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"Anora" won big at the 2025 Oscars Sunday night, taking home five awards, including best picture and best director, at the 97th Academy Awards.

Sean Baker, who directed, edited, wrote and co-produced "Anora," won four Oscars at Sunday's ceremony, tying Walt Disney's record for the most Academy Awards won by a single person in one year. Baker distinguished himself by winning all four awards for the same movie, while Disney won for four different projects at the 1954 ceremony. (Bong Joon-Ho accepted four statues at the 2020 ceremony, but the win for best international feature was technically awarded to South Korea, and not him as an individual.)

"Emilia Pérez" had the most nominations this year with 13, including nods for best picture, best director, best writing and multiple acting nominations. Karla Sofía Gascón made Oscar history when she became the first transgender woman to be nominated in any acting category when she received a best actress nomination for playing the film's title role. Her Oscar campaign, however, was marred by controversy after offensive posts she made on social media surfaced. The award for best actress ultimately went to Mikey Madison, who played the title role in "Anora."

Zoe Saldaña — who became the first American of Dominican descent to win an Oscar — won best supporting actress, one of just two wins for "Emilia Pérez" on Sunday night.

"Wicked," based on the hit Broadway musical, and "The Brutalist" both came into the night with 10 nominations each, and were also competing for best picture, best director and a slew of acting nominations.

Adrian Brody won his second best actor Oscar for his role as architect László Tóth in "The Brutalist." When Brody won his first Oscar for 2002's "The Pianist" at age 29, he became the youngest person to win the award. Timothée Chalamet was also nominated for best actor for his performance as the iconic folk singer Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown," and had been hoping to break Brody's record. Also nominated in the category were Ralph Fiennes, who starred in "Conclave," Colman Domingo, and Sebastian Stan, who could have become the first person to ever win best actor for playing the sitting U.S. president had he gone home with the award.

Former "Late Night" and "The Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien helmed this year's ceremony. A two-time host of the Emmys, this was O'Brien's first time as master of ceremonies for the Academy Awards.

“Don’t mind me (😬), I just wanted to finish my train of thought from the earlier post.”

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“Anora” — Latin meaning honor, yet

I couldn’t even sort through the slop of the plot summary on the wiki page.

I’d never even heard of this movie until now, or if I had I forgot completely. I’d say I’m not missing anything, but there’s high value in the title, especially in light of the timing.

Best Picture:

Or, how to redeem even the name of a stripper (”Ani” means “I” in Hebrew, which is “Я” in Russian, Ukrainian).

I had just mentioned that “Я” around here last night, completely unaware of this movie. As a matter of fact, that post is timestamped 3 min and 4 seconds after:

7 p.m. ET
What time do the Oscars start? The live broadcast of the Oscars begins at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. You read that right: 7 p.m., not 8 p.m. as they have been in prior years.

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Я means “I”, but Я also has a name in the spelling alphabet:

Yakov
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4301565/posts?page=43#43

In the video [linked in that post] this part had jumped out:

12:33
colors I I I really really wish uh they
12:36
had been able to just you know get a
12:38
coat of paint on the stacks for one last
12:40
time she’s in really bad shape in terms
12:41
of her paint if you look at her up close
12:44
I mean metal is just flaking off there’s
12:46
no telling how much rust she is dropping
12:48
in the Atlantic as she heads
12:50
South again this is a great image I told
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Mikey needs a copyright that image he he
12:54
does he he owns the copyright to it all

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Back to Anora — “starring Mikey Madison” (come on folks, what are the odds here?!)

Wiki has a Hebrew page so while the spelling is obvious enough, there it is:

אנורה

Which permutes to ha-aron, “the” Ark —

הארון

And *that* post about the Ark getting confused with the United States was ~ 2 1/2 hours earlier —

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4301565/posts?page=30#30

Handy that she’s being towed right to where the hospital ship Comfort is sitting, waiting for her first patient after her big overhall. Apparently this can’t even wait until she departs the shipyard. Must be serious.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:455294/mmsi:368817000/imo:7390478/vessel:USNS_COMFORT

Anyone gonna argue that the United States is in desperate need of a healing?

It is customary to give a new name to a dangerously sick person. The sick person has already fulfilled his destiny according to his original name, and is therefore ready to die. We then give him a new name, thereby also giving him a new mission. The sick person can now continue to live and complete the mission associated with his new name.

https://shiratdevorah.blogspot.com/2010/11/whats-in-name.html

In ancient texts we find, “Tell me your name, and I will tell you who you are.” A person’s name encapsulates his personality, virtues, and potential, as well as the role assigned to him in this world.

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At a somewhat deeper spiritual level, we find that a person’s life unfolds according to the letters that form his name, especially in light of the possible combinations of these letters. A person’s name can influence his destiny and future for good or bad, as emerges from the Zohar: “[T]he name is of great significance and potency, and the combination of letters with one another works either for good or bad. Connected with this mystery is the combination of the letters of the holy Names, and even the letters in themselves can be made to reveal supreme mysteries” (Zohar II:179b)

https://shiratdevorah.blogspot.com/2016/12/names.html

“R” is for reverse, so would not “Я” indicate moving forward finally?

The super EZ way to remember the name of the king in the Purim story (Purim — which is all about the revealing of the hidden — is incoming on Pi Day) is by way of the iconic toy stores:

AHAS-Я-US

🤔 😇

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