Oscars 2025 Takeaways: ‘Anora’ Dominates Top Awards
The genre-hopping “Anora,” a nonchalant take on sex work filled with shouted profanities, won best picture and four other Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards. It was a nontraditional choice…
Sean Baker Wins Best Director Oscar for ‘Anora’
Whoever won the prize for best director on Sunday night was going to receive a first directing Oscar, but no nominee has labored as a filmmaker more single-mindedly for a…
Mikey Madison Wins Best Lead Actress Oscar for ‘Anora’
Mikey Madison, who played a feisty and tenacious sex worker in the movie “Anora,” won the Oscar for best lead actress. It was Madison’s first Oscar nomination. The win was…
‘Anora’ Wins Best Picture During a Dominant Night at the Oscars
“Anora,” a comedy-drama about an exotic dancer who weds a flighty Russian, won best picture at the Oscars on Sunday night, capping a dominant performance for a movie that was…
Best Picture Oscar Nominees: Behind the Scenes of ‘Anora,’ ‘Conclave’ and More
“Hello. I’m Denis Villeneuve. I’m the director of ‘Dune, Part Two’.” “So this scene happens exactly after the introduction of Feyd-Rautha, where we saw him as a psychopath. And here,…
How Yura Borisov of ‘Anora’ Went From the Kremlin to the Oscars
On the face of it, the Russian actor Yura Borisov was an unlikely actor to land an Oscar nomination in 2025. Just a few years ago he played a guileless…
BAFTA Awards Winners: ‘Conclave,’ ‘Anora’ and ‘The Brutalist’ Take Home Top Prizes
“Conclave” won the best movie title at the EE British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday — adding the latest twist to a chaotic…
‘Anora’ Wins Big at Producers and Directors Guild Awards
This tumultuous Oscar season has a certified front-runner. On Saturday night in Los Angeles, more than a month after “Anora” lost every award it was nominated for at the Golden…