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Why the Oscars Put a Ring on Anora
The Best Picture winner’s early setbacks may have been blessings in disguise.
Similarly, voters had time to get acclimated to Baker’s unique style: his run-and-gun cinematography, his nonjudgemental view of sex work, his lack of the usual arthouse piety. The scene where the titular character fends off three goons is plenty harrowing — you never lose sight of the fact this young woman is in a physical altercation with three very large men — but Baker also takes care to break the tension with a laugh line, or a pitch-perfect reaction shot, the very elements that helped him earn Best Editing earlier in the night. In the era of the expanded Best Picture category, the top prize typically goes to the most likable contender, rather than the most dazzling achievement, and most awards-season observers agreed that Anora was this season’s Miss Congeniality.
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