Caillard, Duncan2025-12-172025-12-172025-03-04The Conversation, March 4, 2025. https://theconversation.com/who-is-sean-baker-the-indie-filmmaker-behind-oscar-sweeper-anora-251272http://hdl.handle.net/10292/20421Director 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? [...]CC BY ND. We believe in the free flow of information. Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under Creative Commons licence.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/Independent cinemaOscarsIndie filmFilm directorsOther Form of Assessable OutputOpenAccesshttps://doi.org/10.64628/AA.g94r6ufaw