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Neon Shines Brightly With Six For Six Palme d’Or Winners After Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’


Call them a barometer, clairvoyant, or just god damn shrewd when it comes to choosing award-winning movies, but NEON has just scored its sixth Cannes Palme d’Or in a row with It Was Just an Accident. Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman first reported two days ago that NEON scooped up North American rights to the movie. This […]

'It Was Just An Accident'M2K Films Call them a barometer, clairvoyant, or just god damn shrewd when it comes to choosing award-winning movies, but NEON has just scored its sixth Cannes Palme d’Or in a row with It Was Just an Accident. Out of that bunch, Anora and Parasite went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars, which is whole other level of award campaigning genius on behalf of the Tom Quinn run distribution label. In addition, NEON took Brazil’s buzzy 1977 political thriller The Secret Agent earlier this week, that Kleber Mendonca Filho directed movie walking away with Best Director tonight as well as Best Actor for Wagner Moura.

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