Sean Baker Thanks Quentin Tarantino for the connection of Mikey Madison at the Oscar victory

Sean Baker gave Oscars moderator and colleague, Quentin Tarantino, on stage at the Academy Awards, a shout-out Anora.

Tarantino announced Baker as a winner in the category, immediately afterwards Baker praised Tarantino’s It was once in Hollywood. This film showed its future Anora Star Mikey Madison as Manson family member Susan “Sadie” Atkins.

“Quentin if you haven’t occupied Mikey Madison It was onceThere would be no Anora“Baker said before he held his acceptance speech.” Thanks. Thank you for all your incredible work. ”

Before speaking to Entertainment weeklyBaker revealed that Madison’s physical performance in her character’s death scene with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio was hit, which was to cut her eyes with dog food and bring on fire.

“She blew me in this scene, so I said:” Who is this person? She steals Brad Pitt’s scene! “” Said Baker in an October interview on EW. “It was an amazing moment. I saw it again and was really convinced: ‘Okay, she’s a find.’ Then I went back a third time to see this scene.

Later in the Oscars night, Madison won the best actress in a big surprise for the forecast winner Demi Moore and gave Baker’s comments even more weight.

“We are all here tonight and look at this show because we love films,” said Baker during his acceptance speech. “Where did we fall in love with films? In the cinema. Watching a film in a theater with an audience is an experience. We can laugh together, scream, scream and sit together in destroyed silence. At a time when the world can feel very shared, this is more important than ever.”

He continued: “It is a municipal experience that you just don’t get at home, and at the moment the theater experience is threatened. Film theater, especially independent of obsessed cinemas, fights and it is up to us to support you. During the pandemic, we lose almost 1,000 screens in the USA.

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He asked the filmmakers to continue to make films for the big screen, to focus distributors in order to first concentrate on theater runs for their films, to make parents “the next generation of film lovers” by presenting their children in films in the cinemas, and “All us” about “When we can We Caning films in the theater”.

Baker continued to sit down for indie filmmaking and theater experience Anora I won five Oscars. He was also the first person to broke a record that won four Oscar awards in a ceremony for the same film: film processing, original script, best director and best picture.

The 25-year-old Madison became the ninth actress who won in the category. Marlee Matlin is still the youngest after winning the prize for 1987 Children of a lower God At 21.

In her acceptance speech, Madison said: “Many thanks to the academy. I grew up in Los Angeles, but Hollywood always felt that far away from me. It is really incredible to stand here in this room.”

The actress, also known for roles in Scream And Better thingsAnd then recognized the sex worker community. “I will continue to support and be an ally,” she said. “All incredible people, the women I had, was the privilege to meet this community was one of the highlights of this incredible experience.”