Anora review: Mikey Madison delivers a star-making performance in Sean Baker's wild fairy tale gone haywire
5 days, 4 hours ago

Anora review: Mikey Madison delivers a star-making performance in Sean Baker's wild fairy tale gone haywire

Hindustan Times  

Anora review: There's a curious case of censorship hidden somewhere in the delayed release of Anora, Sean Baker's delightful and heartbreaking screwball tragicomedy of sorts. The fairytale ends soon Baker films this entire passage with extraordinary vivacity, observing Ani's wide-eyed wonder from a distance. Mikey Madison is breathtaking Anora is ultimately a tale of class and privilege, a story of an unlikely group of people constantly made aware that they are powerless in the hands of the rich. The final gut punch of Anora is in Sean Baker's decision to suggest what these characters will do after the movie ends.

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Notes from the sidelines: Deepanjana Pal writes on Anora and Sthal
1 week, 2 days ago

Notes from the sidelines: Deepanjana Pal writes on Anora and Sthal

Hindustan Times  

The year is 2025 and Anora, an independent film about a sex worker, made on a budget of $6 million, has won the Academy award for best picture. It’s interesting to watch Anora during Donald Trump’s second term as US President, at a time when he seems intent on adding a rom-com epilogue to America’s Cold War tale. Anora was …

Did Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ deserve to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Did Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ deserve to win Best Picture at the Oscars?

The Hindu  

By the time the last Oscar statue was handed out yesterday, Sean Baker’s Anora had achieved something extraordinary: an indie darling standing atop Hollywood’s biggest stage, winning five awards including Best Picture. Instead, Anora embodies a peculiar new Oscar trend: the scruffy underdog film that’s been carefully engineered by an aggressive campaign to win big. Unlike the richly drawn figures …

Anora OTT release: When and where to watch the Oscar-winning Best Film
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Anora OTT release: When and where to watch the Oscar-winning Best Film

India Today  

Indian audiences can finally stream the Oscar-winning film 'Anora' on OTT. Winner of Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director, the Oscar-winning movie, is set to release on JioHotstar. On Monday, the official Instagram handle of JioHotstar announced the OTT release of Anora in India. 'Anora' made history by winning the prestigious Academy Award for Best Film.

‘Anora’ Oscar win carries Academy Awards into a new era
Trending News
2 weeks, 5 days ago

‘Anora’ Oscar win carries Academy Awards into a new era

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Last fall, Sean Baker was sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, talking about a poll. Why don’t you want to see sex in our stories?” “I remember being on set and being like: We’re pushing against that poll.” When Baker’s “Anora” swept the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, its five wins, including best picture, heralded a different kind …

Where to watch the Oscar winner Anora at home
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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Where to watch the Oscar winner Anora at home

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sean Baker’s independent film Anora was the big winner at the 2025 Academy …

Oscars 2025: ‘Anora’ wins five awards; ‘The Brutalist’ gets 3
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Oscars 2025: ‘Anora’ wins five awards; ‘The Brutalist’ gets 3

Hindustan Times  

Anora, a film written and directed by Sean Baker won five awards, including Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay at the 97th Academy Awards held on March 3. The film, directed by Frenchman Jacques Audiard, earned Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz a combined best actress award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. The film was nominated for …

Anora OTT release date: When and where to watch Oscar 2025 Best Picture winner online
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Anora OTT release date: When and where to watch Oscar 2025 Best Picture winner online

Live Mint  

Anora OTT release date: Sean Baker's Anora, a comedy-drama about a sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, bagged the Oscar for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards. This notable feat at the 97th Academy Awards has brought the movie to the attention of the masses, who now await its OTT release to witness Baker's award-winning …

Oscars 2025: Anora director Sean Baker makes history with four-trophy haul
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Oscars 2025: Anora director Sean Baker makes history with four-trophy haul

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery PREMIOS OSCAR-DIRECCIÓN Some eagle-eyed Oscars fans may point out that director …

