“When considering the strategic acquisition of 21st Century Fox, and its direct contribution to long-term shareholder value, the Board decided it was imperative that Bob Iger remain as Chairman and CEO through 2021 to provide the vision and proven leadership required to successfully complete and integrate the largest, most complex acquisition in the Company’s history. 21st Century Fox. These are assets formerly owned by 21st Century Fox before its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company with the several assets spun off to the Fox Corporation and other third-party companies. Fox Entertainment Group. 20th Century Fox. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. 21st Century Fox is on a mission to secure its industry-leading content that delights 1.8 billion subscribers on six continents. Providing creatives with the tools they love, while ensuring they have the right level of access at the right time, is key to producing and protecting that content.
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc. is an American film studio that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. As a sister studio company of the larger fox film studio 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight specializes in North American production of independent, European, and British films alongside comedy-drama, horror, art-house, and foreign films, all of which the studio sometimes finances.
Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, and The Shape of Water have all won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st, 86th, 87th, and 90th Academy Awards respectively, as well as a further 15 Academy Awards combined. Other 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, Brooklyn, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Favourite. Slumdog Millionaire is also the studio's largest commercial success, with over $377 million (US) of box office receipts, against a production budget of only $15 million.
Fox Searchlight Pictures is one of the Fox film studios that was acquired by Disney on March 20, 2019.
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