Sean Baker has won best director at the Oscars for “Anora,” the story of a Brooklyn exotic dancer who marries the impetuous ...

"Anora" director Sean Baker made history at the 2025 Oscars Sunday night. Baker broke the record for most competitive wins ...

LOS ANGELES — Last fall, Sean Baker was sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, talking about a poll. The survey, about sex in movies and television, showed that Gen Z moviegoers were mostly turned o ...

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Baker has a history of making ultra-low-budget, independent films, but has always seemingly come up short. Not this time. ...

Baker’s four Oscars for “Anora” are validation of his sensitive portrayals of people on the margins who always seem to come ...

By winning the Oscars for director, original screenplay, film editing and best picture (as a producer), he tied the record ...

Sean Baker won Academy Awards on Sunday night for writing, editing and directing his film Anora, a Cinderella story set in Brooklyn's Russian emigre communities of Brighton Beach and Coney Island. By ...

Baker conceived of the film as being rooted in a home invasion scene. Madison gets her screams in — and some punches — when ...

If you didn't know Sean Baker's name before Sunday night, you definitely do now. The director made history at the 97th ...

A rags to riches tale for 2025, the film begins with Mikey Madison’s Anora, or Ani as she prefers to be called, working as a stripper at a Midtown Manhattan ... When Baker frames her face ...

Baker won the best director award for his film 'Anora' on Saturday, and took the opportunity to advocate for keeping the indie film genre alive. By Beatrice Verhoeven Deputy Awards Editor “Indie ...