Sean Baker Dedicates HisAnoraBest Original Screenplay Win to Sex Workers at Oscars 2025

Mar. 15, 2025

Sean Baker at the Academy Awards on March 2.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty

Kevin Winter/Getty

Anorascreenwriter Sean Baker has secured Oscar gold!

“This is crazy. Thank you to the Academy, thank you so much for this honor,” the filmmaker began his humble acceptance speech.

Baker shouted out his “incredible, incredible cast,” adding, “You elevated everything I wrote and made me look very good.”

He also thanked the sex worker community who helped informAnora. “They have shared their stories, they have shared their life experience with me over the years,” said Baker. “My deepest respect. Thank you. I share this with you.”

Anora.NEON

NEON

The films also nominated in the Academy’s Best Original Screenplay category this year wereA Real Pain,September 5, The BrutalistandThe Substance.

A Real Pain.Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

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September 5.Jürgen Olczyk/Paramount Pictures

Jürgen Olczyk/Paramount Pictures

Screenwriters Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David’sSeptember 5depicts the Israeli hostage crisis at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany from the perspective of American sports journalists. Peter Sarsgaard, 53, stars in the movie as former ABC News executive Roone Arledge, who oversaw the network’s Olympics coverage in Berlin.

The Substance.MUBI/YouTube

MUBI/YouTube

The Brutalist.A24

A24

Adrien Brody, 51, leadsThe Brutalistas László Tóth, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who emigrates to the U.S. to flee the Holocaust. Brady Corbet (Vox Lux) directed the drama, which is a top Oscar contender with 10 nominations, and co-wrote it with his wife and partner Mona Fastvold.

source: people.com