Posted on 03/03/2025 10:08:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
"Anora" director, screenwriter and editor Sean Baker won four Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night, a feat only achieved by one other person: Walt Disney.
While Disney won four Oscars for four separate films in 1953 – becoming the first and only person to do so until now – Baker won four Oscars for one film, setting a new record.
Disney, the most decorated Oscar winner of all time, won for best documentary (feature), best documentary (short), best short subject (cartoon) and best short subject (two-reel) at the 26th Academy Awards. He won these awards, respectively, for "Water Birds," "The Living Desert," "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Bloom," and "Bear Country."
That year, the film phenom was nominated for six awards for six different films.
Baker's "Anora" was nominated for six awards: best picture, best original screenplay, best director, best editing, best actress (Mikey Madison) and best supporting actor (Yura Borisov).
Baker edits, directs and writes most of his films and has also served as producer and cinematographer for some. Wearing all of these hats paid off and led him to make history at the Oscars.
The film – which is about a young sex worker from New York who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, before his parents find out and put her Cinderella story in jeopardy – took home five out of the six awards it was nominated for. The only one not nabbed was best supporting actor, which went to Kieran Culkin for "A Real Pain."
And so, as the writer, editor and director of "Anora," Baker himself won four Oscars for the film, setting a record for most Oscars won by one person for a single film. Mikey Madison took home the fifth with her best actress win.
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A ripoff of Pretty Woman!
The film – which is about a young sex worker from New York “
Of course it is.
Anora grossed $41 million worldwide, standing among the lowest grossing Best Picture Oscar Winners in box office history, so yet ANOTHER movie no one every heard of ...
like Bill Maher saidon his Friday night’s Real Time monologue: the Oscars are a national rite of television-watching where we turn to each other and say, “No, I haven’t heard of that one either.”
It’s so funny that a month ago you would have been a fool not to bet on that atrocity Amelia Perez for Best Picture, but when pretty
Mild past comments from the star became public, it went from a cinematic triumph to fodder for the trash can
A film most people never even heard of. Must be so proud.
I haven’t heard of or seen any of the movies or actors/actresses mentioned. I thought it was already over about a week or two ago. I’ve given up on watching any movies that are being released, they’ve all gone down the lgbtq-whatever and woke/DEI rat hole.
I’m sticking with the classics from the late 1930s through about mid-90’s or whenever the last Harry Potter movie was released.
YAWN!!!
Let them rot in their bubble, as legacy media is doing.
We have new media and will have “new Hollywood “
Shameful.
They take away trophies from girls and women in sports,
and now they take away trophies form women in film.
Where are the groups defending women?
(the so-called feminist nowadays are actually anti-feminist)
Well, the field was very weak, am I correct? 1959 was a blockbuster year with great actors:
“Ben Hur”(Charleton Heston), Sleeping Beauty (Disney Classic), Pillow Talk Rock Hudson and Doris Day, Diary of Anne Frank (Shelley Winters), Rio Bravo (John Wayne),The Hound of the Baskervilles,
Porgy and Bess (Sidney Portier), North by Northwest (Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint), Soloman and Sheba (Yule Brenner),
Anatomy of a Murder (James Stewart, Lee Remick, George C Scott
I only watched Conan O’Brian’s boring and unfunny monologue. At one point, he said something about how Hollywood, its movies, and the ritual of the Oscars, will be around forever. I’m not too sure about that.
All the good movies have already been made.
At least that tranny flick lost.
That’s correct.
“All the good movies have already been made.”
If you love movies, buy physical media while you still can.
Hollywood loves to nominate and award Oscars when an actress plays a hooker. Madison and the director calling out support for sex workers and their choice of career path, as though it's noble work, is hilarious when you consider all the me too actresses who acted like victim hostages because they gave into Harvey Weinstein for a role in a movie.
A lot of them were sitting in the Oscar audience.
I took a lot of heat on another thread when I said that all the good music and art has already been made as well.
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