'Anora' director Sean Baker makes Oscars history with four wins for the same movie

Sean Baker made Oscars past connected Sunday by becoming the archetypal idiosyncratic to triumph 4 Oscars successful 1 nighttime for the aforesaid movie. With his movie “Anora,” a bittersweet dramedy astir a Brooklyn stripper who becomes entangled with the wayward lad of a Russian oligarch, Baker won awards for champion picture, director, archetypal screenplay and editing.

“Emilia Pérez” filmmaker Jacques Audiard was besides successful contention for this historical feat, arsenic helium ended up with nominations for directing, adapted screenplay, archetypal opus and champion picture. When the Oscar nominations were announced Jan. 23, the shaper credits for “Emilia Pérez” were among those announced arsenic “nominees to beryllium determined.” Audiard was yet recognized arsenic 1 of the film’s eligible producers, boosting his nominations from 3 to four.

In 1954, Walt Disney won 4 awards successful 1 night, but for 4 antithetic films, including diagnostic documentary “The Living Desert” and 3 shorts. At the 2020 Oscars, Bong Joon Ho was photographed holding 4 Oscars, but technically lone 3 of them were officially his. Bong’s movie “Parasite” won for picture, director, archetypal screenplay and planetary feature, but that past prize goes to the country, not to the filmmaker.

The radical of winners who person taken 3 Oscars for a azygous movie successful 1 nighttime includes James Cameron, Marvin Hamlisch, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Francis Ford Coppola, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Alejando González Iñarritu, James L. Brooks and Billy Wilder.

Warren Beatty is the lone idiosyncratic to person been nominated for directing, producing, penning and acting successful a azygous movie — and helium has done that twice, with “Heaven Can Wait” and “Reds.” Of those galore nominations, helium would triumph lone for directing “Reds.”

Chloé Zhao and Alfonso Cuarón were precocious each besides personally nominated for 4 awards, some winning two. Zhao took location manager and representation for “Nomadland,” losing adapted screenplay and editing, portion Cuarón won manager and cinematography for “Roma,” losing representation and archetypal screenplay.

Baker’s awesome awards tally with “Anora,” which besides included wins from the DGA, PGA, WGA, Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., began with the Palme d’Or erstwhile the movie premiered astatine the Cannes Film Festival past year.