This Chinese gaming company is behind two Oscar-winning films

Gaming company co-funded Darkest Hour, Phantom Thread

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Chinese game company co-financed Darkest Hour, which won Best Actor at the Academy Awards for Gary Oldman’s performance as Winston Churchill (Source: Universal Pictures)

Published: 9:00pm, 6 Mar 2018Updated: 8:19am, 20 Sep 2019

This article originally appeared on ABACUS

Four Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards went to Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread, two period dramas starring Hollywood heavyweights Gary Oldman and Daniel Day-Lewis. Also involved in making those films? A Chinese company that publishes games.

The South China Morning Post says both films were partially funded by Perfect World, China’s third-largest in gaming.

Perfect World co-financed Darkest Hour, which won Best Actor at the Academy Awards for Gary Oldman’s performance as Winston Churchill (Source: Universal Pictures)

Perfect World owns a vast portfolio of internationally recognized titles. That includes massively multiplayer online role-playing games like Star Trek Online and Neverwinter, as well as distribution rights in China to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2.

Perfect World is the distributor of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in China (Source: Valve)

But recently, there are signs that the company is trying to consolidate its gaming business. Last year, it shut down Runic Games -- the Seattle-based developer behind Hob and the Torchlight series -- and earlier this year, it announced it will kill the third-person MOBA Gigantic made by studio Motiga in July.

This Chinese gaming company is behind two Oscar-winning films

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Gaming company co-funded Darkest Hour, Phantom Thread