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Anora
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySean Baker
Written bySean Baker
Produced by
  • Alex Coco
  • Samantha Quan
  • Sean Baker
Starring
  • Mikey Madison
  • Mark Eydelshteyn
  • Yura Borisov
  • Karren Karagulian
  • Vache Tovmasyan
  • Darya Ekamasova
  • Aleksei Serebryakov
CinematographyDrew Daniels
Edited bySean Baker
Music byMatthew Hearon-Smith
Production
companies
  • FilmNation Entertainment
  • Cre Film
Distributed byNeon
Release dates
  • May 21, 2024 (2024-05-21) (Cannes)
  • October 18, 2024 (2024-10-18) (United States)
Running time
139 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish[1]
Budget$6 million[2]
Box office$52.2 million[3][4]

Anora is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama[5] film written, directed, produced, and edited by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva, a stripper from New York who marries the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch played by Mark Eydelshteyn. The supporting cast includes Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Darya Ekamasova, and Aleksei Serebryakov.

Anora premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2024, where it received critical acclaim and won the Palme d'Or. It was released theatrically on October 18, 2024, by Neon. The film grossed $52.2 million worldwide against a $6 million budget, making it Baker's highest-grossing film.

Anora received numerous accolades. The film was named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. It took home the most awards at the 97th Academy Awards, winning five Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Madison), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing, only losing one of its nominations. It additionally won Best Actress (Madison) and Best Casting (Baker and Samantha Quan) at the 78th British Academy Film Awards.

Plot[]

Anora "Ani" Mikheeva, a 23-year-old stripper, lives in Brighton Beach, a Russian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. Her boss introduces her to Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov, the 21-year-old son of the Russian oligarch Nikolai Zakharov, who requests someone fluent in Russian. Though Vanya is in the U.S. to study, he spends most of his time partying in clubs and playing video games in his lavish Brooklyn mansion.

Vanya hires Anora for several sexual encounters. She attends a New Year’s Eve party Vanya throws at the mansion, and the following morning, he offers her $15,000 to be his girlfriend for a week. During a trip to Las Vegas, he reveals that he has to return to Russia permanently to work at his father’s company and expresses disdain for his parents. He impulsively proposes marriage. Anora agrees, and they elope at a wedding chapel. Vanya buys her a large engagement ring and takes her on a shopping spree. She resigns from her job and moves into Vanya's mansion. When news of their marriage reaches Russia, Vanya's mother, Galina, orders his Armenian godfather, Toros, to find them and arrange an annulment while she and Nikolai fly to the U.S.

Toros sends his henchmen, Garnik and Igor, to the mansion. They inform Vanya that his parents are taking him back to Russia and enrages Anora by calling her a prostitute, suggesting Vanya only married her for a green card. Vanya escapes, and Anora fights Garnik and Igor before they subdue and restrain her. When Toros arrives, he tells Anora that Vanya’s mansion and wealth belong to his parents and that he is financially dependent on them. He confiscates her wedding ring, gags her, and offers her $10,000 for the annulment. Anora insists she and Vanya are in love, but she agrees to help find him.

Anora, Toros, Garnik, and Igor search Brooklyn. Anora learns from friends that Vanya is at her former strip club, where he is being entertained by a rival dancer. They find him intoxicated and force him to wait outside the courthouse until morning. The annulment is dismissed since the marriage occurred in Nevada.

At the airport, Anora introduces herself to Nikolai and Galina in Russian, yet Galina rejects her. Vanya, conceding to his parents, tells Anora their marriage is impossible, and Galina orders everyone onto a plane to Las Vegas. Having not signed a prenuptial agreement, Anora pledges to file for a divorce settlement, but Galina threatens her with financial ruin if she does not agree. Realizing Vanya's spinelessness and his family's power, Anora signs the annulment papers. Igor suggests Vanya apologize, but Galina refuses. Anora insults them both before leaving, telling Galina that Vanya married her to rile his mother, to Nikolai's amusement.

Igor takes Anora back to New York to collect her belongings. At the mansion, she confronts Igor about their encounter, accusing him of assault and saying he would have raped her if they had been alone, an accusation Igor denies. The next morning, Igor gives Anora the money and drives her home. In the car, he returns her wedding ring as a goodwill gesture. Anora initiates sex with him but stops when he tries to kiss her; she breaks down and sobs in his arms.

