Description The light shines brightly on this specialty film division of Fox Filmed Entertainment. Rather than produce big-budget blockbusters, Fox Searchlight Pictures produces smaller specialized films in genres such as drama, comedy, horror, and science fiction. Notable titles in the Fox Searchlight canon include successful indie films such as Little Miss Sunshine, Napoleon Dynamite, and "Boys Don't Cry". More recent movies include Cyrus and Crazy Heart. Fox Searchlight was founded in 1994 by Fox Filmed Entertainment Co-Chairman Tom Rothman as the independent arm of Twentieth Century Fox. It has its own marketing and distribution operations. International distribution is handled by Twentieth Century Fox.
Fox Searchlight has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 24 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Fox Searchlight employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 85% of employees would recommend working at Fox Searchlight to a friend. This is based on 24 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
57% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Fox Searchlight as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Fox Searchlight.