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Sean Baker’s latest film Anora claimed a good chunk of the awards at the 97th annual Oscars. Baker himself won for editing and directing, and star Mikey Madison who plays the titular character, won best actress for her performance in the film.

The independent feature film premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and it gained awards momentum as the season went on.

For all the details on how to watch Anora, read on.

Is Anora streaming? Where to watch:

Anora will arrive on Hulu March 17. The film is also available to rent on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Microsoft TV, Plex, Spectrum TV and more.

What is Anora about?

In Sean Baker’s original film, Anora, who is employed as a sex worker at HQ in Brooklyn, gets caught up in a whirlwind romance with a young Russian man named Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn) who impusively proposes marriage to...

The 2025 Oscars, Hollywood’s biggest night, didn’t hold back on delivering plenty of emotional, laughable and awkward moments. From Anora owning the night with five wins to Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s show-stopping performance to host Conan O’Brien mocking the Emilia Pérez scandal, here are some of Sunday night’s most unforgettable moments.

Anora Owns the Night With Five Wins Darya Ekamasova, Lindsey Normington, Vache Tovmasyan, Karren Karagulian, Alex Coco, Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Samantha Quan, Luna Sofía Miranda, Sean Baker, Drew Daniels and Yura Borisov during Anora‘s best picture win.

Anora steamrolled through the night, with Sean Baker‘s indie upstart winning five Oscars, including best picture and director, and star Mikey Madison staging an upset for best actress. “It’s a dream come true. I’m probably going to wake up tomorrow,” Madison said when accepting the prize. Many of the people involved with the...

Here’s Where You Can Watch The Oscars 2025 Best Picture & Best International Film Nominees (Photo Credit – Instagram)

As the 97th Academy Awards approach on March 3, 2025, movie lovers can stream the Best Picture nominees from home. This year’s diverse list includes sci-fi epics, modern fables, religious thrillers, and inventive dramas, all of which earned rave reviews in 2024.

While half of the nominees are already available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Max, and Hulu, the others will be arriving soon. In the meantime, they can be rented or purchased through VOD services. Here’s how to watch each of the Best Picture nominees for the Oscars.

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Storyline: The musical drama with 10 Oscar nominations tells the story of two young witches,...

The Criterion Collection has announced their April slate of discs, with one soon-to-be Oscar nominee, Anora, among the titles. Unveiled as spine #1259, Anora could see a little push from voters, especially as voting has been pushed back to January 17th due to the ongoing fires in Los Angeles. While Anora won’t actually see the streets until April 29th, the announcement alone could give it even more prestige for voters.

Anora wouldn’t be the first time that Criterion announced titles that neatly coincided with the Academy Awards. Two of the biggest stand-outs of recent years were The Grand Budapest Hotel and Parasite, with Wes Anderson’s film being revealed in January when Academy Award nominations are traditionally announced and Bong Joon-ho’s picture being promoted just a few days before final voting closed.

Of course, there’s no real scientific proof that Criterion is trying to give Anora a...

“Anora”, the 2024 R-rated feature, written and directed by Sean Baker, stars Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk and Luna Sofía Miranda, available April 29, 2025 on 4K Uhd + Blu-ray special edition as part of the ‘Criterion’ collection:

“…’Anora’ working in a Brooklyn strip club, gets her chance at a ‘Cinderella’ story when she meets and marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

“But once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled…”

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Warning: Spoilers for Anora

Sean Baker’s Anora is a serious Oscars contender after being nominated for an impressive five Golden Globes. Written and directed by the filmmaker behind Red Rocket and The Florida Project, Anora tells the story of a young woman from Brooklyn who becomes caught up in a whirlwind romance with the son of an oligarch. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora and Mark Eydelshteyn as her flame Ivan, and has a cast that also includes Yura Borisov, Lindsey Normington, Karren Karagulian, and Emily Weider.

Given Anora’s verité feel and lack of a musical score, audiences may find it easy to overlook the hard work the movie’s sound team put into bringing its world to life (which is arguably the point). Still, sound team members John Warrin and Andy Hay worked hard to augment audio recorded on set with carefully designed and placed sounds that...

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If you are a big fan of the romantic comedy-drama genre, then you are lucky. As one of this year’s most highly anticipated films, Anora is finally here. Written and directed by The Florida Project and Red Rocket‘s Sean Baker, the 2024 film stars the immensely talented and incredibly gorgeous Mikey Madison in the lead role of Anora.

Anora follows a young sex worker in New York who meets and falls for the young son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. In traditional Cinderella fashion, the young couple decides to get married. Still, once the news reaches Russia, Anora’s fairytale becomes a nightmare as her prince’s parents are heading to New York.

