Searchlight Pictures

Searchlight Pictures (formely Fox Searchlight Pictures) is an American film studio that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, itself a division of The Walt Disney Company. A sister company of 20th Century Studios, Searchlight specializes in North American distribution of independent, European and British films alongside dramedy and horror films as well as art-house and foreign films and is sometimes also involved in the financing of these films.
Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, and The Shape of Water have all won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards, 86th Academy Awards, 87th Academy Awards, and 90th Academy Awards respectively, as well as a further 15 Academy Awards combined. Other Searchlight films receiving 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 and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Slumdog Millionaire is also Searchlight's largest commercial success, with over $377 million (US) of box office receipts, against a production budget of only $15 million.
Searchlight Pictures is one of the Fox film studios that was acquired by Disney on March 20, 2019.
==History==
Searchlight Pictures was founded in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Pictures by Thomas Rothman. From 1982 to 1985, prior to the creation of Searchlight, Fox previously released independent films and specialty releases under the banner of 20th Century-Fox International Classics, later renamed 20th Century-Fox Specialized Film Division, then TLC Films. The most notable of the releases under these banners include Bill Cosby: Himself, Eating Raoul, The Gods Must Be Crazy, 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. Fox Atomic closed down in 2009.
==List of releases==
===1990s===
Release Date 	Film Title 	Notes
August 11, 1995 	The Brothers McMullen 	first Fox Searchlight Pictures film
March 22, 1996 	Girl 6 	
June 14, 1996 	Stealing Beauty 	
August 23, 1996 	She's the One 	
October 11, 1996 	Looking for Richard 	
February 21, 1997 	Blood and Wine 	
February 28, 1997 	Smilla's Sense of Snow 	
March 28, 1997 	Love and Other Catastrophes	
April 11, 1997 	Paradise Road 	
May 16, 1997 	The Van 	
June 6, 1997 	Intimate Relations 	
July 25, 1997 	Star Maps 	
August 15, 1997 	The Full Monty 	
October 31, 1997 	The Ice Storm 	
January 2, 1998 	Oscar and Lucinda 	
April 24, 1998 	Two Girls and a Guy 	
May 1, 1998 	Shooting Fish 	
May 22, 1998 	Slums of Beverly Hills 	
June 12, 1998 	Cousin Bette 	
July 17, 1998 	Polish Wedding 	co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment
October 2, 1998 	The Impostors 	
November 20, 1998 	Waking Ned 	
February 26, 1999 	20 Dates 	
March 26, 1999 	Among Giants 	
April 30, 1999 	A Midsummer Night's Dream 	co-production with Regency Enterprises
September 10, 1999	Best Laid Plans 	
September 10, 1999	Whiteboyz 	
October 8, 1999 	Boys Don't Cry 	
October 29, 1999 	Dreaming of Joseph Lees 	
December 24, 1999 	Titus 	
===2000s===
Release Date 	Film Title 	Notes
February 25, 2000 	The Closer You Get 	
March 17, 2000 	Soft Fruit 	
September 1, 2000 	Chinese Coffee 	
September 22, 2000	Woman on Top 	
October 6, 2000 	Bootmen 	
November 24, 2000 	Quills 	
April 13, 2001 	Kingdom Come 	
June 15, 2001 	Sexy Beast 	
August 10, 2001 	The Deep End 	
October 19, 2001 	Waking Life 	First animated film from the studio; co-production with Thousand Words
February 15, 2002 	Super Troopers 	
March 15, 2002 	Kissing Jessica Stein 	
August 9, 2002 	The Good Girl 	
August 23, 2002 	One Hour Photo 	
September 20, 2002	The Banger Sisters 	
