The mini-budget film Anora rolled at the Oscar gala-and there’s nothing new

Six one million.

Producer Alex Coco mentioned the amount on stage in his thank you speech after receiving Oscar gala Grand Prize.

And it is now a significant, much -speaking figure. So much dollars paid for this year’s largest Oscare winner Aor.

Sean Baker The drama comedy directed by and written by the Gala, the best guidance, the female lead, the original script and the surgery, were awarded as the best movie and four other gala categories.

Six million dollars are really small as the budget for the American movie. Anharan The victory itself is an inspirational story of how scant resources can get a great impression – which is also noticed, on the top stairs in the industry.

And For Sean Baker, 54, the gala was an indication that uncompromising and diligence could produce results. He has a 25 -year career and seven long films that have all been done Anora with smaller mini -budgets. He has wanted to do his job on his own terms and tell about people living in marginal.

HS: N Eleonora leukeinen wrote before the gala on how to make the acclaimed Arthouse films-like ten Oscar nominations The Brutalistin supervisor Brady Corbet – Not necessarily earning a dollar with work. Baker has been a member of the same group for decades. “Until recently I have had to make an effort to pay the rent,” he said For ap in the fall.

Baker and producers of Coco and Samantha Quan They also spoke emphatically on the prize platform for the indie movie. It refers to independent films made outside of large film studios (which are now included in streaming giants).

In anora It would also be a good idea to celebrate David’s victory over Goliath. How passionate the little film wins giant Hollywood productions.

But There is nothing new about it anymore.

The last ten years can accommodate several indie-oscar winners: Moonlight (2015), Neither (2020) as well as Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), the first two of which were made Anharan with low levels of small money.

In the 80s, 90s and 00s, the Hollywood giants gathered almost the Oscars of the Best Movie. Sademies, Forrest Gump, Titanic, Gladiator, Chicago, The Departed… At the same time, the general audience and at the same time high -quality films that it was easy to raise the jury and leave the indie factors to lick their fingers.

The ship later turned. Large quality drama began to be done less and less in Hollywood. Large studios began to fill the screens with just peat, full -fledged fairy tales and spectacles.

For a few years now, more than half of the Oscar competitors in the Best Movie have been indie production. Top Gun-, Avatar– and Tire-Blockbuster like the extensions have been mainly in pity, last year Oppenheimerthe victory and Barbie-Drug felt anomaly.

Perhaps Goliath is still returning to the Oscars as a viable competitor, but now David is rumbling. And there are also movie friends, year after year.