An American film production and distribution studio formed on 31 May 1935 by the merger of William Fox's Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures, one of Hollywood's major studios for nearly ninety years until the Walt Disney Company acquired it in 2019. In 1953 it introduced CinemaScope, the widescreen anamorphic format that began the modern era of wide theatrical projection.
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Founding YearFormed 31 May 1935 by the merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures; Fox Film itself dated to 1915. HeadquartersBurbank, California, United States 1 Connections
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Directed All That Jazz (1979), released by 20th Century Fox and winner of four Academy Awards.
The Shape of Water (2017) was released through Fox Searchlight Pictures, a 20th Century Fox label, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director.
Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009) were both distributed by 20th Century Fox.
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Burbank, California
20th Century Studios (Wikipedia)
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20th Century Studios, Inc., formerly Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, is an American film production and distribution company owned by the Walt Disney Studios, the film studios division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company.
CinemaScope (Wikipedia)
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This persuaded Spyros Skouras, the head of 20th Century Fox, that technical innovation could buoy filmmaking against the television challenge.
Sound film (Wikipedia)
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The following July, Case joined Fox Film, Hollywood's third largest studio, to found the Fox-Case Corporation.
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