
Film
What Anora's Ending Pays For
Sean Baker's Brooklyn fairytale won five Academy Awards on the strength of two minutes of silence in a parked car. The film is more interested in what that silence costs.
Lena Ashworth·6 May·6 min
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Sean Baker's Brooklyn fairytale won five Academy Awards on the strength of two minutes of silence in a parked car. The film is more interested in what that silence costs.

A year after Sean Baker's fourth feature took five Oscars including Best Picture, the predictable backlash has arrived on schedule. Here's why the Academy, improbably, got it right.
Sean Baker's four-award sweep for Anora at the 97th Academy Awards was the industry headline. His acceptance speech, which explicitly called on audiences to see films in cinemas, was the industrial subtext.