Who Is Sean Baker, the Indie Filmmaker Behind Oscar Sweeper Anora?
| dc.contributor.author | Caillard, Duncan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-12-17T02:34:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-12-17T02:34:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-03-04 | |
| dc.description | 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 Karagulian) to find him. Baker’s Oscars sweep capped off a string of wins over the past year, but surprised many pundits who expected three-and-a-half hour epic The Brutalist to take home the top prize. He’s made the 97th Academy Awards one for the history books. So who is Sean Baker? [...] | |
| dc.identifier.citation | The Conversation, March 4, 2025. https://theconversation.com/who-is-sean-baker-the-indie-filmmaker-behind-oscar-sweeper-anora-251272 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.64628/AA.g94r6ufaw | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10292/20421 | |
| dc.publisher | The Conversation | |
| dc.relation.uri | https://theconversation.com/who-is-sean-baker-the-indie-filmmaker-behind-oscar-sweeper-anora-251272 | |
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| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Independent cinema | |
| dc.subject | Oscars | |
| dc.subject | Indie film | |
| dc.subject | Film directors | |
| dc.title | Who Is Sean Baker, the Indie Filmmaker Behind Oscar Sweeper Anora? | |
| dc.type | Other Form of Assessable Output | |
| pubs.elements-id | 629277 |