October 11, 2002 	Brown Sugar 	
December 20, 2002 	Antwone Fisher 	
March 14, 2003 	Bend It Like Beckham 	
March 21, 2003 	L'Auberge espagnole 	
April 4, 2003 	The Good Thief 	
May 2, 2003 	The Dancer Upstairs 	
June 27, 2003 	28 Days Later 	
July 18, 2003 	Garage Days 	
July 25, 2003 	Lucia, Lucia 	Release in US
August 8, 2003 	Le Divorce 	
August 22, 2003 	Thirteen 	co-production with Working Title Films
November 28, 2003 	In America 	
February 6, 2004 	The Dreamers 	
February 27, 2004 	Club Dread 	
March 26, 2004 	Never Die Alone 	
April 9, 2004 	Johnson Family Vacation 	
June 11, 2004 	Napoleon Dynamite 	co-production with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films
July 2, 2004 	The Clearing 	
July 30, 2004 	Garden State 	co-production with Miramax Films
October 1, 2004 	I Heart Huckabees 	
October 22, 2004 	Sideways 	
November 12, 2004 	Kinsey 	
March 11, 2005 	Millions 	
March 18, 2005 	Melinda and Melinda 	
September 16, 2005	Separate Lies 	
September 23, 2005	Roll Bounce 	as Fox 2000 Pictures; co-production with State Street Pictures
November 11, 2005 	Bee Season 	co-production with Regency Enterprises
December 23, 2005 	The Ringer 	
January 27, 2006 	Imagine Me & You 	
February 17, 2006 	Night Watch 	
March 10, 2006 	The Hills Have Eyes 	
March 17, 2006 	Thank You for Smoking 	
April 7, 2006 	Phat Girlz 	
April 28, 2006 	Water 	
July 28, 2006 	Little Miss Sunshine 	
August 18, 2006 	Trust the Man 	
September 15, 2006	Confetti 	
September 29, 2006	The Last King of Scotland 	
November 17, 2006 	Fast Food Nation 	
November 24, 2006 	The History Boys 	
December 22, 2006 	Notes on a Scandal 	
March 9, 2007 	The Namesake 	
March 16, 2007 	I Think I Love My Wife 	co-production with UTV Motion Pictures
May 11, 2007 	28 Weeks Later 	
May 18, 2007 	Once 	
May 25, 2007 	Waitress 	
June 1, 2007 	Day Watch 	
July 6, 2007 	Joshua 	
July 27, 2007 	Sunshine 	
October 26, 2007 	The Darjeeling Limited 	Co-production with Indian Paintbrush
November 30, 2007 	The Savages 	
December 7, 2007 	Juno 	
March 28, 2008 	La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon)	co-distributed with The Weinstein Company
April 11, 2008 	Young@Heart 	
April 11, 2008 	Street Kings 	distribution only; produced by Regency Enterprises and 3 Arts Entertainment
September 26, 2008	Choke 	
October 17, 2008 	The Secret Life of Bees 	
November 14, 2008 	Slumdog Millionaire 	Won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2009, co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Celador Films, Film4 and Pathé.
December 19, 2008 	The Wrestler 	
January 16, 2009 	Notorious 	
March 13, 2009 	Miss March 	as Fox 2000 Pictures
June 5, 2009 	My Life in Ruins 	
July 17, 2009 	(500) Days of Summer 	
July 31, 2009 	Adam 	
October 2, 2009 	Whip It 	
October 23, 2009 	Amelia 	
October 30, 2009 	Gentlemen Broncos 	
December 18, 2009 	Crazy Heart 	
===2010s===
Release Date 	Film Title 	Notes
February 12, 2010 	My Name Is Khan 	Bollywood film co-produced with Dharma Productions; U.S. distribution only
March 12, 2010 	Our Family Wedding 	
May 14, 2010 	Just Wright 	
June 18, 2010 	Cyrus 	
September 17, 2010	Never Let Me Go 	
October 15, 2010 	Conviction 	
November 26, 2010 	127 Hours 	
December 3, 2010 	Black Swan 	
February 11, 2011 	Cedar Rapids 	
March 18, 2011 	Win Win 	
April 22, 2011 	Dum Maro Dum 	
May 27, 2011 	The Tree of Life 	
June 17, 2011 	The Art of Getting By 	
July 15, 2011 	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 	
July 22, 2011 	Another Earth 	
September 30, 2011	Margaret 	
October 21, 2011 	Martha Marcy May Marlene 	
