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After taking home five Palme d’Ors in a row at Cannes, NEON has translated its second Croisette top prize, Anora, to an Oscar Best Picture win.
The last time this happened for the Tom Quinn-founded-and-run studio was when 2019 Palme d’Or winner Parasite went on to an Oscar Best Picture win in pre Covid 2020.
Anora won a total of five Oscars including Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director all for filmmaker Sean Baker, as well as a surprise win for Best Actress, Mikey Madison who played the title character.
That’s one more than the sum Oscar total of Parasite which won four Oscars. In addition to Best Picture, the movie took home best director and original screenplay for director Bong Joon Ho as well as Best International Feature Film.
Anora cost $6M and NEON acquired the movie in November 2023. The movie remains Baker’s highest grossing movie ever of his career with $15.6M domestic, and close to $41M worldwide.
Among its tear this awards season, Anora has won Best Picture at the Critics Choice, DGA for Baker, the top prize at the PGAs, and original screenplay at the WGAs.
Since the movie’s rally at Cannes where the sex worker pic won the Palme d’Or, Baker has rallied for moviegoing, and is a true patriot to the cinema-making artform.
In addition to making waves at the Oscars and Cannes, NEON has been making a name of late for itself in the genre space with Oz Perkins’ Longlegs last summer, which ranks as the distrib’s highest opening ($22.4M domestic opening) and overall grossing title with $74.3M stateside and $126.9M WW. Recently, NEON opened their second movie with Perkins, The Monkey, based on the Stephen King short story, to $14M. The movie currently counts $24.5M stateside, and $31.2M global.
