Fox Searchlight Pictures was established in 1994 as a film distribution company within Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox media group. It specializes in distributing independent, British, art-house and foreign films, as well as drama and horror films. Fox Searchlight has had three films win the Academy Award for Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, and Birdman. These films and others distributed by Fox Searchlight have received a total of 12 Academy Awards. The author chose to focus on Fox Searchlight because it produces and distributes films addressing social issues across many genres, which is similar to the film the author plans to make.

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.

3. Fox Searchlight's Slum dog 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. Slum dog Millionaire is
also Searchlight's largest commercial success,
with over $377 million (US) of box office

4. Why did I choose fox search light
pictures?
The reason I chose this institution is because of
its uniqueness in terms of context and content as
compared to other institutions. Fox search light
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. This
institution caters to all sorts of social issues by
portraying them in the films. Its production and
distribution is very similar to the film that I will
be making this year. Which addresses a very
important social issue.