Fox Searchlight Pictures is an American film distribution company established in 1994 that specializes in distributing independent, British, art-house, foreign, and horror films. It has won Best Picture at the Academy Awards three times for Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, and Birdman. Other films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Black Swan, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Slumdog Millionaire was Fox Searchlight's largest commercial success, making over $377 million against a $15 million budget.

1. INSTITUTION RESEARCH
*FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES*

2. Fox Searchlight Pictures, established in 1994, is an American film distribution
company within the Fox Entertainment Group, a sister company of the larger Fox
studio 20th Century Fox, all owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. It
specializes in North American distribution of independent 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. Fox Searchlight's Slumdog
Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, and Birdman have all won the Academy Award for
Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards, 86th Academy Awards , and 87th
Academy Awards respectively, as well as a further 12 Academy Awards combined.
Other Fox 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
and Brooklyn. 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. From 1982-1985, prior to the creation of searchlight,
Fox previously released independent films and specialty releases under the
banner of 20THCENTURY-FOX INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS, later renamed 20TH
CENTURY-FOX SPECIALISED FILM DIVISION, then TLC FILMS.

3. LOGO
The FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES logo is
quite similar to the regular 20th CENTURY-
FOX LOGO, with even Alfred newman’s
“Fanfare music” accompanying it.
It begins with the background of the city
skyline, then begins to move right through
a searchlight and it turns on, following the
background searchlights turning on, with
the drum intro of the fanfare, then zooms
to the logo, and the front searchlight faces
the viewer, ending the logo.

4. Famous films by
FOX SEARCH LIGHT

5. WHY DID I CHOOSE FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES?
I choose Fox searchlight pictures as my institution
because of the inspiration that all of its films have given
me. The concepts behind all of its films are very different
compared to films from other institutions.
Fox searchlight pictures works on a variety of genres and
themes however, my main focus was on its production
and distribution of films with the genre, drama, Fox
searchlight pictures is able to portray the worldly
problems in a light and comedic way which drives
attention of the audience towards it. On the other hand,
Fox searchlight pictures also have the capability of
portraying the serious isssues of the society through its
dramatic work in the films.