Cast[]

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  • Mikey Madison as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva, a high-priced stripper at the Headquarters strip club[6]
  • Mark Eydelshteyn (alternatively anglicized to "Eidelstein") as Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov, the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch[7]
  • Yura Borisov as Igor, a Russian henchman hired by Toros to look after Vanya
  • Karren Karagulian as Toros, an Armenian handler employed by Vanya's father to look after him
  • Vache Tovmasyan as Garnik, an Armenian henchman and Toros' brother
  • Aleksei Serebryakov as Nikolai Zakharov, Vanya's father
  • Darya Ekamasova as Galina Zakharova, Vanya's mother
  • Luna Sofía Miranda as Lulu, another Headquarters stripper and a friend of Ani's
  • Lindsey Normington as Diamond, an unfriendly Headquarters stripper who competes with Ani for clients
  • Vincent Radwinsky as Jimmy, an owner at the Headquarters strip club
  • Anton Bitter as Tom, Vanya's friend who works at a Coney Island candy shop
  • Ivy Wolk as Crystal, Vanya's friend who works at a Coney Island candy shop
  • Vlad Mamai as Aleks, Vanya's friend
  • Maria Tichinskaya as Dasha, Vanya's friend
  • Charles Jang as Vegas Hotel Manager
  • Emily Weider as Nikki, a stripper
  • Brittney Rodriguez as Dawn, a manager at Headquarters
  • Sophia Carnabuci as Jenny, a stripper
  • Ella Rubin as Vera, Ani's roommate
  • Alena Gurevich as Klara, a housekeeper for the Zakharova mansion
  • Artyom Trubnikov as Michael Sharnov, a lawyer
  • Michael Sergio as judge

Production[]

File:Sean Baker and Samantha Quan.jpg

Director Sean Baker with his wife and co-producer Samantha Quan

The director, Sean Baker, said Anora was inspired by a story from a friend about a Russian-American newlywed kidnapped for collateral. He was also inspired by his work in 2000 and 2001, when he edited wedding videos, including ones of Russian-Americans in New York.[8]:47 Baker said his intentions were towards "telling human stories, by telling stories that are hopefully universal [...] It's helping remove the stigma that's been applied to [sex work], that's always been applied to this livelihood."[9] Baker hired Andrea Werhun, a Canadian writer and actress known for her 2018 memoir Modern Whore about her prior time as a sex worker, as a creative consultant.[10]

Baker cast Mikey Madison after seeing her in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Scream (2022).[8]:47[11] He hired Madison without an audition.[12] Madison learned Russian, visited strip clubs, and studied the Brooklyn accent to prepare.[12] Although some media outlets incorrectly reported that Anora Mikheeva was Uzbek-American, Baker said that Anora "is of Russian ethnicity" and "from one of the post-Soviet countries".[11][13][14]

Principal photography took place starting in February 2023 in Brooklyn, including the neighborhoods of Brighton Beach, Coney Island, and Sheepshead Bay.[15][16] Anora was filmed over 37 days, with the 25-minute home invasion scene taking 10 days. It was shot on Kodak 35 mm film framed in 4-perf widescreen anamorphic using an Arricam LT, with color correction completed via DaVinci Resolve at FotoKem.[16][8]:45-46 Vintage LOMO prime and zoom lenses were mainly used for filming, while Atlas Orion lenses were used for low-light scenes.[16] Scenes were also shot at the Palms Casino Resort and on Fremont Street in Las Vegas.[16] The film's cinematography was inspired by 1970s crime dramas set in New York, including The French Connection and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.[16] Alex Coco, one of the producers, worked as a disc jockey for the music in the scenes in the club.[8]:49 Baker is credited with the casting, with the cast including more than 30 different speaking parts.[8]:54

For the Zakharov mansion, Baker filmed at 2458 National Drive, a Mill Basin mansion once owned by Vasily Anisimov, an oligarch with ties to Russia. Baker had searched on Google for "the biggest and best mansion in Brighton Beach".[17] To learn more about the area, Baker and Mikey Madison temporarily moved to southern Brooklyn during pre-production. Toros and Ani's search for Vanya was filmed in several restaurants and clubs that the producers had frequented.[18]

At a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, Madison said that Baker and the producer Samantha Quan, Baker's wife, would act out different sex positions to demonstrate what they wanted the actors to do. Madison was offered an intimacy coordinator, but said: "As I'd already created a really comfortable relationship with both of them for about a year, I felt that that would be where I was most comfortable with and it ended up working so perfectly."[9]

The soundtrack includes Robin Schulz rework of "Greatest Day" by Take That and "All the Things She Said" by t.A.T.u. Madison also said that her friend curated a "stripper playlist" for her to get into character, including tracks from Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Slayyyter.[19]

Release[]

File:Cast and crew of Anora at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.jpg

Yura Borisov, Sean Baker, Mikey Madison, Karren Karagulian, and Vache Tovmasyan at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival

Worldwide distribution rights were acquired by FilmNation Entertainment in October 2023. The film was then sold by FilmNation to Le Pacte for France, Lev for Israel, Kismet for Australia and New Zealand, and Focus Features/Universal Pictures International for the rest of the world excluding North America in deals similar to those made on Baker's previous film, Red Rocket.[15] In November 2023, Neon acquired North American distribution rights to the film,[20] and opened it in limited release on October 18, 2024.[21][22]

