"Anora" director, screenwriter and editor Sean Baker won four Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night, a feat only achieved by one other person: Walt Disney.While Disney won four Oscars for four separate films in 1953 – becoming the first and only person to do so until now – Baker won four Oscars for one film, setting a new record.Disney, the most decorated Oscar winner of all time, won for best documentary (feature), best documentary (short), best short subject (cartoon) and best short subject (two-reel) at the 26th Academy Awards.He won these awards, respectively, for "Water Birds," "The Living Desert," "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Bloom," and "Bear Country."That year, the film phenom was nominated for six awards for six different films. Baker's "Anora" was nominated for six awards: best picture, best original screenplay, best director, best editing, best actress (Mikey Madison) and best supporting actor (Yura Borisov). Baker edits, directs and writes most of his films and has also served as producer and cinematographer for some.
Wearing all of these hats paid off and led him to make history at the Oscars.The film – which is about a young sex worker from New York who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, before his parents find out and put her Cinderella story in jeopardy – took home five out of the six awards it was nominated for.The only one not nabbed was best supporting actor, which went to Kieran Culkin for "A Real Pain."And so, as the writer, editor and director of "Anora," Baker himself won four Oscars for the film, setting a record for most Oscars won by one person for a single film.
Mikey Madison took home the fifth with her best actress win.When he won the Oscar for best editing, Baker said only three individuals are allowed in the editing room with him."Those three people are Samantha Quan, my wife and producer, Alex Coco, my incredible fellow producer, and my dog, Bunson, he gave me some pretty good...