Anora – Streaming & VOD Release Date (Where & When to Watch It?) Credit – Neon

The critically acclaimed romantic comedy-drama film was finally released in theaters on...

“Anora”, the 2024 R-rated feature, written and directed by Sean Baker, stars Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk and Luna Sofía Miranda, streaming December 17, 2024 on digital platforms:

“…’Anora’ working in a Brooklyn strip club, gets her chance at a ‘Cinderella’ story when she meets and marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

“But once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

“Anora” is a new R-rated feature, written and directed by Sean Baker, winner of the top award at the recent 77th ‘Cannes Film Festival’, starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk, and Luna Sofía Miranda, now playing in theaters:

“…’Anora’ working in a Brooklyn strip club, gets her chance at a ‘Cinderella’ story when she meets and marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

“But once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Stars: Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Darya Ekamasova, Yura Borisov, Paul Weissman, Lindsey Normington, Emily Weider, Luna Sofía Miranda, Vincent Radwinsky, Brittney Rodriguez, Sophia Carnabuci | Written and Directed by Sean Baker

Since releasing his first feature in 2000, writer/director Sean Baker has built himself a name as an exciting voice in independent cinema. As his works have gotten more attention, from Tangerine being shot on multiple iPhones, to Willem Dafoe’s Oscar nomination for The Florida Project, Baker has grown in stature as a director. This leads us to Anora, the writer/director’s eighth feature which won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes festival, and manages to be another exemplary piece of cinema from the creative.

British viewers may find themselves surprised in this film’s opening moments, as a remix of Take That’s ‘Greatest Day’ plays while a line of exotic dancers perform for paying customers.

This review was originally published during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Sean Baker is the type of filmmaker who knows what it takes to make films about difficult human experiences with genuineness and without judgment. In The Florida Project, he demonstrated the hardships faced by a single mother raising a young girl from a motel. With Tangerine, heartbreak from a sex workers perspective was at the forefront. For the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Baker returned with a story about the rise and fall of an exotic dancer's American dream. Anora is an unrealistic, yet lovable rags-to-riches story that is bursting with chaos, hilarity, raunchiness, and a stupendous performance from Mikey Madison.

Anora

Director Sean BakerRelease Date October 18, 2024Studio(s) Cre Film, FilmNation EntertainmentWriters Sean BakerCast Zo Vnak, Anton Bitter, Sophia Carnabuci, Michael Sergio, Vincent Radwinsky, Charlton Lamar, Paul Weissman, Masha Zhak, Alena Gurevich, Emily Weider, Darya Ekamasova, Lindsey Normington, Ross Brodar,...

Mikey Madison is slaying the red carpet!

The 25-year-old posed for photos as she arrived at the latest premiere of her new movie Anora on Tuesday (October 15) held at Regal Times Square in New York City.

Joining Mikey at the premiere were her co-stars Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Darya Ekamasova, Lindsey Normington, Luna Sofia Miranda, and Ivy Wolk along with director and writer Sean Baker.

In the new movie, Mikey plays Anora, a sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Mikey has already garnered a ton of Oscars buzz for her role in the movie, which first premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

Anora hits theaters on October 18 – watch the trailer here!

Sean Baker's new movie Anora is one of the best-reviewed films of the year, which makes the arrival of its anticipated release all the more exciting. After the director's previously acclaimed works like The Florida Project and Red Rocket, the built-in excitement in seeing what he would do next made Anora a project to look forward to. It was only after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival that hype for the film grew to new heights. The response vaulted Anora into the thick of awards season, with it predicted to dominate 2025 Oscar nominations in multiple categories.

The 2024 movie stars Mikey Madison as a sex worker named Anora and follows her life after falling in love. Following its Cannes debut, where it won the Palme d'Or - setting it up as an Oscars 2025 Best Picture nominee, the love for Anora grew with each new festival showing. The result is a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes,...

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, director Sean Baker won the Palme d’Or when his romantic drama Anora was chosen as the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition. The movie has been generating Oscar buzz ever since, with Variety reporting that lead actress Mikey Madison could be one of the “few sure-fire bets” in the Best Actress category, while Baker could end up being nominated as producer, director, writer, and editor. That all remains to be seen, but soon enough we’ll find out how a wider audience responds to the film, as Neon (the distributor behind Best Picture winner Parasite) will be giving Anora a theatrical release this Friday, October 18th. With just a few days to go until that date arrives, a new trailer for the film has been unveiled, and you can check that out in the embed above.

The story Baker crafted for...

