Best Picture, Anora and Critics Choice Awards

Oscars State Of The Race: ‘Anora’ With Its PGA, DGA & Critics Choice Best Picture Wins Now In Pole Position, But Can It Keep Momentum?
An analysis of the state of the Oscar race after Critics Choice and key guilds make Anora the new frontrunner.
‘Anora’ Is the Best Picture Oscar Frontrunner After ‘Greatest Day’ at DGA and PGA Awards
Palme d'Or winner 'Anora' became the Best Picture Oscar frontrunner after winning the top prizes at the PGA and DGA Awards.
Why Anora might now be the film to beat for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars
Distributor NEON has won Best Picture before with Parasite, shedding the narrative that a film not in the English language can’t win the Oscars’ top honor. Anora hearkens back to the glories of New Hollywood, a time where more risqué subject matter was widely embraced by the Academy voters as conduit for commentary on the times.
Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ Takes Top DGA & PGA Awards Prizes On Same Night – How This Could Predict Oscars
UPDATED with PGA win: Sean Baker won both the PGA Awards ‘ and DGA Awards ‘ top prizes for Neon’s Anora — on the same night. And if past statistics are a signifier of what’s to come, it is a major indicator for both the Oscars’ Best Director category as well as Best Picture.
‘Anora’ takes PGA and DGA top honors. Is the Oscar next?
Sean Baker's freewheeling fractured fairy tale took top honors from both the producing and directing guilds, restoring its front-runner status at the Oscars.
‘Anora’ surges ahead in the Best Picture race after surprise PGA, DGA wins: Oscar analysis
Maybe Anora was the frontrunner all along. In the weeks since the Oscar nominations were announced, Oscar pundits and awards strategists have treated the wide-open Best Picture race like an adaptation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears,

Anora gains momentum

What Film Gets the Best Awards Boost at iTunes? That’s ‘Anora’
Sean Baker’s film has ranked now for seven weeks, an unusually long run. With staged price levels (initially, the standard ...
PGA Awards: ‘Anora’ Takes Home Top Film Prize
In addition to the competitive awards, Dana Walden, Taika Waititi, Chris Meledandri and the late Lynda Obst and Paula ...
Hollywood Minute: ‘Anora’ leads the pack on a big movie awards weekend
Anora’ topped the DGA, PGA, and Critics Choice Awards, as ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘The Wild Robot,’ ‘Flow,’ and ‘A Complete Unknown’ ...
Mikey Madison Believes ‘Anora' Mines the ‘Humor and Silliness' of Sex, but Also the Reality of Making It a Living
"Anora" has now leapt back into its Best Picture frontrunner status with wins at both the PGA and DGA Awards last night.
How Sean Baker pulled off that surprise DGA win for ‘Anora’
Alexa, play “Greatest Day,” because Anora had one on Saturday. The Neon film regained pole position in the Best Picture Oscar ...
'Anora' wins at Producers and Directors Guild Awards
Did a wide-open Oscar race just get a frontrunner? Sean Baker's Brooklyn comedy “Anora” took top honors at both the Producers ...
'Anora' topples 'Emilia Pérez' to shake up the Oscars Best Picture race. This formula predicts which movie will come out on top.
The Best Picture race looks vastly different days after a controversy involving the star of "Emilia Pérez" surfaced.