Anora premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2024,[23][24] and won the festival's Palme d'Or on May 25.[25] It earned a 10-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening.[26] It became the fifth consecutive Palme d'Or winner distributed by Neon in the United States,[27] and the first American-produced film to win the Palme d'Or since Terrence Malick's 2011 epic The Tree of Life.[28]

Anora also played at the Toronto International Film Festival,[29] the New York Film Festival,[30] the San Sebastián International Film Festival,[31] the Busan International Film Festival,[32] the BFI London Film Festival,[33] the Rome Film Festival[34] and several others. It was also the closing film at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024.[35] The film was released on digital platforms on December 17, 2024,[36] with a streaming release on Hulu on March 17, 2025.[37] It will be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection on April 29.[38]

According to Tom Quinn, CEO of Neon, the P&A and the awards season publicity campaign budget was $18 million.[39]

Reception[]

Box office[]

As of March 16, 2025, Anora had grossed $19.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $32.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $52.2 million.[3][4]

In the United States, the film made $550,503 in its opening weekend from six theaters; its per-screen-average of $91,751 was the best of 2024 (topping Kinds of Kindness' $75,458 average), and the second-best since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (after Asteroid City's $142,230).[40][41] Expanding to 34 theaters in its second weekend, the film made $908,830 and finished in eighth place.[42] Continuing its expansion, the film made $1.8 million from 253 theaters and $2.5 million from 1,104 in its third and fourth weekends.[43][44] In its 21st week of release in March, following its five Oscar wins, the film was added to 1,130 theaters (for a total of 1,938) and made $1.8 million (an increase of 574% from the previous week), finishing in seventh.[45][46]

Critical response[]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 333 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Another marvelous chronicle of America's strivers by writer-director Sean Baker given some extra pizzazz by Mikey Madison's brassy performance, Anora is a romantic drama on the bleeding edge."[47] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 91 out of 100, based on 62 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[48] On AlloCiné, the film received an average rating of 4.2 out of 5, based on 45 reviews, from French critics.[49]

Greta Gerwig, serving as the president of the 77th Cannes Film Festival Jury, commented that "[Anora] was something we collectively felt we were transported by, we were moved by [...] It felt both new and in conversation with older forms of cinema. There was something about it that reminded us of [the] classic structures of Lubitsch or Howard Hawks, and then it did something completely truthful and unexpected."[50]

Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote: "[Anora is] a wild, profane blast [...] Even when Baker's storytelling and dialogue gets repetitive, Madison keeps things lively [...] Still, a darkness thrums under the surface of all this flirting and bickering. Ani is forever yanked this way and that, degraded and disregarded [...] I found myself torn between finding Baker's conclusions compassionate and sensing a vague whiff of something patronizing."[51] Justin Chang of The New Yorker wrote: "Anora plays like a wild dream—first joyous, then catastrophic, and always fiercely unpredictable [...] A contemporary return to screwball tradition is a welcome but challenging proposition, and Baker's play with the form is hardly seamless. [Anora] built up a righteous steam of fury, now unleashes it against the Ivans of the world and salutes those toiling thanklessly in their employ."[11]

Sight and Sound named Anora the second-best film of 2024,[52] and Film Comment named it one of the ten best.[53] In 2025, Collider ranked the film at number 36 on its list of "The 40 Best Movies of the 2020s", with Jeremy Urquhart terming it "something of a modern classic".[54] Anora was praised by many filmmakers and actors.[55][56][57][58][59][60] However, one commentator, Russian-Jewish screenwriter Mikhail Idov [ru], found it difficult to reconcile support for the film, given the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine; he commented in the New York Times on February 27, 2025, "Its Oscar nominations, especially the best supporting actor one for Yura Borisov, have been touted by some as a national victory in Russia. Which puts me in the unsettling position of being in some truly terrible company in cheering for it."[61]

Reaction from sex workers[]

Anora received praise from some sex workers for its depiction of the profession, which they described as a step forward from films of the past that tended to portray sex work as a social transgression worthy of condemnation.[62][63][64] In a piece for Slate, Risdon Roberts compared the character of Ani to Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman, writing the former "is not a desperate or trafficked waif, nor is she a hooker with a heart of gold. Baker doesn't even set out to make [Ani] worthy of sympathy—instead, we're in awe of her prowess as she works the floor of a high-end strip club while the opening credits play ... Right away, it's clear that we're rooting for Ani not because she's down and out like Vivian—we're rooting for her because she's shrewd and in control".[62]