“Anora” is a new R-rated feature, written and directed by Sean Baker, winner of the top award at the recent 77th ‘Cannes Film Festival’, starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk, and Luna Sofía Miranda, opening October 18, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Anora’ working in a Brooklyn strip club, gets her chance at a ‘Cinderella’ story when she meets and marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

“But once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened…

“…as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

A new trailer offers a closer look at Anora. The critically acclaimed movie, which hold a Certified Fresh 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes from more than 80 Anora reviews following its premiere at Cannes in May, is the latest feature from writer-director Sean Baker and stars Mikey Madison in the title role as a New York City-based stripper who finds herself plunged into a whole new world of wealth and intrigue when she agrees to marry the rich Russian heir Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn).

Neon has now unveiled the second official trailer for Anora. It kicks off with a full minute exploring how Anora and Vanya meet and fall in love, before bringing in the conflict at the center of the movie when Vanya's parents send a handler to fix their son's mistake. This results in Anora physically fighting back, followed by a shot of her gagged with what appears to be a red scarf.

“Anora” is a new R-rated feature, written and directed by Sean Baker, winner of the top award at the recent 77th ‘Cannes Film Festival’, starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk, and Luna Sofía Miranda, opening October 18, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Anora’ working in a Brooklyn strip club, gets her chance at a ‘Cinderella’ story when she meets and marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

“But once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened…

“…as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Tuesday delivered a big night for Mikey Madison.

“Are you kidding me? This is where I’m from. I was born and raised in Los Angeles and my entire family is here to see this movie for the first time. It’s a little nerve-wracking, too,” revealed the actress while standing outside the iconic Vista Theater in the city’s Los Feliz neighborhood. Madison, 25, has been acting for more than a decade and done many red carpet premieres in her career but the occasion of sitting through Anora for the first time amped up the anxiety with her siblings and best friend also in the building.

The Sean Baker film, released by Neon Oct. 18, marks many firsts for Madison. After racking up credits on Pamela Adlon’s Better Things, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood and the 2022 reboot of Scream, Anora is the first time she’s...

Mikey Madison is hard at work promoting her highly-anticipated new movie!

The 25-year-old actress posed for photos with co-star Mark Eidelstein at a screening of their new movie Anora held during the 2024 Beyond Fest on Tuesday (Oct. 1) at Vista Theatre in Los Angeles.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Vache Tovmasyan, Karren Karagulian, Darya Ekamasova, Yuriy Borisov, and Lindsey Normington along with director and writer Sean Baker.

In the new movie, Mikey plays Anora, a sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Mikey has already garnered a ton of Oscars buzz for her role in Anora, which first premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

Anora hits theaters on Oct. 18 – watch the trailer here!

“Anora” is a new R-rated feature, written and directed by Sean Baker, winner of the top award at the recent 77th ‘Cannes Film Festival’, starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk, and Luna Sofía Miranda, opening October 18, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Anora’ working in a Brooklyn strip club, gets her chance at a ‘Cinderella’ story when she meets and marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

“But once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

“Anora” is a new R-rated feature, written and directed by Sean Baker, winner of the top award at the recent 77th ‘Cannes Film Festival’, starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk, and Luna Sofía Miranda, opening October 18, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Anora’ working in a Brooklyn strip club, gets her chance at a ‘Cinderella’ story when she meets and marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

“But once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

El nuevo largometraje de Sean Baker llega a los cines en Halloween. © Universal Pictures

Universal ha desvelado el nuevo tráiler de Anora, la película galardonada con la codiciada Palma de Oro en el pasado Festival de Cannes que pasará por el Festival de San Sebastián dentro de la sección Perlak.

La dramedia sigue a Anora (Mikey Madison), una joven trabajadora sexual de Brooklyn, que tiene la oportunidad de vivir una historia a lo Cenicienta cuando conoce e impulsivamente se casa con el hijo de un oligarca ruso. Cuando la noticia llega a Rusia, su cuento de hadas se ve amenazado, ya que los padres parten hacia Nueva York para intentar conseguir la anulación del matrimonio.

La película está dirigida por Sean Baker (The Florida Project) y protagonizada por Mikey Madison (Scream). Completan el reparto Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk, Luna Sofía Miranda, Alena Gurevich, Aleksei Serebryakov y Darya Ekamasova.

The Zurich Film Festival (Zff) has unveiled the eleven titles set to screen as part of its Gala programme during its upcoming 20th edition, running October 3 – 13.

The selection features Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winning feature Anora, starring Mikey Madison, Paul Weissman, and Lindsey Normington. Also screening is Steve McQueen’s Blitz. The film is set to open the London Film Festival and stars Saoirse Ronan, Elliot Heffernan, Harris Dickinson and Paul Weller.

The selection also features German filmmaker Edward Berger’s latest feature Conclave. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow. The official synopsis reads: Following the death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Fiennes) is tasked with leading the search for a new Pope in the far corners of the Vatican. Lawrence quickly finds himself at the center of a conspiracy, as the cardinals forge factions and foster rivalries to serve their own ambitions. As the political scheming intensifies,...

