The waiver, sang by taking it, which opens “Aor“(Neon) -” Today this can be the biggest day in our lives ” -sounds like a manifestation of the Palme d’Or -winner Awards Campaign for the past 24 hours. On Saturday night, two Guild Award wins, Best picture on PGA and Best director at DGAFollowed the surprise best Film Win on Friday’s 2025 Critics Choice Awards.
After a wide field with six best picture challengers, we finally have a front entrance in the Oscar race.
During the usual DGA ACCEPTANCE RESPONSE before the announcement of the winner at the end of the night, “Anora” -helmer Sean Baker expressed his admiration for his guildmates and made a different basis for the theater distribution similar to what he stated at the CCAs. “Let’s do what we can do for us to play filmmakers to expand that theater window again; require it. Let’s get it back to what it used to be, ”Baker said. “At least 90 days and really support cinemas.”
These are APT campaign messages, given that the last two best picture winners, “everything everywhere at once” and “Oppenheimer”, were success stories for cash office that showed that the audience still had appetite for non-franchise movies. After winning the theater film award at DGAS, Baker Neon thanked for “putting everything in that theater publishing and supporting a long theater window from the first day we won at Cannes.”
The studio already has a best picture win under its belt with “parasite”, which started Neon’s five -year row of distribution Palme d’or winner at CannesWith “Anora” as the latest and fourth of gangs nominated for the Oscar Prize for best image. When it was released in October 2024 became “Anora” Most successful platform release The year so far ($ 34 million all over the world).
“Anora” has both international and state appeal as an American Palme d’Or winner, the first since “Tree of Life” in 2011. It is positive, as about 10,000 Oscar voters are 20 percent international. That said, the Golden Globes, which has a similar global demographic (by journalists, not filmmakers) assigned “Anora” nothing during its ceremony in January.
PGA and DGA winnings could not have come to a better time, as these first TV numbers for “Anora” are probably the last Academy members will hear before the final Oscar vote opens on Tuesday, February 11. These winnings give “Anora” momentum.
Those who contained hope for “Wicked”, “Conclave”, “A Completely Unknown”, “The Brutalist” or the besieged “Emilia Pérez” now have confirmation of a crowdpleaser who plays as well as critics and critics.
“Anora” is also nominated at the WGA and BAFTA Award, both of which occur before the last Oscar vote will be closed on February 18. Baker has two more chances to win the best original script for the movie, and his star Mikey Madison and supporting players Yura Borisov Have the chance to win their first television award at the latter ceremony.
As I said the “Substance” star and Globe and CCA winner Demi Moore received the most applause from any presenter at DGA AWARDS 2025, before handing over the Michael Apted Award for outstanding director in the first time theater film to “Nickel Boys” director Ramell Ross.
CCA winner Moore will probably shine at the Sag Awards on February 25, where “Anora” has another shot for some victories for best ensemble, Madison and Borisov. The fact that Breakout Borisov landed the supportive nods is a sign of strength for the film.
“Anora” dga -victory rippled through the long Due to Awards The ceremony at Fairmont Century Plaza, and certainly enough, “Anora” took the last victory, as producer/director/author Baker, who had run over from the DGAs, thanked his producers, Mrs. Samantha Quan and Alex Coco. It was a good night.
The important thing about PGA winnings: Like Oscars, it is a favorable vote. This means that voters are ranked their choices and during that process “Anora” rose to the top. They like it, they really like it.
Another Oscar pre-premises that you can take to the bank, despite much affection for Latvian Latvian film “Flow”, Universal’s CCA and PGA winner “The Wild Robot” will win the best animated feature on Oscars. And the documentary Oscar Race is as opaque as ever, as the PGA winner, “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” was not nominated. On the other hand, the nominated “porcelain war” took the dga win.
While PGA has already collected $ 450 million for people who lost their homes in the Los Angeles fires, the often repeated foundation was to return production to Los Angeles. Amen.
