Searchlight Pictures, Inc. (formerly Fox Searchlight Pictures) is an American film studio within Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company, that focuses primarily on producing, distributing, and acquiring specialty films.
Searchlight is best known for distributing the films Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, and The Shape of Water, all of which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Other Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Black Swan, 127 Hours, The Tree of Life, The Descendants, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Brooklyn, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Favourite, and Jojo Rabbit. The studio has grossed over $5.3 billion worldwide and amassed 26 Golden Globe Awards, 47 BAFTA awards, and 40 Academy Awards. Slumdog Millionaire is the studio's largest commercial success, with over $377 million (US) of box office receipts, against a production budget of only $15 million.[3]
Searchlight Pictures was one of the 21st Century Fox film production companies that was acquired by Disney on March 20, 2019.
