44 m. ago Canadian Anora producer, Vancouver Dune VFX supervisors Oscar winners

'I don't know how this can be real life. This is really an incredible, impossible journey for the past 10 months,' producer Samantha Quan said before thanking her family

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47 m. ago Why ‘Anora’ dominated the Oscars, including Mikey Madison’s big win

The more Hollywood changes, the more it remains the same. Let us count the ways that “Anora” running the tables at the 97th Academy Awards is a groundbreaking accomplishment. Mikey Madison, at 25, is the ninth-youngest best actress winner. Sean Baker is the first person to win four Oscars for the same movie: He produced, […]

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13 h. ago Big night for Vancouverites at the Oscars with wins for best picture and visual effects

Vancouver producer Samantha Quan won best picture as part of the producing team for Anora, while Stephen James and Rhys Salcombe won as visual effects supervisors for Dune: Part Two

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16 h. ago Oscars spread awards around to ’Anora,’ ’Conclave’ and ’Wicked’

LOS ANGELES — The 97th Academy Awards are spreading the love around, dishing out awards to “Anora,” “Conclave,” “Wicked” and “The Substance” in the ceremony’s first half. The two films seen as the most likely to win best picture, “Anora” and “Conclave,” each took an award for screenplay. “Conclave” scribe Peter Straughan won best adapted […]

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16 h. ago Strip club Cinderella story ’Anora’ wins best picture at Oscars

LOS ANGELES — “Anora,” a strip club Cinderalla story without the fairy tale ending, was crowned best picture at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Sean Baker’s gritty, Brooklyn-set screwball farce Hollywood’s top prize. In a stubbornly fluctuating Oscar season, “Anora,” the Palme d’Or-winner at the Cannes Film Festival, emerged as the unlikely frontrunner. […]

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16 h. ago Oscars 2025 winners list: ‘Anora’ wins 5 awards, including best picture

This year the focus is on the music with musical 'Emilia Pérez,' Broadway musical adaptation 'Wicked' and Bob Dylan musical biopic 'A Complete Unknown.'

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24 h. ago ’Dune’ director Villeneuve, ’Anora’ producer Quan among Canadians up for Oscars

Canadian filmmakers behind two of the year’s most buzzed-about films will go head-to-head for the best picture trophy at tonight’s Oscars. Quebec director/producer Denis Villeneuve and producer Tanya Lapointe are nominated for their sci-fi epic “Dune: Part Two.” Meanwhile, Vancouver producer Samantha Quan and U.S. director Sean Baker earned a nod for their tragicomic dramedy […]

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1 week ago Oscar favourite Anora wins best international honour from Vancouver Film Critics Circle

Vancouver director Ann Marie Fleming's Can I Get a Witness earns VFCC honours for her and stars Sandra Oh and Kiera Jang

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