Anora's big night at the Oscars puts an end to the most chaotic awards season in years
- Sean Baker's Anora won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, totaling a gross of $18.45 million after 21 weeks in theaters.
- Anora's weekend box office earnings reached an estimated $1.86 million, contributing to its total gross.
- The Oscars ceremony showcased a change in preferences, as younger, international voters now value artistic purity over crowd-pleasing films.
- Conan O'Brien's hosting improved the telecast's presentation, making it a brisk and elegantly executed media event, according to critics.
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Oscars 2025: Anora’s Cinderella triumph
“We may all need to update our mental model of what a Best Picture winner looks like,” said Nate Jones in NYMag.com. When Anora added the top prize to its already impressive haul at the close of this year’s Oscars ceremony, it made Oppenheimer, last year’s winner, look like a big-budget outlier in an otherwise growing run of scrappy art house hits—Moonlight, Parasite, etc.—that have emerged as Academy favorites.Sean Baker’s low-budget tragicomed…
‘Anora’ Gets Nice Bump In Post-Oscar Expansion, Hits No. 7 After 21 Weeks – Specialty Box Office
Sean Baker’s Anora from Neon — which swept the Academy Awards for Best Director, Picture, Original Screenplay, Lead Actress and Editing – added 800+ screens to celebrate after the ceremony last Sunday and brought in in an estimated $1.86 million for the three-day weekend. The cume after 21 weeks in theaters now stands at $18.45 […]
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