If his previous work implies a stacked deck, it stays vague about who stacked it. Anora just tells us: It was the ultrarich.

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Throughout his career, Sean Baker has focused his lens on characters often left out of the mainstream, providing intimate looks at the lives of those marginalized or considered outsiders. Sex workers are some of his main subjects,

Sean Baker's “Anora” is by wide consensus one of the year’s best films and a best picture contender at the Oscars.

Sean Baker is scrappy. For years, the writer-director has been making independent films about marginalized groups, from undocumented immigrants to sex workers. He casts his own movies, working with friends and talent he finds on social media.

NPR's Eric Westervelt talks to Sean Baker. The director of "The Florida Project" has a new movie about an exotic dancer's unlikely relationship with the son of a Russian oligarch. It's called "Anora."

I talked with Sean after Anora’s debut at the New York Film Festival to discuss how he finds his stories, the power of women in his filmography, and how to make a medium-budget film look like a big-budget film.

Sean Baker's highly anticipated Anora continues the director's exploration of a community that is too often trapped in a heightened '70s setting like Boogie Nights or a campy, deliberately explicit movie like Showgirls.

That ends this weekend, when Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora opens in New York and Los Angeles. To commemorate the occasion, here are 10 questions — one for each of GoldDerby’s top 10 Best Picture contenders — that remain unanswered in this “phony war” period of the 2025 Oscar season.