Sean Baker was born on Feb. 26 ... in New York City's borough of Brooklyn. 'Anora' won five awards at Sunday's 97th Academy Awards, with four to Baker: best director, best original screenplay ...

The Oscar-winning film “Anora” may be fictitious — but the over-the-top mansion prominently featured in it certainly exists in real life. Priced at a staggering $30 million when it first hit the market more than a decade ago,

Baker conceived of the film as being rooted in a home invasion scene. Madison gets her screams in — and some punches — when Garnik and Igor come calling. The goal is to round up Ani and Vanya so they can get the marriage annulled, but Vanya legs it out the front door, leaving his new bride to deal with the fallout.

The 14,000-square-foot waterfront estate in Mill Basin is the Brooklyn mega-mansion that glistened in Anora. It features a private theater, marble floors, and a large pool that was once owned by Russian billionaires.

Sean Baker has won best director at the Oscars for “Anora,” the story of a Brooklyn exotic dancer who marries the impetuous son of a Russian oligarch.

Brooklyn took center stage at the 2025 Academy Awards on Sunday night as “Anora,” which was based and filmed in southern Brooklyn, won five Oscars — including

Sean Baker’s Oscar triumph with Anora is proof that indie filmmakers ... and a Lomo 40-120 zoom lens — except on one day they used two. They shot mostly in Brooklyn in 2023. The unpredictable nature of filming on the streets of Brooklyn (and Las ...

Sean Baker’s latest film Anora claimed a good chunk of the awards at the 97th annual Oscars. Baker himself won for editing and directing, and star Mikey Madison who plays the titular character, won best actress for her performance in the film.

Sean Baker won Academy Awards on Sunday night for writing, editing and directing his film Anora, a Cinderella story set in Brooklyn's Russian emigre communities of Brighton Beach and Coney Island. By the end of the night, the film's star Mikey Madison had collected a best lead actress award and Anora took home best picture.

Sean Baker, the director of “Anora,” has been named Best Director ... The film — a romantic comedy drama about a sex worker from Brooklyn and the son of a Russian oligarch — is Baker’s eighth feature. This is his first film since 2021’s ...

New Jersey's Sean Baker made Oscar history for 'Anora' on Sunday. Here's how the film cleaned up, and if the North Jersey director's other films.