NEON Information

In only nine years, NEON has garnered 57 Academy Award® nominations, winning Best Picture for Sean Baker’s Anora and Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite. This year, NEON received 18 Oscar nominations, the second most for any motion picture studio behind Warner Bros. Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent were both nominated for Best Picture, with Sentimental Value ultimately winning the award for Best International Film – bringing the studio’s total to 11 wins. NEON continues to champion bold, risk-taking cinema and has built an impressive streak winning the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, with six consecutive wins, including this most recent year’s winner It Was Just an Accident, as well as Anora, Parasite, Anatomy of a Fall, Titane, and Triangle of Sadness. In 2024, NEON was named The Hollywood Reporter’s Independent Studio of the Year and received the Clio Award for Studio of the Year. As a burgeoning leader in the production space, NEON’s recent and upcoming in-house productions include: Boots Riley feature I Love Boosters which premiered to rave reviews in SXSW and will be released in May, and David Robert Mitchell’s They Follow. NEON has grossed over half-a-billion at the box office, highlights include Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, which was the highest grossing independent film of 2024 at $75 million domestically, and his follow-up feature The Monkey, NEON’s second highest opening. The studio is currently in post on its fourth Perkins film, The Young People. Their upcoming slate includes notable auteurs such as Chloe Domont, Cristian Mungiu, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Chloe Okuno, Takashi Miike. NEON’s recent releases include Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie and Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. Up next: Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers; Hokum starring Adam Scott; Alex Ullom’s It Ends; and Sundance hit Leviticus.