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Oscars 2025: 'Anora' dominates with best picture, director, and actress wins

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"Anora" emerged as the big winner at the 2025 Oscars, taking home Best Picture, Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.

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  1. Fox10 Phoenix

    Oscars 2025: 'Anora' dominates with best picture, director, and actress wins (opens Fox10 Phoenix)

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    "Anora" emerged as the big winner at the 2025 Oscars, taking home Best Picture, Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.

  2. CNN

    Oscars highlights: ‘Anora’ triumphs at the 2025 Academy Awards (opens CNN)

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    “Anora” won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards, closing out a fairy-tale Oscars night for Sean Baker’s raw and irreverent tale of a Brooklyn sex worker. “The Brutalist,” “Wicked,” and “Emilia Pérez” also picked up wins. Follow live updates.

  3. KVIA El Paso

    Best picture honors for "Anora" at the 97th Academy Awards (opens KVIA El Paso)

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    UPDATE: "Anora" takes the top award at Sunday's 97th Academy Awards. The movie took home 5 Oscars. UPDATE: "Anora" earns Mikey Madison the Academy Award for Best actress in a leading role. It is her first nomination and win.

  4. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    Oscars 2025: ‘Anora' cleans up, Adrien Brody and Zoe Saldana make history (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    “Anora” came out on top during the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, taking home five awards including best picture.

  5. New York Times

    Sean Baker Wins Best Director Oscar for ‘Anora’ (opens New York Times)

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    By winning the Oscars for director, original screenplay, film editing and best picture (as a producer), he tied the record for most Oscars won by an individual in one year.

  6. New York Post

    How to watch 2025 Oscar Best Picture winner ‘Anora’: Streaming, cast, more (opens New York Post)

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    "Anora" won Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars in addition to four other awards including Mikey Madison's best actress win. Here's where you can stream Sean Baker's movie.

  7. New York Times

    ‘Anora’ Wins Best Picture During a Dominant Night at the Oscars (opens New York Times)

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    For his movie about an exotic dancer who weds a Russian heir, Sean Baker won awards for best director, original screenplay and editing.

  8. Deadline

    Oscars: Record Nine Wins For Films That Debuted In Cannes As Awards Season Internationalization Continues (opens Deadline)

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    'Anora' is only the fourth Palme winner to also take Best Picture.

  9. Fox32 Chicago

    'Anora' dominates the 97th Academy Awards — Here are the other big winners (opens Fox32 Chicago)

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    The 97th annual Academy Awards lit up Hollywood Sunday night, with Sean Baker making history as 'Anora' claimed the night's top honors.

  10. Forbes

    Oscar Winners: ‘Anora’ Wins Best Picture While Adrien Brody And Mikey Madison Take Home Top Acting Honors (opens Forbes)

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    Anora, which was nominated in six categories, won five prizes on Sunday night.

  11. ABC 7 Chicago

    'Anora' wins Oscar for Best Picture (opens ABC 7 Chicago)

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    "Anora" wins the Best Picture Oscar at the 2025 Academy Awards.

  12. Los Angeles Times

    'Anora' director Sean Baker makes Oscars history with four wins for the same movie (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    With wins for best picture, directing, writing and editing on 'Anora,' Baker has set a new bar for Oscars success.

  13. WFMZ Allentown

    Sean Baker wins best director Oscar for ‘Anora’ in Academy Awards sweep (opens WFMZ Allentown)

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    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. Sunday’s win bookends

  14. ABC 30 Fresno

    'Anora' director Sean Baker made history at the 2025 Oscars -- here's how (opens ABC 30 Fresno)

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    "Anora" director Sean Baker made history at the 2025 Oscars Sunday night by taking home four Academy Awards.

  15. The Guardian

    Anora has swept the Oscars. I can’t help feeling that shouldn’t have happened | Catherine Shoard (opens The Guardian)

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    Sean Baker’s film is muddled, hollow at the middle and about the fifth least vital of the best picture lineup

  16. Honolulu Star-Advertiser

    ‘Anora’ dominates with five awards, including best picture | Honolulu Star-Advertiser (opens Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

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    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 that reflected an academy in transition — younger, edgier and not terribly concerned about ticket sales.

  17. Deadline

    Sean Baker Urges Filmmakers To “Keep Making Movies For The Big Screen” With Theaters Under Threat In Accepting Directing Oscar (opens Deadline)

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    Sean Baker has won the Best Director Oscar for Anora, his second win of the night.

  18. Wyoming Public Media

    'Anora' wins best picture at the 2025 Oscars (opens Wyoming Public Media)

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    Anora's Sean Baker also took home Oscars for best directing, editing and original screenplay. Star Mikey Madison won best lead actress.

  19. NPR

    Sean Baker wins Oscars for writing, editing and directing 'Anora' (opens NPR)

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    Baker has said it was a feat just to get his low-budget film funded.

  20. The Oregonian

    ‘Anora’ wins best picture at 97th Academy Awards (opens The Oregonian)

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    “Anora” was crowned best picture at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Sean Baker’s gritty, Brooklyn-set screwball farce Hollywood’s top prize.

  21. Slate Magazine

    The Part of Anora’s Oscars Triumph That’s Truly Revolutionary (opens Slate Magazine)

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    There’s one way in which this movie is like no Best Picture winner before.

  22. ABC 11 Raleigh

    Oscars 2025: 'Anora' wins Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards (opens ABC 11 Raleigh)

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    "Anora" has won the award for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards.

  23. Deadline

    Sean Baker Urges “We Need More” Independent Filmmaking While Accepting Best Picture Oscar For ‘Anora’ (opens Deadline)

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    Anora took home the Oscar for Best Picture at the 97th annual Academy Awards

  24. Rolling Stone

    'Long Live Independent Film': Best Picture Frontrunner 'Anora' Nabs Oscars Top Prize (opens Rolling Stone)

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    'Anora' won Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday.

  25. Salt Lake Tribune

    ‘Anora’ dominates, winning five Oscars including best picture (opens Salt Lake Tribune)

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    A look at who won Oscars from best picture to top actors and more.

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