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Who is Sean Baker, the indie filmmaker behind Oscar sweeper Anora?

Sean Baker made history at the 2025 Academy Awards by winning four Oscars for his film Anora, including Best Picture and Best Director, making him the first to achieve this feat for the same film.
Mikey Madison, the lead actress of Anora, won Best Actress, surprising many by defeating frontrunner Demi Moore.
Baker expressed his support for theatrical moviegoing during his acceptance speech, highlighting the importance of shared experiences in times of division.
Baker criticized Hollywood's focus on blockbusters and emphasized the importance of independent films, urging studios to support theatrical releases.

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Who is Sean Baker, the indie filmmaker behind Oscar sweeper Anora?

Director Sean Baker has made history by becoming the first person to win four Academy Awards in the same night for the same film – Anora – taking home prizes for original screenplay, film editing, directing and best picture. Anora centres on Ani (Mikey Madison), a Brooklyn sex worker entangled with Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), the immature son of a Russian oligarch. After Ivan disappears, Ani searches through New York with his handler Toros (Karren …

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'Anora' Took Hollywood by Storm. Here's What It Says About Power, Class and Sex.

Sean Baker’s Anora invites our capacities for feelings, not judgment, to accompany one young, female sex worker through a few roller-coaster, genre-defying weeks in her life. Like all of Sean Baker’s films, it refuses an ending that tells us what to think. It doesn’t tie things up and lead us to a morally unambiguous conclusion but to the perfect, emotionally right one. And the magic of it is that it does it without much being said. While the co…

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Meet Sean Baker, the 'Anora' director who made Oscar history with his $6 million movie

Sean Baker holding his four Oscars for "Anora" at the 97th Academy Awards.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic"Anora" director Sean Baker made history at the Oscars on Sunday.He won each of his four nominations, including the biggest prize of the night, best picture.The indie filmmaker previously told BI he doesn't try to make his films more palatable to studios.If you didn't know Sean Baker's name before Sunday night, you definitely do now.The director made …

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Replay: ‘Anora’ won top prizes at Cannes and Oscars. How did Sean Baker direct it?

“Anora” won Best Picture at the Oscars on Sunday, and director Sean Baker took home four awards total. He explains how having a bigger budget and professional actors changed his filmmaking process.

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‘Anora’ director Sean Baker made an impassioned plea for movie theaters. Americans are unlikely to listen

At last night’s Academy Awards, the standout star proved to be the indie film Anora, which raked in a whopping five awards on a budget of only $6 million. When director Sean Baker took the stage to accept his Oscar for best director, he used the moment to issue a call to action: a plea to the industry to reinvest in movie theaters. “Watching a film in the theater with an audience is an experience,” Baker told the crowd. “We can laugh together, c…

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‘Anora’ Director Who Won Record 4 Oscars: Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized

Film director Sean Baker, who won a record four Oscars on Sunday night for his movie “Anora,” told reporters afterward that he wants sex work decriminalized. “Anora” is about a prostitute who marries the young son of a Russian oligarch. The boy’s parents object to the marriage, and ultimately they split up. “So I’ve been ...

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Who is Sean Baker, the indie filmmaker behind Oscar sweeper Anora?

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Who is Sean Baker, the indie filmmaker behind Oscar sweeper Anora?

Who is Sean Baker, the indie filmmaker behind Oscar sweeper Anora?

'Anora' Took Hollywood by Storm. Here's What It Says About Power, Class and Sex.

'Anora' Took Hollywood by Storm. Here's What It Says About Power, Class and Sex.

Meet Sean Baker, the 'Anora' director who made Oscar history with his $6 million movie

Meet Sean Baker, the 'Anora' director who made Oscar history with his $6 million movie

Replay: ‘Anora’ won top prizes at Cannes and Oscars. How did Sean Baker direct it?

Replay: ‘Anora’ won top prizes at Cannes and Oscars. How did Sean Baker direct it?

‘Anora’ director Sean Baker made an impassioned plea for movie theaters. Americans are unlikely to listen

‘Anora’ director Sean Baker made an impassioned plea for movie theaters. Americans are unlikely to listen

‘Anora’ Director Who Won Record 4 Oscars: Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized

‘Anora’ Director Who Won Record 4 Oscars: Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized

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