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Searchlight Pictures (est. 1994), formerly Fox Searchlight Pictures, is a filmmaking subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios. It is based in Los Angeles, California, and specializes in the distribution of British and independent films in North America.
The company has produced Best Picture winners Slumdog Millionaire (2005), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Birdman (2014), and The Shape of Water (2017). Another fourteen films produced by them have become Best Picture nominations.
In 2019, Searchlight Pictures produced (with Chernin Entertainment) and released the biopic Tolkien, starring Nicholas Hoult as J.R.R. Tolkien and directed by Dome Karukoski.
