‘Anora’s Sean Baker Thanks Sex Worker Community After Winning First Oscar In Best Screenplay
deadline.comAnora has won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, with writer-director Sean Baker taking home the statuette. The win is Baker’s first at the Academy Awards, where he’s personally scored his first set of four nominations this year, from the film’s set of six.
In his acceptance speech, Baker said, “I want to thank the sex worker community. They have shared their stories. They have shared their life experience with me over the years.
My deepest respect. Thank you — I share this with you.” Baker also thanked Neon, FilmNation, Focus Features/Universal Pictures, Le Pacte, his “incredible cast,” who “elevated everything I wrote and made me look very good,” and finally, his fellow producers on the project, Samantha Quan and Alex Coco.
For Baker, Anora is just the latest film to spotlight the sex worker community. An interest in authentically examining the lives of underrepresented individuals has been at the core of his filmmography, from his 2012 breakthrough feature, Starlet, to the iPhone-lensed Tangerine, through to more recent works like Red Rocket.
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