Excellent Cadaver

In 2018, Excellent Cadaver was founded by actress Jennifer Lawrence. Lawrence produces with her producing partner, Justine Ciarrocchi.^[1]

In October 2018, it was announced that the company had signed a first-look deal with Makeready, who will finance and produce independently with Excellent Cadaver, or through Makeready's finance and production deals with Universal Pictures and Entertainment One.^[1][2]

Filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt was approached by Lawrence to create an animated logo for the company. The logo was featured in the company's first feature film, Causeway.^[4] In January 2023, Causeway went on to receive the company's first Academy Award nomination for Brian Tyree Henry in the Best Supporting Actor category.^[5]

In 2023, the company’s second feature film, No Hard Feelings, grossed over $89 million at the box office and earned Lawrence a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.^[6] That same year, the company's first documentary and third production, Bread and Roses directed by Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, about the 2021 Taliban takeover’s effects on women premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim.^[7] The production team went on to receive a Peabody Award and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary at the 46th News and Documentary Emmy Awards for their work on the documentary.^[8][9]

In 2024, Lawrence — alongside Chelsea and Hillary Clinton — executive produced the documentary Zurawski v Texas about the eponymous court case surrounding reproductive rights in Texas, which premiered at the 51st Telluride Film Festival.^[10] Following the release of Zurawski v Texas and the impending presidential election, Lawrence spoke of the importance of using her company to produce projects: "That's the beautiful, amazing thing about film and documentaries. Hearing facts or listening to the news, hearing certain things happen, it's very easy to forget until you actually see human existence and you see what's going on. I think that's when minds can be changed."^[11]

In 2025, the company's third feature to be released was Lynne Ramsay's dark comedy Die My Love starring Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield, and Nick Nolte; produced alongside Martin Scorsese.^[12] It premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it was picked up by Mubi for $24 million in what would be the festival's biggest sale of the year.^[13] In addition to a number of nominations received by Lawrence for her performance (including a Golden Globe Award), the producing duo received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film.^[14] The film received three other mentions on the BAFTA longlists and was shortlisted at the Oscars for cinemtographer Seamus McGarvey's work on the film.^[15][16]