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Sean Baker matches 70-year-old Oscars record held by Walt Disney

Baker becomes only second person to claim four individual Oscars in one night, feat last completed by Disney in 1954

Sean Baker’s four Oscar wins for Anora has seen the director match a 70-year old record held by one of Hollywood’s biggest names: Walt Disney. In winning for best picture, best director, best editing and best original screenplay, Baker has become only the second person to claim four individual Oscars on a single night, a feat last completed by Disney in 1954, when he won best documentary for The Living Desert, best documentary short for The Alaskan Eskimo, best short cartoon Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom; and best short subject for Bear Country. The haul completes a remarkable rise for Baker, a director who had previously been considered something of an arthouse film outsider and who, before Anora, had never received a single Oscar nomination.

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