November 18, 2011 	The Descendants 	
December 2, 2011 	Shame 	
April 27, 2012 	Sound of My Voice 	
May 4, 2012 	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 	
June 8, 2012 	Lola Versus 	
June 29, 2012 	Beasts of the Southern Wild 	
July 6, 2012 	The Do-Deca-Pentathlon 	
July 27, 2012 	Ruby Sparks 	
October 19, 2012 	The Sessions 	
November 23, 2012 	Hitchcock 	
March 1, 2013 	Stoker 	
April 5, 2013 	Trance 	
May 31, 2013 	The East 	
July 5, 2013 	The Way, Way Back 	
September 20, 2013	Enough Said 	
September 27, 2013	Baggage Claim 	
October 18, 2013 	12 Years a Slave 	Won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2014,
co-production with Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment, Film4 and Plan B Entertainment
November 29, 2013 	Black Nativity 	
March 7, 2014 	The Grand Budapest Hotel 	co-production with Indian Paintbrush
April 4, 2014 	Dom Hemingway 	
May 2, 2014 	Belle 	
July 18, 2014 	I Origins 	
August 1, 2014 	Calvary 	
September 12, 2014	The Drop 	as Fox 2000 Pictures
October 17, 2014 	Birdman 	Won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2015,
co-production with Regency Enterprises
December 5, 2014 	Wild 	
March 6, 2015 	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 	
April 17, 2015 	True Story 	co-production with Regency Enterprises and QED International
May 1, 2015 	Far From the Madding Crowd 	
June 12, 2015 	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 	co-production with Indian Paintbrush
August 14, 2015 	Mistress America 	
October 2, 2015 	He Named Me Malala 	
November 6, 2015 	Brooklyn 	
December 4, 2015 	Youth 	
April 8, 2016 	Demolition 	
May 4, 2016 	A Bigger Splash 	
July 22, 2016 	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie 	
October 7, 2016 	The Birth of a Nation 	
December 2, 2016 	Jackie 	
February 10, 2017 	A United Kingdom 	
March 3, 2017 	Table 19 	
March 24, 2017 	Wilson 	
April 7, 2017 	Gifted 	
June 9, 2017 	My Cousin Rachel 	
August 4, 2017 	STEP 	
August 18, 2017 	Patti Cake$ 	
September 22, 2017	Battle of the Sexes 	
October 13, 2017 	Goodbye Christopher Robin 	
November 10, 2017 	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	co-production with Film4
December 1, 2017 	The Shape of Water 	Won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018; co-production with TSG Entertainment and Double Dare You Productions
March 23, 2018 	Isle of Dogs 	Second animated film from the studio; co-production with Indian Paintbrush and American Empirical Pictures
April 20, 2018 	Super Troopers 2 	co-production with Broken Lizard Industries and Cataland Films
September 28, 2018	The Old Man & the Gun 	
October 19, 2018 	Can You Ever Forgive Me? 	
November 23, 2018 	The Favourite 	co-production with Film4, Waypoint Entertainment, Scarlet Films, Element Pictures and Arcana
March 15, 2019 	The Aftermath 	Last film that was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures as a standalone studio and distributor.
May 10, 2019 	Tolkien 	co-production with Chernin Entertainment.First film of Fox Searchlight Pictures to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
===Upcoming films===
Release Date 	Film Title 	Notes
August 23, 2019 	Ready or Not 	co-production with Mythology Entertainment and Vinson Films
October 18, 2019	Jojo Rabbit 	
TBA 	Lucy in the Sky 	
TBA 	Antlers 	
TBA 	The French Dispatch 	
TBA 	Downhill 	will be first film under the Searchlight Pictures name
TBA 	Nomadland 	
TBA 	Wendy 	
TBA 	Untitled Tammy Faye biopic	
==External links==
*searchlightpictures.com
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