# Sean Baker



## 5 March 2025

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  ### ‘We didn’t see who she is’: Anora missed chance to spark real change, say sex workers

  Sean Baker’s film accused of lacking representation, as some say he and Mikey Madison could have used speeches to call for policy reform

  Mar 5 2025 11.47 EST

## 4 March 2025

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  ### ‘I want to see that movie’: Brighton Beach residents on Anora’s Oscar triumph

  Mikey Madison called out the Brooklyn seaside setting on Oscar night. How did locals feel the morning after?

  Mar 4 2025 12.00 EST

## 3 March 2025

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  ### From Parasite to Anora: how Cannes became an Oscars power player

  The increasingly international Academy has warmed to more and more Cannes film festival premieres, leaving all eyes on this year’s edition

  Mar 3 2025 15.00 EST

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  ### Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats

  After the horror of the LA wildfires and with the world in uproar, some had called for the show not to go on. But up in the mezzanine with the shouty hoi polloi, I saw that hope really does spring eternal here

  Mar 3 2025 11.08 EST

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  ### Sean Baker matches 70-year-old Oscars record held by Walt Disney

  Mar 2 2025 23.27 EST

## 2 March 2025

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  ### Why Anora should win the best picture Oscar

  Catherine Shord

  Mar 2 2025 22.55 EST

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  Anora (2024) film still

  Feb 25 2025 29.26 EST

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  ### Anora dominates the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress and Adrien Brody wins for The Brutalist

  Peter Bradshaw

  Feb 25 2025 22.55 EST

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  ### Sean Baker wins best director Oscar for Anora

  Mar 2 2025 22.29 EST

## February 2025

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  Feb 25 2025 29.26 EST

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  Anora (2024) film still

  Feb 24 2025 22.55 EST

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  Feb 11 2025 11.32 EST

## January 2025

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  The American indie director who made his mark with Tangerine and The Florida Project, and whose latest film, Anora, is an Oscars favourite, owes an unlikely debt to British social realists Mike Leigh and Ken Loach

  Jan 4 2025 03.00 EST

## December 2024

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  Anora, Better Man and Sonic 3: the biggest Boxing Day films out in Australia

  Dec 25 2024 18.43 EST

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  Wendy Ide’s 10 best of 2024

  Dec 22 2024 02.00 EST

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  Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 4 – Anora

  Dec 17 2024 07.00 EST

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  Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 5 – Anora

  Dec 16 2024 03.00 EST

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