In February on the same night, Sean Baker took home two of the top guild trophies, from the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America, for Anora. The rare double victory was seen as significantly boosting his film’s chances of winning the coveted best picture Oscar — which it eventually did — after it also captured the top prize from the Writers Guild of America for which it was eligible, best original screenplay.
Anora‘s sweep of the guilds and the top Oscar signified strong industry consensus about the indie darling.
Clean sweeps like this don’t happen often: In the past 15 years (since the Academy expanded its best picture category from five to as many as 10 nominees, just like the PGA Awards, which also has a similar preferential ballot voting style), it has occurred only four times— in 2010 with Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, in 2013 with Ben Affleck’s Argo,…
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