Best Picture Anora to Best Actor Adrien Brody's The Brutalist: Where to watch this year's Oscar winners
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Best Picture Anora to Best Actor Adrien Brody's The Brutalist: Where to watch this year's Oscar winners

Hindustan Times  

The Oscars 2025 marked big wins and many firsts. Anora Mikey Madison holds the Oscar for the Best Actress for "Anora" and producer Alex Coco pose with the Oscar for Best Picture for "Anora". The Brutalist US actor Adrien Brody attends the 97th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 2, 2025. Adrien Brody clinched …

Oscars 2025: Anora was the right Best Picture winner
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Oscars 2025: Anora was the right Best Picture winner

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. For Sean Baker’s Anora, crowned during a ceremony that saw it also take home four …

Sean Baker wins original screenplay Oscar for 'Anora.' 'Conclave' wins adapted screenplay trophy
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Sean Baker wins original screenplay Oscar for 'Anora.' 'Conclave' wins adapted screenplay trophy

Hindustan Times  

LOS ANGELES — Sean Baker won the original screenpla y Oscar for “Anora,” a comedy-drama about a sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, on Sunday at the 97th Academy Awards. 'Conclave' wins adapted screenplay trophy “This is crazy,” a smiling Baker said onstage. I share this with you.” Baker also won the Oscar for editing on …

Best picture winner 'Anora' is an indie film — what does that mean?
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Best picture winner 'Anora' is an indie film — what does that mean?

NPR  

Best picture winner 'Anora' is an indie film — what does that mean? That's how Anora director Sean Baker ended his speech on Sunday night after accepting the award for best picture. The production and distribution company — formed in 2017 — was behind Bong Joon-ho's 2019 film Parasite, which took home the best picture prize in 2020. In addition …

Oscars 2025 key moments: Mikey Madison upsets with Best Actress win and a singing speech for Best Original Song
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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Oscars 2025 key moments: Mikey Madison upsets with Best Actress win and a singing speech for Best Original Song

ABC  

The final major event of award season, the 2025 Oscars, had it all. "I grew up in Los Angeles, but Hollywood always felt so far away from me," Madison said on stage. Baker, who directed, wrote and edited the film took home the Oscars for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Picture. After winning Best Picture, Baker …

Why 'Anora' wins at 2025 Oscars were wins for Hollywood workers
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Why 'Anora' wins at 2025 Oscars were wins for Hollywood workers

LA Times  

When filmmaker Sean Baker won his first Oscar for original screenplay early Sunday night for “Anora,” a screwball dramedy about a stripper who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, he gave an acceptance speech so heartfelt and complete, heaping praise on everyone from his cast and crew to his distributors and management team, that I wondered if he’d thanked …

‘Anora’, leading the Best Picture race, is finally streaming in India
3 weeks ago

‘Anora’, leading the Best Picture race, is finally streaming in India

Live Mint  

Sean Baker’s Anora explodes onto the screen like a firecracker in a midnight alleyway—it’s a restless, breathless ride, a film straddling so many genres and refusing to be tamed. In moments of high tension, the accent sharpens into a harsh, unyielding rasp that not only signals the pressure of the moment but also betrays the intricate double life Anora leads: …

Oscars 2025: Why Anora deserves to win the Academy Award for Best Picture
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Oscars 2025: Why Anora deserves to win the Academy Award for Best Picture

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Bookies are hardly a trustful barometer when it comes to the …

‘Anora’ wins at an emotionally charged Spirit Awards
1 month ago

‘Anora’ wins at an emotionally charged Spirit Awards

LA Times  

“Anora” producer Alex Coco speaks on behalf of the team after the movie took the biggest prize at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Continuing to build momentum as award season nears its conclusion, “Anora” won three prizes at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon, including best feature. This is for all the indie-film lifers who are holding …

‘Anora’ movie review: Sean Baker’s kitsch working-class fantasy is stripped off any nuance
1 month ago

‘Anora’ movie review: Sean Baker’s kitsch working-class fantasy is stripped off any nuance

