“Anora” director, screenwriter and editor Sean Baker won four Oscars 97th Academy Awards On Sunday night, feat only others achieved: Walt Disney.
Disney won four Oscars in 1953 with four independent films, but became the first and only person to date, while Baker won four Oscars in one film and set up a new record.
The most decorated Oscar winner of all time, Disney won the 26th Academy Awards with Best Documentary (Features), Best Documentary (Short), Best Short Subject (Comics), and Best Short Subject (2 Reels). He won these awards for “Waterfly”, “Living Desert”, “Toot, Whistle, Planck, Brook” and “Bear Country” respectively.
That year, the film’s Phenom was nominated for six awards for six different films.
Baker’s “Anora” was nominated for six awards. Best photosthe best original script, the best director, the best editing, The best actress (Mikey Madison) and the best supporting actor (Yura Borisov).
Baker edited, directed, wrote, produced and cinematized most of his films. Wearing all these hats, he began making history at Oscars.
The film is about a young sex worker from New York who marries the son of a Russian oligarch before his parents endanger her Cinderella story. The only person not Nabbed went to Kieran Culkin for “real pain.”
As the writer, editor and director of “Anora,” Baker himself won four Oscars in the film and set most Oscars records for one film. Mikey Madison took home the fifth in her best actress victory.
In his remarks on stage after winning an Oscar for Best Editing, Baker said only three people were allowed in the editorial room along with him.
“These three are Samantha Quan, my wife and producer Alex Coco, my incredible fellow producer and my dog, Vanson, gave me a pretty good note,” Baker joked.
This was the first year Baker himself was nominated for the Academy. In 2018, Willem Dafoe, who appeared in Baker’s “The Florida Project,” received the highest supporting actor nomination.
Baker, who co-produced “Anola,” has revealed to NPR that he has a $6 million budget for independent films distributed by Neon. According to photography director Drew Daniels, the film only took 40 days to shoot.
The film has totaled over $40 million worldwide and won the Cannes Film Festival Parmedore, the highest award for feature film directors, as well as two bufftas and the Critics’ Choice Award.
In a acceptance speech by Best Director, Baker encouraged audiences to go back to the cinemas and watch the film, saying “the experience leading up to the theatre is under threat.”
“Watching a movie in the theatre with the audience is an experience. We can laugh together and cry together. And in a time when our world can be very divided, this is more important than ever.
As the protagonist of “Anola” works in a strip club and is employed as an escort, he thanked the sex worker community and thanked the sex worker community. “They shared their stories. They have shared life experiences with me over the years. My deep respect. Thank you. I will share it with you,” he said.
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