Tiff Smith said, "We're seeing a fully developed character doing sex work without their profession defining them—that's what representation really is."[64] Some said Baker's hiring of sex workers for the production as consultants and cast members was reflected in the film's attention to detail like the mundane realities of strip club life and labor issues.[65][63]

Others felt that the film reverted to regressive stereotypes about sex workers as downtrodden and "in need of saving".[62][66][67] A UK-based sex worker commented that the film "rehashes the 'traumatised, vulnerable sex worker' trope, which we've seen a thousand times before".[67] Marla Cruz opined that little is revealed about Ani's life outside of sex work, and that an exploration of the "boundary between Ani the person and Ani the worker" is absent.[66] Ayanna Dozier wrote "the film narratively builds upon and follows the social imaginaries of sex workers as subhuman projections for other people's fantasies".[68] Cruz wrote that it is debatable "whether Ani becomes more clear-eyed about her relationship to power, men, and money throughout the film".[66] Though Roberts appreciated the film generally, she critiqued the ending, writing that for real-life sex workers, the true goal is not to be saved by a man, but "is about survival (or, ideally, transcending the need to survive)".[62] She added that rather than representing the knights in shining armor archetype, "Clients are a means to an end. Money can't break your heart."[62]

Accolades[]

Main article: List of accolades received by Anora
File:Mikey Madison at the 2024 New York Film Festival 1 (cropped).jpg

Mikey Madison won the Academy Award for Best Actress

Anora won the Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.[69] It was nominated for five awards at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, seven at the 78th British Academy Film Awards (winning Best Actress and Best Casting) and six at the 97th Academy Awards with Baker, Madison, and Borisov receiving nominations at each ceremony.[70][71][72] The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, becoming the fourth film (after The Lost Weekend, Marty, and Parasite) to win both it and the highest award at Cannes.[8][73] Baker equalled the record set by Walt Disney for the most Academy Awards won by person in one year and is the only person to win all four for the same film.[74][75]

The American Film Institute and the National Board of Review named Anora as one of the top 10 films of 2024.[76][77] At the 30th Critics' Choice Awards, it became the first film to only win Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture and none of its other six nominations.[78]

See also[]

  • Social realism
  • List of American films of 2024
  • American independent cinema
  • List of films that most frequently use the word fuck

References[]

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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Anora (2024)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on December 19, 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2025. {{cite web}}:
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Palme d'Or winning films
Union Pacific (1939) • Torment (Hets) (1946) • The Lost Weekend (1946) • The Red Meadows (1946) • Brief Encounter (1946) • María Candelaria (1946) • Neecha Nagar (1946) • The Turning Point (1946) • La Symphonie pastorale (1946) • The Last Chance (1946) • Men Without Wings (1946) • Rome, Open City (1946) • Ziegfeld Follies (1947) • Antoine and Antoinette (1947) • Dumbo (1947) • Crossfire (1947) • The Damned (1947) • The Third Man (1949) • Miss Julie (1951) • Miracle in Milan (1951) • The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1951) • Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952) • The Wages of Fear (1953) • Gate of Hell (1954) • Marty (1955) • The Silent World (1956) • Friendly Persuasion (1957) • The Cranes Are Flying (1958) • Black Orpheus (1959) • La Dolce Vita (1960) • The Long Absence (1961) • Viridiana (1961) • O Pagador de Promessas (1962) • The Leopard (1963) • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) • The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965) • A Man and a Woman (1966) • The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) • Blowup (1967) • if.... (1969) • M*A*S*H (1970) • The Go-Between (1971) • The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1972) • The Mattei Affair (1972) • The Hireling (1973) • Scarecrow (1973) • The Conversation (1974) • Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975) • Taxi Driver (1976) • Padre Padrone (1977) • The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) • Apocalypse Now (1979) • The Tin Drum (1979) • All That Jazz (1980) • Kagemusha (1980) • Man of Iron (1981) • Missing (1982) • Yol (1982) • The Ballad of Narayama (1983) • Paris, Texas (1984) • When Father Was Away on Business (1985) • The Mission (1986) • Under the Sun of Satan (1987) • Pelle the Conqueror (1988) • Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) • Wild at Heart (1990) • Barton Fink (1991) • The Best Intentions (1992) • Farewell My Concubine (1993) • The Piano (1993) • Pulp Fiction (1994) • Underground (1995) • Secrets & Lies (1996) • Taste of Cherry (1997) • The Eel (1997) • Eternity and a Day (1998) • Rosetta (1999) • Dancer in the Dark (2000) • The Son's Room (2001) • The Pianist (2002) • Elephant (2003) • Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) • The Child (2005) • The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) • The Class (2008) • The White Ribbon (2009) • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) • The Tree of Life (2011) • Amour (2012) • Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013) • Winter Sleep (2014) • Dheepan (2015) • I, Daniel Blake (2016) • The Square (2017) • Shoplifters (2018) • Parasite (2019)
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