“Anora” is a new R-rated feature, written and directed by Sean Baker, winner of the top award at the recent 77th ‘Cannes Film Festival’, starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk, and Luna Sofía Miranda, opening October 18, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Anora’ working in a Brooklyn strip club, gets her chance at a ‘Cinderella’ story when she meets and marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

“But once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Over the last decade, Sean Baker has proven himself to be one of the great American independent filmmakers of the 21st century. From iPhone-shot LGBT drama Tangerine, to spellbinding motel-set coming-of-age movie The Florida Project, to Simon Rex starrer Red Rocket, the writer-director has made a fascinating filmography out of studying characters living amidst the rubble of the American Dream. His latest, Palme d'Or winner Anora, looks set to continue that trend as Baker tells a wild love story revolving around American stripper Anora (Mikey Madison) and Russian oligarch son Vanya (Mark Eidelstein). Check out the first trailer for the film below;

Hoo boy — the Pretty Woman meets Uncut Gems vibes are strong with this one! Set to Blondie banger 'Dreaming', this propulsive first look at Anora is a real tale of two halves. The first half plays out like a 21st century spin on the Richard Gere and Julia Roberts...

La película que conquistó Cannes llegará a los cines en octubre. © Neon

Neon ha publicado el primer tráiler de “Anora”, la película galardonada con la codiciada Palma de Oro en el pasado Festival de Cannes.

La dramedia sigue a Anora (Mikey Madison), una joven trabajadora sexual de Brooklyn, que tiene la oportunidad de vivir una historia a lo Cenicienta cuando conoce e impulsivamente se casa con el hijo de un oligarca ruso. Cuando la noticia llega a Rusia, su cuento de hadas se ve amenazado, ya que los padres parten hacia Nueva York para intentar conseguir la anulación del matrimonio.

La película está dirigida por Sean Baker (“The Florida Project”) y protagonizada por Mikey Madison (“Scream”). Completan el reparto Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk, Luna Sofía Miranda, Alena Gurevich, Aleksei Serebryakov y Darya Ekamasova.

“Anora” se estrena en cines el 31 de octubre.

¡Os dejamos con el tráiler de la película!

“Anora” is a new R-rated feature, written and directed by Sean Baker, winner of the top award at the recent 77th ‘Cannes Film Festival’, starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Lindsey Normington, Ivy Wolk, and Luna Sofía Miranda, opening October 18, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Anora’ working in a Brooklyn strip club, gets her chance at a ‘Cinderella’ story when she meets and marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

“But once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

In the Anora trailer, Mikey Madison (Better Things) stars as a sex worker who impulsively marries a filthy rich man, who happens to be the son of a Russian oligarch.

“What do you do to get all this?” Madison asks him in the trailer.

In the Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket) film, Madison’s Anora gets her happily ever after when she meets and marries the son of a Russian oligarch (Mark Eidelstein) in a Las Vegas chapel. Throughout the trailer, Anora flaunts designer furs, admires her flashy diamond ring,...

The trailer for “Anora,” Sean Baker’ Palme d’Or-winning tale of the love story between a sex worker and the son of a Russian oligarch, is finally here.

The dramedy follows Anora (Mikey Madison), an Uzbek-American stripper whose boss often sets her up with Russian-speaking clients. One night, she meets Vanya (Mark Eidelstein), the wealthy young son of a Russian oligarch who pays to make her his girlfriend for the week. Unexpectedly, the two fall in love and elope — but the fairytale is threatened when Vanya’s parents find out.

“Anora” premiered at Cannes Film Festival in May to a 7.5-minute standing ovation and near universal acclaim. In Variety‘s review, chief film critic Peter Debruge called the movie a “rowdy Safdie-style movie about two cultures (Russian and American), two languages (Russian and English) and two currencies (money and sex).” At the Cannes closing ceremony, “Anora” won the festival’s...

The Sundance Institute revealed the last batch of programming for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival — minus a few last-minute additions to its feature lineup, still to come — by announcing its New Frontier section, which this time around include not only augmented and virtual reality, but also SMS-based text messaging, biotech and artificial intelligence.

Like the innovative work it encompasses, Sundance’s New Frontier program has been evolving in recent years, as the festival aims to bring greater attention to the fields of Vr, artificial intelligence, and outside-the-box new media. During the 11-day event — which takes place from Jan. 23 through Feb. 2, 2020 in Park City, Utah — this work will have a dedicated home at two venues, the New Frontier at The Ray and New Frontier Central.

Some of the more unconventional pieces include “Anti-Gone” (pictured above), an installation that imagines the world post-climate change; “Spaced Out” from French artist Pierre Friquet a.k.