CEO Tom Quinn: How I Built Neon (and Why You Can Too)

Two best pictures ('Anora', 'Parasite'), 5 Palme d'Ors: The star exec opens his playbook — budgets, creative vision, strategy and the 'lazy' hysteria over that $18M marketing spend

WINNER’S CIRCLE “When we first started Neon, we didn’t know how to do a wide release,” says CEO Tom Quinn, foreground, surrounded by the directors of his five Palme d’Or winners, clockwise from left, Sean Baker, Justine Triet, Bong Joon-ho, Julia Ducournau and Ruben Östlund. (Photo illustration by The Ankler; image credits below)

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