---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-015462"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KODK"
cik: "0000031235"
company_name: "EASTMAN KODAK CO"
filed_at: "2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T18:38:09.426255+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eastman Kodak shareholders elect directors, approve say-on-pay, ratify auditor at 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- All seven director nominees elected; votes for ranged from ~36.7M to ~44.5M, with ~22.6M broker non-votes.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 43.5M for, 1.3M against, 126k abstentions.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor passed: 67.1M for, 358k against, 143k abstentions.
- Total votes entitled: 90.3M; quorum achieved with 67.6M votes present or represented.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-015462
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KODK
- cik: 0000031235
- company_name: EASTMAN KODAK CO
- filed_at: 2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31235/000143774923015462/0001437749-23-015462-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31235/000143774923015462/ekc20230522_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  EASTMAN KODAK CO shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent registered public accounting firm at the 2023-05-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-17
  source text: Shareholders ratified the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm to serve a one-year term, as set forth below:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31235/000143774923015462/0001437749-23-015462-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  EASTMAN KODAK CO shareholders approved Advisory vote on the compensation of Named Executive Officers at the 2023-05-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-17
  source text: Shareholders approved, through an advisory vote, the compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers (as set forth in the definitive Proxy Statement), as set forth below:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31235/000143774923015462/0001437749-23-015462-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  EASTMAN KODAK CO shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-17 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-17
  source text: Shareholders elected each of the Company’s nominees for director to serve a term of one year to expire at the 2024 Annual Meeting of shareholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified, as set forth below:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31235/000143774923015462/0001437749-23-015462-index.htm

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