Tag: Anora

• Sean Baker Makes Academy Awards History with Four Oscars in One Night

  

  Sean Baker set an Academy Awards record on Sunday, March 2, 2025, winning four personal Oscars as the writer, director, editor, and part of the producing team of his $6 million comedy-drama Anora. (Only Walt Disney had previously won four Oscars in a night, but for different films.) Throughout awards season Baker had been a…

  gkevinlally

  March 4, 2025

  Baker, Sean, Filmmakers

  Anora, Sean Baker

• ‘Green Border,’ ‘No Other Land’ and ‘Anora’ Are Among 2024’s Best

  

  Thanks to my relatively new perch on the editorial board at Cineaste, I’m getting to see more films a year than ever. (Editing a monthly magazine and website for several decades limited my free time to luxuriate in the three weeks of New York Film Festival press screenings, although I tried to make up for that…

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  December 29, 2024

  Film Appreciation

  A Different Man, A Real Pain, Anora, film, Furiosa, Green Border, I’m Still Here, Io Capitano, jesse-eisenberg, kieran-culkin, Megalopolis, movies, No Other Land, Robot Dreams, Ten Best

• New York Film Festival Welcomes Comedies of All Kinds

  

  The annual New York Film Festival has no shortage of exotic, esoteric, and demanding films. But some of the biggest highlights of this year’s event are comedies. Yes, comedies. Raucous comedies. Quirky comedies. Comedy-thrillers. Comedies that double as poignant character studies. But comedies nonetheless. Among the most popular and crowd-pleasing entries at NYFF 62 is…

  gkevinlally

  October 1, 2024

  Film Appreciation

  A Real Pain, Anora, Film at Lincoln Center, Misericordia, New York Film Festival, Universal Language