Sean Baker made Oscars historical past on Sunday by changing into the primary individual to win 4 Oscars in a single night time for a similar film. Along with his film “Anora,” a bittersweet dramedy a couple of Brooklyn stripper who turns into entangled with the wayward son of a Russian oligarch, Baker received awards for finest image, director, authentic screenplay and modifying.
“Emilia Pérez” filmmaker Jacques Audiard was additionally in competition for this historic feat, as he ended up with nominations for guiding, tailored screenplay, authentic music and finest image. When the Oscar nominations have been introduced Jan. 23, the producer credit for “Emilia Pérez” have been amongst these introduced as “nominees to be determined.” Audiard was in the end acknowledged as one of many movie’s eligible producers, boosting his nominations from three to 4.
In 1954, Walt Disney received 4 awards in a single night time, however for 4 completely different movies, together with function documentary “The Living Desert” and three shorts. On the 2020 Oscars, Bong Joon Ho was photographed holding 4 Oscars, however technically solely three of them have been formally his. Bong’s movie “Parasite” received for image, director, authentic screenplay and worldwide function, however that final prize goes to the nation, to not the filmmaker.
The group of winners who’ve taken three Oscars for a single movie in a single night time consists of James Cameron, Marvin Hamlisch, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Francis Ford Coppola, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Alejando González Iñarritu, James L. Brooks and Billy Wilder.
Warren Beatty is the one individual to have been nominated for guiding, producing, writing and performing in a single movie — and he has performed that twice, with “Heaven Can Wait” and “Reds.” Of these many nominations, he would win just for directing “Reds.”
Chloé Zhao and Alfonso Cuarón have been lately every additionally personally nominated for 4 awards, each profitable two. Zhao took house director and movie for “Nomadland,” shedding tailored screenplay and modifying, whereas Cuarón received director and cinematography for “Roma,” shedding image and authentic screenplay.
Baker’s spectacular awards run with “Anora,” which additionally included wins from the DGA, PGA, WGA, Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Movie Critics Assn., started with the Palme d’Or when the movie premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition final yr.