimmy O. Yang – which is in post-production. Under Linde, Participant became the largest certified B Corp (a designation that means a company meets “social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency” according to B Lab) in entertainment.

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