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Fox Searchlight Pictures

Fox Searchlight Pictures
Company nameFox Searchlight Pictures
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryEntertainment industry
FoundedLos Angeles, California, USA (1994)
HeadquartersCentury City, Los Angeles, United States
Key peopleStephen A. Gilula, Co-President
Nancy Utley, Co-President
ProductsMotion pictures
Revenue(+) $6.50 million (2007)
Owner(s)News Corporation
Parent20th Century Fox
DivisionsFox Palmtree Studios

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Fox Searchlight Pictures, established in 1994, is a film division of Fox Filmed Entertainment alongside the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox. It specializes in independent and British films, alongside dramedy and horror as well as non-English-language films, and is variously involved with the production and/or distribution of these films.

In the early-to-mid 1980s, prior to the creation of Searchlight, Fox previously released independent films under the banner of 20th Century-Fox International Classics; the most notable of the releases under this banner include Bill Cosby: Himself, Reuben, Reuben, and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

In 2006, a sub-label, Fox Atomic, was created to produce and/or distribute genre films. Its first release was Turistas. Fox Atomic closed down in 2009.

As is the case with Fox's television unit, all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company (with some exceptions) read "© (respective year) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation".

Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Black Swan and 127 Hours.


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