Annapurna Pictures is an American independent media company founded by Megan Ellison on April 2, 2011, and based in Los Angeles, California.

[4] Annapurna Pictures was founded in 2011 by Megan Ellison as a production and finance entity focusing on high-end auteur-driven cinema.

[6] By 2014 Annapurna had produced and/or financed the films Lawless, The Master, Killing Them Softly, Zero Dark Thirty, Spring Breakers, The Grandmaster, Her, Foxcatcher, and American Hustle, and was starting production on Joy, Sausage Party, Wiener-Dog, 20th Century Women, and Everybody Wants Some!!.

[7][8] In January 2017, the company announced they would begin distributing films, with their first being Detroit directed by Kathryn Bigelow, set for release on August 4, 2017.

As part of the deal, Annapurna received the rights to Adam McKay's film Vice starring Christian Bale as Dick Cheney.

[26][27][28] After taking financial losses from distributing Vice, Detroit, and Destroyer, Annapurna had to leave Bombshell just two weeks before it would start production, and also unattached itself from Hustlers.

[29] In December 2022, Annapurna launched its animation division led by former Blue Sky Studios Robert Baird and Andrew Millstein.

[32] On September 12th, 2024 news broke that the entire Annapurna Interactive Team of 25 resigned[33] following a dispute with its owner to spin off the video-game division as an independent entity.

The publisher has also provided funding and publication support for The Artful Escape by Beethoven & Dinosaur,[79] Ashen by A44 and Gorogoa by Jason Roberts.