Fox Searchlight Pictures is an American production company of cinema . It is a subsidiary company of the Fox Entertainment Group which is held mainly by News Corporation, the Australian group of Rupert Murdoch.

Fox Searchlight Pictures was created in 1994 like subsidiary company of Twentieth Century Fox to produce films of authors and to import with State-Plain foreign films.

Fox Searchlight Pictures contributed to launch the career of realizers such as Edward Burns ( the Brothers McMullen ), Tamara Jenkins ( Slums off Beverly Hills ), Kimberly Peirce ( Boys Don' T Cry ), Bob Dolman ( Sex fans of the sixties ), Mark Romanek ( Photo Obsession ), Jonathan Glazer ( Sexy Beast ), Miguel Arteta ( Star Maps , The Good Girl ) or Julie Taymor ( Titus ).