“Anora” director Sean Baker ties Walt Disney for many Oscar wins in a single night time and units his personal document
“Anora” director, screenwriter and editor Sean Baker gained 4 Oscars on the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night time, a feat solely achieved by one different particular person: Walt Disney.
Whereas Disney gained 4 Oscars for 4 separate movies in 1953 — turning into the primary and solely particular person to take action till now — Baker gained 4 Oscars for one movie, setting a brand new document.
Disney, essentially the most adorned Oscar winner of all time, gained for greatest documentary (function), greatest documentary (quick), greatest quick topic (cartoon) and greatest quick topic (two-reel) on the twenty sixth Academy Awards. He gained these awards, respectively, for “Water Birds,” “The Dwelling Desert,” “Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Bloom,” and “Bear Nation.”
That 12 months, the movie phenom was nominated for six awards for six totally different movies.
Baker’s “Anora” was nominated for six awards: greatest image, greatest authentic screenplay, greatest director, greatest enhancing, greatest actress (Mikey Madison) and greatest supporting actor (Yura Borisov).
Baker edits, directs and writes most of his movies and has additionally served as producer and cinematographer for some. Sporting all of those hats paid off and led him to make historical past on the Oscars.
The movie — which is a couple of younger intercourse employee from New York who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, earlier than his dad and mom discover out and put her Cinderella story in jeopardy — took residence 5 out of the six awards it was nominated for. The one one not nabbed was greatest supporting actor, which went to Kieran Culkin for “A Actual Ache.”
As the author, editor and director of “Anora,” Baker himself gained 4 Oscars for the movie, setting a document for many Oscars gained by one particular person for a single movie. Mikey Madison took residence the fifth together with her greatest actress win.
In his remarks on stage after profitable the Oscar for greatest enhancing, Baker stated solely three people are allowed within the enhancing room with him.
“These three individuals are Samantha Quan, my spouse and producer, Alex Coco, my unimaginable fellow producer, and my canine, Bunson, he gave me some fairly good notes,” Baker joked.
That is the primary 12 months Baker himself has been nominated by the Academy. In 2018, Willem Defoe, who starred in Baker’s “The Florida Challenge,” earned a greatest supporting actor nomination.
Baker, whose spouse, Samathan Quan, co-produced “Anora,” revealed to NPR that he had a $6 million price range for the unbiased movie, distributed by Neon. The movie solely took 40 days to movie, with 10 days of capturing going to at least one notorious scene inside a mansion in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, in response to director of pictures Drew Daniels.
The movie went on to gross greater than $40 million worldwide and likewise gained the Palme d’Or — the very best award for administrators of function movies — on the Cannes Movie Pageant, plus two BAFTAs and a Critics Selection Award.
Throughout his acceptance speech for greatest director, Baker inspired audiences to return to film theaters to see movies, saying “the theater-going expertise is underneath risk.”
“Watching a movie in a theater with an viewers is an expertise. We are able to snort collectively, cry collectively. And in a time through which our world can really feel very divided, that is extra essential than ever: It is a communal expertise you merely do not get at residence,” he stated.
Throughout his acceptance speech for greatest authentic screenplay, he thanked the intercourse employee neighborhood, as the primary character in “Anora” works in a strip membership and is employed as an escort. “They’ve shared their tales. They’ve shared life experiences with me through the years. My deepest respect. Thanks. I share this with you,” he stated.
