Alcon Entertainment Information

Co-founders and co-CEO's Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson founded Alcon Entertainment in 1997 with partner Frederick W. Smith, the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FedEx. Alcon has financed and produced or co-financed and co-produced 34 films to date including the Academy Award Best Picture nominee The Blind Side which earned Sandra Bullock an Oscar for Best Actress and the critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford which won 2 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects and received an additional 3 nominations, among many others. Alcon Television Group which has several on-air and upcoming projects including the hit sci-fi series The Expanse, a critically acclaimed space thriller which boasts a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes; and the animated children's series Pete the Cat, a co-production with Amazon Studios based on the best-selling children's book series, and Blade Runner Black Lotus, an anime show that recently premiered on Adult Swim. Alcon Television Group past projects include the Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated four-part documentary The Defiant Ones, originally developed for HBO,which chronicled the divergent roots and unlikely partnership of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine that launched exclusively on NBCUniversal's Peacock; and the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney which remains one of HBO's most successful shows in the 50+ demographic.