# The dazzling underdog with amazing legs: how Anora swept the Oscars

Sean Baker’s film took five Academy Awards on Sunday evening. Here’s how it triggered the landslide  
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## Anora

A  is officially film of the year, crowned supreme at the Oscars, just as it was at Cannes when it was anointed with the  last May. That’s a long path to glory, and a fairly untrodden one.  made it five years ago; the previous film to do so was Marty in 1955. (In fact, Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend achieved a similar feat 10 years before that, but then the top prize at Cannes was the Grand Prix, and it was shared.)



## Karren Karagulian, Alex Coco, Mikey Madison, Sean Baker, Samantha Quan and Vache Tovmasyan pose with the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images

- A  is officially film of the year, crowned supreme at the Oscars, just as it was at Cannes when it was anointed with the Palme d’Or last May. That’s a long path to glory, and a fairly untrodden one.  made it five years ago; the previous film to do so was Marty in 1955. (In fact, Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend achieved a similar feat 10 years before that, but then the top prize at Cannes was the Grand Prix, and it was shared.)
-  takes home best picture Oscar
-  and  win best acting prizes
-  and  win supporting awards
- Anora’s Sean Baker wins for , editing and 



## Mikey Madison, Sean Baker, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Luna Sofia Miranda and Lindsey Normington, along with the cast and crew, at Anora’s New York premiere last October. Photograph: Thenews2/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock



## Bong Joon-ho with two of Parasite’s four Oscars. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Still, also like Parasite, there was a dollop of good fortune atop the careful planning: Anora didn’t assume frontrunner status until it was too late for a genuine backlash to build. In Anora’s case, the film managed to stay largely clean – bar a fleeting hoo-ha around the lack of intimacy coordinators on set – while other films had to reckon with controversies around AI (The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez) and stars’ disastrous past tweets (again, Emilia Pérez).



## Anora's Sean Baker wins for , editing and 



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