Searchlight Pictures

Entertainment ProvidersCalifornia, United 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 James Mangold's 8-time Academy Award nominated A Complete Unknown starring Timothee 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 Geremy Jasper's O'Dessa starring Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr., with Murray Bartlett, and Regina Hall; Andrew Stanton's In the Blink of an Eye with Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, Daveed Diggs; Hikari's Rental Family starring Brendan Fraser; Jay Roach's The Roses starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch; and Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? starring Will Arnett, Cooper, Sean Hayes, and Laura Dern.

The company also 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 and an additional 5 nominations for its first production "The Dropout," from Elizabeth Meriwether, in partnership with Hulu and 20th Studios. Searchlight Television also produced the Spanish-Language limited series "La Máquina" for Hulu and Disney+.

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