The Hindu  

Sean Baker has built his career peeling back the tattered sequins of the American Dream, revealing it as either a grand cosmic gag or a long con perpetuated by those with just the right mix of shamelessness and dumb luck. The film is a raucous, whiplash-inducing satire of the American Dream as seen through the eyes of the titular New …

‘Anora’ season once again in full swing
1 month, 1 week ago

‘Anora’ season once again in full swing

LA Times  

Would you pay a trillion dollars for California? ‘Anora’ is the Oscar front-runner, much to Sean Baker’s surprise Upstairs at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, Sean Baker is talking shop with Ivan Rothberg as the veteran projectionist threads the fifth reel of “Anora,” Baker’s Oscar-nominated crowd-pleaser that won top honors from the directors and producers guilds last weekend. Loyal …

Does ‘Anora’ have all the right moves for Oscar voters?
1 month, 1 week ago

Does ‘Anora’ have all the right moves for Oscar voters?

LA Times  

Movies about, or at least prominently featuring, exotic dancers are not uncommon, but it’s rare for them to clean up at the box office and the Academy Awards. If “Anora” star Mikey Madison wins a statuette, she will be the first performer in such a role to do so in four decades: Mary Steenburgen scored the supporting actress trophy for …

Oscars 2025: How ‘Anora’ is leading the Best Picture race by simply outlasting the wreckage
1 month, 1 week ago

Oscars 2025: How ‘Anora’ is leading the Best Picture race by simply outlasting the wreckage

The Hindu  

For months, the Oscars race this year has had every contender suffering from some combination of bad luck, bad strategy, or the increasingly unavoidable reality that the Internet never forgets. Then, in one seismic weekend, Anora pulled off an improbable hat trick, winning Best Picture at the Producers Guild Awards, Best Director at the Directors Guild Awards, and Best Picture …

‘Anora’ takes PGA and DGA top honors. Is the Oscar next?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘Anora’ takes PGA and DGA top honors. Is the Oscar next?

LA Times  

An awards season notable for wild momentum swings saw another big shift Saturday night with Sean Baker’s “Anora” winning top honors from both the directors and producers guilds. It’s a perch that “Anora” had enjoyed after taking the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where had its world premiere in May. But after “Anora” failed to take any prizes …

‘I want to do characters that are better than me’: Yura Borisov on his Oscar nomination for ‘Anora’
2 months ago

‘I want to do characters that are better than me’: Yura Borisov on his Oscar nomination for ‘Anora’

LA Times  

If “Anora” is a cockeyed contemporary reconfiguration of the Cinderella story, then actor Yura Borisov is its Prince Charming. His nomination makes Borisov the first Russian actor nominated for an Academy Award in a performing category since Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1978 for “The Turning Point.” “Anora” won the Palme d’Or when it premiered last year at the Cannes Film Festival. …

Inside the Los Angeles film critics vote that gave ‘Anora’ best picture
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside the Los Angeles film critics vote that gave ‘Anora’ best picture

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. Those included Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-honored “Anora,” which took the award for best picture and saw two of its actors cited: Mikey Madison and Yura Borisov. GLENN WHIPP: Josh, when you asked me to create a file for this story before the weekend, I put a placeholder headline atop it: “Los Angeles Film Critics …

Five films that could win best picture
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Five films that could win best picture

LA Times  

Crisps, crumbles and cobblers are better than pie? Ralph Fiennes in “Conclave.” Sean Baker and Mikey Madison push the ‘Anora’ vibes to the brink Have you ever seen a photo of someone you’ve known for years that makes you change how you see them? I’m looking at an image of filmmaker Sean Baker taken shortly after his open-hearted, screwball adventure …

‘Anora’ as cautionary fairy tale
4 months ago

‘Anora’ as cautionary fairy tale

LA Times  

A New York stripper and the son of an absurdly rich Russian oligarch are living their best lives as they fall for each other in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning film “Anora.” The love-bomb romance between Ani and Ivan is visually effervescent, an inspired frame that invites us in as if we are a plus-one to the party. “I wanted the …

Anora movie ending: What exactly happens in those final minutes?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Anora movie ending: What exactly happens in those final minutes?

