20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc.
	Logo used since 2020
	Fox Studio Lot in Century City, Los Angeles
Formerly	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; (1935–1985); Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ; (1985–2020);
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Film
Predecessors	Fox Film; Twentieth Century Pictures;
Founded	May 31, 1935
Founders	Joseph M. Schenck; Darryl F. Zanuck; William Fox;
Headquarters	Fox Studio Lot Building 88, 10201 West Pico Boulevard, Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	David Greenbaum (president); Steve Asbell (president, production);
Products	Motion pictures
Number of employees	2,300 (2018)
Parent	News Corporation; (1985–2013); Fox Entertainment Group; (1990–2019); Walt Disney Studios; (2019–present);
Divisions	20th Century Animation; 20th Century Family; 20th Century Games; 20th Century Comics;
Website	www.20thcenturystudios.com
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20th Century Studios, Inc., formerly 20th Century Fox, 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. It is headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles, which is leased from Fox Corporation. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by this studio in theatrical markets.

For over 80 years, 20th Century has been one of the major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation by the merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures, and one of the original "Big Five" among eight majors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1985, the studio removed the hyphen in the name (becoming Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) after being acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which was renamed 21st Century Fox in 2013 after it spun off its publishing assets. Disney purchased most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which included 20th Century Fox, on March 20, 2019. The studio adopted its current name on January 17, 2020, in order to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, and subsequently started to use it for the copyright of 20th Century and Searchlight Pictures productions on December 4. 20th Century is currently one of five live-action film studios within the Walt Disney Studios, alongside Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and its sister speciality unit, Searchlight Pictures. 20th Century also releases animated films produced by its animation division 20th Century Animation.

The most commercially successful film franchises from 20th Century Studios include the first six Star Wars films, X-Men, Ice Age, Avatar, and Planet of the Apes. Additionally, the studio's library includes many notable films such as The Sound of Music and Titanic, both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and became the highest-grossing films of all time during their initial releases.