‘Anora’s’ Sean Baker makes history as the first person to win 4 Oscars for a single film
Move over, Walt Disney. Anora filmmaker Sean Baker made Oscar history on Sunday night, becoming the first person to win four Oscars in one night for the same project.
Baker won Best Picture (as a producer), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing for the Neon film. He was favored to win all of them except editing, where Anora was second in the odds to Conclave, the BAFTA winner. Due to the L.A. wildfires in January, the ACE Eddie Awards were moved to March 14, so the only major editing precursors were the BAFTAs and the Critics Choice Awards, which crowned the Oscar-snubbed Challengers. Last month, Anora won the top guild prizes at the Producers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, and Writers Guild of America Awards.
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Baker joins Disney as the only other person to win a record four Oscars in one night. However, Disney won his quartet for four different projects. In 1954, he took home Best Documentary for The Living Desert, Best Documentary Short Subject for The Alaskan Eskimo, Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) for Bear Country, and Best Short Subject (Cartoon) for Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom.
A common misconception is that Bong Joon Ho won four Oscars for Parasite five years ago. He only personally won three — Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay — as the film's fourth trophy for Best International Feature Film went to South Korea.
Anora converted five of its six Oscar nominations into wins. Its fifth victory was for Mikey Madison in Best Actress. Yura Borisov lost Best Supporting Actor to Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain).
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