Searchlight Pictures

Entertainment ProvidersUnited States51-200 Employees

Searchlight Pictures is a global specialty film and television company that develops, produces, finances and acquires motion pictures and series for both worldwide theatrical and streaming releases. It has its own marketing and distribution operations, and is part of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Founded in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Pictures, the company’s titles have grossed over $5 billion worldwide, amassing 52 Academy Awards including five Best Picture winners since 2009:  Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, The Shape of Water, and Nomadland; 64 BAFTA Awards; 35 Golden Globe Awards, and 10 Grammy Awards. Searchlight recently released Geremy Jasper's O'Dessa starring Sadie Sink; James Mangold’s 8-time Academy Award nominated A Complete Unknown starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan; Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch starring Amy Adams; Academy-Award winner A Real Pain, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin; and Yorgos Lanthimos’ 4-time Academy Award winner  Poor Things, starring and produced by Emma Stone. Upcoming releases include Jay Roach’s The Roses starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch; HIKARI’s Rental Family starring Brendan Fraser; Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern; Ready or Not 2: Here I Come from directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett; and Andrew Stanton's In The Blink of an Eye with Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, and Daveed Diggs. The company includes Searchlight Television, the division which develops and produces series for streaming, network, and cable partners, and earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress for its first production “The Dropout'' from Elizabeth Meriwether, in partnership with Hulu and 20th Studios. Searchlight Television also produced the limited series “La Máquina,” with Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.

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