With 39 Academy Award nominations, 11 wins, and more than $400 million at the box office in just eight years, Tom Quinn has turned Neon into one of the most disruptive forces in independent cinema. The distributor behind best picture winners Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite and Sean Baker’s Anora, as well as Oz Perkins’ horror hits Longlegs — the top indie release of 2024 with $74 million domestic — and The Monkey, which earned nearly $40 million, has helped restore faith in the theatrical business.
Honored at the Zurich Summit with this year’s Game Changer Award, Quinn sat down with CAA’s Roeg Sutherland (a former Game Changer honoree) to trace an unlikely path from cataloging reels at Sam Goldwyn to building one of the premium brands in global cinema.
Quinn’s origin story doubles as a primer in entrepreneurial training. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years—it’s gone by so quickly,…
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