Overview

• Flynn orchestrated campaigns for Best Picture winners such as Dances with Wolves and The Silence of the Lambs
• His leadership at Gramercy Pictures and Focus Features propelled films including Fargo, The Big Lebowski and Traffic
• He began his career managing a University of Michigan theater and caught industry attention with a 1977 Star Wars halftime show for United Artists Theaters
• Flynn died May 23 at Providence Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica following a four-year battle with renal cancer, as confirmed by his partner Timothy Kraus
• He is survived by his partner of 43 years, Timothy Kraus, along with sisters, nieces and nephews, and will be celebrated later in Los Angeles