Anora
‘This is not comedy! Pay attention’: from Cabaret to Trump rallies, why does audience laughter feel so sinister?
Americans are struggling to reconcile Trump’s campness and cruelty – but comedy has always been a tool for authoritarians
Sam Wolfson
20, Mar, 2025 @11:02 AM
Anora is nothing new – Hollywood has always been obsessed with sex workers
Mikey Madison is the latest in a line of actors dating back to Janet Gaynor to win Oscars depicting the sex trade. Why this is, and whether it lessens the stigma of such work, is an open question
Anne Billson
07, Mar, 2025 @3:57 PM
T-shirts, thongs and perfect twerking: Anora spent $18m on marketing – three times its budget
Indie distributor Neon has revealed how it pulled off its second best-picture win in five years, following Parasite in 2020
Catherine Shoard
06, Mar, 2025 @2:27 PM
‘We didn’t see who she is’: Anora missed chance to spark real change, say sex workers
Sean Baker’s film accused of lacking representation, as some say he and Mikey Madison could have used speeches to call for policy reform
Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent
05, Mar, 2025 @4:47 PM
‘I want to see that movie’: Brighton Beach residents on Anora’s Oscar triumph
Mikey Madison called out the Brooklyn seaside setting on Oscar night. How did locals feel the morning after?
Alaina Demopoulos
04, Mar, 2025 @5:00 PM
From Parasite to Anora: how Cannes became an Oscars power player
The increasingly international Academy has warmed to more and more Cannes film festival premieres, leaving all eyes on this year’s edition
Benjamin Lee
03, Mar, 2025 @8:00 PM
The main Oscars takeaway? Hollywood is as scared of the world right now as you and I are | Emma Brockes
Perhaps the Ozempic was making people light-headed, or the stars felt they should stay silent. Either way, there was a notable lack of politics, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
Emma Brockes
03, Mar, 2025 @4:48 PM
Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats
After the horror of the LA wildfires and with the world in uproar, some had called for the show not to go on. But up in the mezzanine with the shouty hoi polloi, I saw that hope really does spring eternal here
Xan Brooks
03, Mar, 2025 @4:08 PM
Russian state propagandists overjoyed at Anora’s Oscar triumph
The film’s five Academy Awards seen as act of normalisation by commentators in country still persecuting critics of its war on Ukraine
Pjotr Sauer
03, Mar, 2025 @3:02 PM
Oscars 2025 highlights: Anora sweeps awards with best picture, best director and best actress – as it happened
At the 97th Academy Awards, Sean Baker made history, while Adrien Brody, Mikey Madison, Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin took acting prizes
Stuart Heritage, Gwilym Mumford, Chloe Mac Donnell and Morwenna Ferrier
03, Mar, 2025 @7:11 AM
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
Catherine Shoard
03, Mar, 2025 @6:36 AM
The Oscars were an exhilarating triumph for Anora and newly minted star Mikey Madison
Political metaphors were the dark undercurrent in this year’s crop, from Anora’s toxic masculinity to the revolutionary defiance of I’m Still Here
Peter Bradshaw
03, Mar, 2025 @6:32 AM
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