Anora swept 2025's awards season.American filmmaker Sean Baker recently became the first person ever to be awarded four Oscars for one film. During his acceptance speech, Baker thanked Quentin Tarantino, explaining that if he hadn’t cast Mickey Maddison in ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’ in 2019 ‘There would be no ‘Anora’... If there was ever a perfect metaphor for what mainstream media keeps getting wrong about sex work, it would be two middle-aged rich men patting each other on the backs for creating a film about an industry neither of them have any experience in. And then being wildly celebrated for it. There would be no Anora without sex workers.Baker gushed about his ‘deep respect for the sex worker community’, and his gratitude to them for ‘sharing their stories’ with him… There have been whisperings
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