Backstage at the Academy Awards, the filmmaker praised the Academy for celebrating independent film even as they compete with movies with budgets "literally almost 100 times" of their film.
Baker wrote and directed the story of a Brooklyn sex worker, which was nominated for six Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards.
Twenty-two years after winning best actor for ''The Pianist,'' Adrien Brody won the same Oscar again for his performance as another Holocaust survivor in Brady Corbet's ''The Brutalist," at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday.
New Jersey's Sean Baker made Oscar history for 'Anora' Sunday. Here's how the film cleaned up and more about Baker's film and Academy Awards history.
Sean Baker has made Oscars history with "Anora" as the first person to win four Oscars in the same night for the same movie.
Sean Baker wins Best Original Screenplay at the 2025 Oscars for Anora, thanking the sex worker community in his emotional acceptance speech.