If you’re making a movie on a $6 million budget, you might end up doing more than one job.
Sean Baker did four with his movie “Anora”: He was one of the producers, wrote the screenplay, directed the film, and edited it. And won an Academy Award in all four categories.
Only one person has ever taken home four Oscars in one night: Walt Disney did it in 1954.
“Anora,” a film about a sex worker, received six nominations and won five including Best Picture, with Mikey Madison adding to Sean Baker’s four as she won the Best Actress Oscar. In addition, Baker’s wife, Samantha Quan, was one of the other producers of the film.
Baker, a 54-year-old graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has made a career producing independent films, and once worked as a projectionist for a New Jersey theater. He has made movies about immigrants and sex workers, and occasionally worked behind the camera as a cinematographer. He’s even directed a Taco Bell commercial.
In 2002, he was one of the co-creators of the television comedy “Greg the Bunny,” which starred Seth Green and Eugene Levy.
In his acceptance speech for the screenwriting award, he told the actors, “You elevated everything I wrote.”
