Here we make a list of the oldest existing film studios in the world.
1. Gaumont Film Company
Founder – Léon Gaumont
Founded On – 23 June, 1895
Country – France
Films Produced – Les Vampires (1915–16), The 39 Steps (1935), Léon: The Professional (1994)
2. Pathé
Founder – Charles Pathé, Émile Pathé, Théophile Pathé and Jacques Pathé
Founded On – 28 September, 1896
Country – France
Films Produced – Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), La Dolce Vita (1960), 127 Hours (2010)
3. Titanus
Founder – Gustavo Lombardo
Founded On – 1904
Country – Naples, Italy
Films Produced – Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Il Gattopardo (1963)
4. Nordisk Film
Founder – Ole Olsen
Founded On – 6 November, 1906
Country – Copenhagen, Denmark
Films Produced – Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013)
5. Universal Pictures
Founder – Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour
Founded On – April 30, 1912
Country – New York, United States
Films Produced – Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993)
6. Paramount Pictures
Founder – William Wadsworth Hodkinson, Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky
Founded On – May 8, 1912
Country – Los Angeles, United States
Films Produced – The Godfather (1972), Top Gun (1986), Forrest Gump (1994)
7. Nikkatsu
Founded On – September 10, 1912
Country – Japan
Films Produced – Branded to Kill (1967)
8. Columbia Pictures
Founder – Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn and Joe Brandt
Founded On – June 19, 1918
Country – New York, United States
Films Produced – It Happened One Night (1934), Ghostbusters (1984)
9. United Artists
Founder – Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith
Founded On – February 5, 1919
Country – Los Angeles, United States
Films Produced – Goldfinger (1964), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Rocky (1976)
10. Svensk Filmindustri
Founded On – 27 December, 1919
Country – Stockholm, Sweden
Films Produced – Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972)
11. Warner Bros. Pictures
Founder – Harry Warner, Albert Warner, Sam Warner and Jack L. Warner
Founded On – April 4, 1923
Country – Los Angeles, United States
Films Produced – The Jazz Singer (1927), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), My Fair Lady (1964)
12. Walt Disney Studios
Founder – Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney
Founded On – October 16, 1923
Country – Burbank, United States
Films Produced – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Lion King (1994)
13. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Founder – Marcus Loew and Louis B. Mayer
Founded On – April 17, 1924
Country – United States
Films Produced – The Wizard of Oz (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), An American in Paris (1951), Ben-Hur (1959)
14. Toho
Founder – Ichizō Kobayashi
Founded On – August 12, 1932
Country – Tokyo, Japan
Films Produced – Seven Samurai (1954), Godzilla (1954)
15. 20th Century Studios
Founder – Joseph M. Schenck, Darryl F. Zanuck, William Fox and Spyros Skouras
Founded On – May 31, 1935
Country – Los Angeles, United States
Films Produced – Planet of the Apes (1968), Alien (1979), Avatar (2009)
