When Luna Sofia Miranda approached Sean Baker in a strip club in New York in 2022, she tried her best to charm him. But he "very clearly did not want to buy a lap dance," she says. Miranda, who was 23 at the time, started asking why he and his wife were there.

"Anora" also won best director for Sean Baker, best actress for Mikey Madison and trophies for original screenplay and editing.

Anora has won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, with writer-director Sean Baker taking home the statuette. The win is Baker’s first at the Academy Awards, where he’s personally scored his first set of four nominations this year,