Sean Baker‘s Best Picture Oscar winner Anora will be available to stream on Hulu starting March 17. The streamer’s official Instagram account posted the news.
The film took home the most trophies last night from the 97th ceremony at the Dolby Theater, with Mike Madison winning Best Actress for her titular role and Baker winning three other Oscars — for Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Original Screenplay. Baker tied Walt Disney’s previous record for the most Oscars won by one person in a single night.
Anora distributor Neon has a deal with the streamer, which also has Jessie Eisenberg’s Kieran Culkin-starrer A Real Pain, for which Culkin won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
The film originally landed in theaters Oct. 18, 2024 after it premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival on May 21 last year. The film won the Palme d’Or at the festival, making it the second film to do so for Neon after 2019 Palme d’Or winner Parasite from director Bong Joon Ho.
Anora won one more Oscar than its Palme d’Or predecessor, which took home four Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film. Bong Joon Ho’s next film Mickey-17 arrives in theaters March 7. It premiered at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival.
After winning the prize for Best Directing, which was presented by Quentin Tarantino, Baker thanked the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) director for casting Madison in his film because that is what led Baker to seek her out for Anora.
Anora stars Mikey Madison as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose Cinderella story starts when she meets and quickly weds the son of a Russian oligarch after a week with him in Las Vegas. Once the news reaches Russia, though, her fairytale ending is threatened as her husband’s parents set out to annul the marriage.
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