Anora has swept the Oscars. I can’t help feeling that shouldn’t have happened | Catherine Shoard
Sean Baker’s film is muddled, hollow at the middle and about the fifth least vital of the best picture lineup
- How Anora swept the Oscars – and the complete list of winners
- The red carpet and Oscars ceremony – in pictures
It is hard to imagine a more charming Oscar winner than Sean Baker. The director – and writer, editor and producer – of Anora was wonderfully persuasive and gracious and fluent at the Academy Awards. He was funny picking up best editing, and then he was sweet accepting the screenwriter prize.
When it came to the directing gong, he was downright godlike: the podium his soapbox, superbly leveraged for a gang-busting call to arms about the importance of cinema and the need for people to support bricks and mortar venues.
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