Anora
Sean Baker ’s cutting funniness - dramaAnoranow looks to be in with a with child chance of take home the biggest booty of the night at the 2025 Academy Awards . The small indie movie made with a relatively tiny $ 6 million budget will be causing a massive upset if it beats bigger films likeThe Brutalist , ConclaveandEmilia Pérezto the Best Picture Oscar this year . Yet , Anora is now odds - on favorite to win . If it does so , it ’ll reach a historic double that only other flick in the past 69 years has cope .
Anora , which is abouta 23 - twelvemonth - honest-to-goodness Russian - American stripper who marries one of her clients , was also the big victor at last year ’s Cannes Film Festival , becoming the lowest - budget American film in more than 20 years to succeed the Palme D’Or . The motion-picture show would achieve something even more spectacular if it adds the Best Picture figurine to the independent plunder at Cannes . Since the conclusion of Hollywood ’s Golden Age , only Bong Joon - ho ’s masterpieceParasitehas managed to pull ahead both the Palme D’Or and the Academy Award for Best Picture .
Anora Would Be The 4th Film To Win Both Cannes’ Palme D’Or And Best Picture At The Oscars
And Only The 2nd Film Since 1956 To Achieve This Double
If it does win out at the Oscars , Anorawould be the quaternary movie overall to win bothof world cinema ’s most coveted awards . BeforeParasite , we have to go all the way back to 1956 for the previous flick to achieve this extraordinary exploit . That movie wasMarty , a societal play star Ernest Borgnine , which likeAnorais set in a migrant residential area in New York . Martyis an understated film that seems to have been forget by time , but is well worth revisit in light of the record it could be about to share with2025 ’s Best Picture winner .
" Anoraevolves from an unlikely romanticist drama to a full - on chaotic seeking that is sure to keep you laugh from the gut . “- Patrice Witherspoon -ScreenRant ’s review ofAnora
The first moving-picture show to win both the Oscar for Best Picture and the Palme d’Or was 1945’sThe Lost Weekend , a noir classic that’sone of Billy Wilder ’s best movies , and only the fourth he made in Hollywood . The enormous gap between these two early double success andParasiteis will to how far apart the vote trends have beenbetween the American - dominated Oscar polls and the European - dominated Cannesjuries . A two-fold profits forAnorathis March could indicate that things are beginning to exchange .
Parasite And Anora Could Signal The Start Of A New Oscars Trend
They Could Be A Sign That Oscars Voters Are Starting To See Eye-To-Eye With Cannes Judges
With a significantdiversification of Oscar nominationsand the Academy ’s voting pool between 2016 and last year , it ’s clear that Academy Awards ceremonies are no longer the hegemonic Hollywood - only affairs they used to be . IfAnoradoes indeed become the 4th film to win both the Palme d’Or and Best Picture , it could bespeak the start of a fresh tendency , in which the big plunder atCannes becomes a factor in the big prize at the Oscars . In that scenario , ParasiteandAnorawill have both achieve in the distance of five years what no film before them accomplish in almost 70 years .
After being discounted from the Oscars race for a while , Anora has astonishingly emerged as the frontrunner to win Best Picture — but why ?
It ’s clear that industry trend in Hollywood and in continental Europe are moving closer together , as the film industry becomes more unified on a global scale . What ’s more , with the clout of big streaming platforms able-bodied to transcend interior boundary in ways that the motion-picture show and television set industries were previously incompetent of doing , interview appreciation are becoming more international than ever before . Cannes and the Oscars seem to be acknowledging these changes , and recognize each other in the cognitive process . Anoracould be the current award time of year ’s ultimate beneficiary as a result .
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