Slate  

This article contains spoilers for Anora. And she’s watched that fantasy unravel, as Vanya flees at the first hint of trouble and leaves Ani to deal with his father’s hired thugs, including the sweetly apologetic Igor. The bank doesn’t open until the morning, so Ani and Igor spend a night alone in Vanya’s mansion, the quietest and most sustained interaction …

‘Anora’ season is upon us
5 months ago

‘Anora’ season is upon us

LA Times  

It seems like a lot of La Jolla residents feel like they have a nice little beach town and aim to keep it nice and quiet. ‘Anora’ season, has arrived “Anora” begins much the same way that so many fairy tales have over the years: A downtrodden young woman, disregarded in her daily life but worthy of so much more, …

In "Anora," director Sean Baker paints a dazzling portrait of love, loss and self-discovery
5 months ago

In "Anora," director Sean Baker paints a dazzling portrait of love, loss and self-discovery

Salon  

Though her name means “light and bright,” those two adjectives are hardly how anyone would describe Ani, Mikey Madison’s titular sex worker with a heart of gold in Sean Baker’s magnificent love story “Anora.” Not because those words aren’t fitting descriptors for Ani, but because she’s far more complex than a couple of attributes you can pull from the etymology …

Anora: This year’s Oscars front-runner deserves to be huge.
5 months ago

Anora: This year’s Oscars front-runner deserves to be huge.

Slate  

Anora, the new movie from the sui generis writer-director Sean Baker, seems likely to be the one that catapults him from indie critical darling to that much rarer thing: a filmmaker whose work is both widely praised by festival-going cinephiles and widely watched by audiences who just want to have a good time. Related From Slate This Year’s Great Family …

Sean Baker's improvised road to 'Anora'
5 months, 1 week ago

Sean Baker's improvised road to 'Anora'

The Independent  

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Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor

New Indian Express  

Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. The win Saturday for “Anora” marked a coronation for Baker, the 53-year-old indie filmmaker of “The Florida Project " who used iPhones to make his 2015 film “Tangerine.” …

Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024, fifth consecutive win for Neon
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024, fifth consecutive win for Neon

The Hindu  

Sean Baker’s Anora clinched the prestigious Palme d’Or, outshining fierce competition from Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light and Mohammed Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which secured the Grand Prix and Special Prix awards respectively. The world has to be reminded that watching a film at home while scrolling through your phone and checking emails and messages …

Anora review: This adults-only screwball comedy about a quick-witted stripper is like a 'more believable Pretty Woman'
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Anora review: This adults-only screwball comedy about a quick-witted stripper is like a 'more believable Pretty Woman'

BBC  

Anora review: This adults-only screwball comedy about a quick-witted stripper is like a 'more believable Pretty Woman' Courtesy Cannes Film Festival US director Sean Baker's latest film exploring the world of sex work has been greeted rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival – and after great reviews for his previous work, it could be his breakout commercial hit. Baker's latest …

Cannes entry 'Anora' aims to destigmatize sex work, says director
10 months ago

Cannes entry 'Anora' aims to destigmatize sex work, says director

Hindustan Times  

By Miranda Murray Cannes entry 'Anora' aims to destigmatize sex work, says director CANNES, France, - Part of director Sean Baker's aim in making "Anora," a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch's son, was to remove the stigma surrounding sex work, he said on Wednesday. "It's important to explore …

Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ receives 10 minute standing ovation for sex worker dramedy
10 months ago

Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ receives 10 minute standing ovation for sex worker dramedy

The Hindu  

Sean Baker’s latest film Anora received a rapturous reception at the Cannes Film Festival, earning a 10-minute standing ovation that lit up the event. Long live cinema!” The film stars Mikey Madison as Anora, a 23-year-old stripper from New York City whose fortunes change after meeting Vanya, played by Mark Eydelshteyn. Anora marks another successful Cannes outing for Baker, who …

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