Baker tonight already won Best Editing and Best Screenplay. Winning Best Director from presenter Quentin Tarantino, Baker set down his Oscar and said, “We are all here tonight and watching this broadcast because we love movies.

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.

Sean Baker's film Anora won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year and is an Oscars favourite in 2025. Tom Brook speaks to location manager Ross Brodar about the film's iconic Coney Island locations.

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.

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.

Brighton Beach is the latest star of the silver screen.

Sean Baker broke Oscar records as the first person to personally win four Academy Awards for a single film - for directing, editing, writing and producing Anora. Rising star Mikey Madison who played Anora- nicknamed 'Ani'- also came away with the Oscar for Best Actress.

New Jersey indie film auteur Sean Baker is now an Oscar-winning director. Baker has centered most of his films around sex workers. The movies have been well received, but none have reached the heights of “ Anora ,” his first movie to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars.

If you didn't know who New Jersey-born Sean Baker was before Sunday ... the Russian-American community in Brighton Beach and Coney Island, in New York City's borough of Brooklyn.