{"id":34870,"date":"2025-03-03T09:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/anora-has-swept-the-oscars-i-cant-help-feeling-that-shouldnt-have-happened-catherine-shoard\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:33:46","slug":"anora-has-swept-the-oscars-i-cant-help-feeling-that-shouldnt-have-happened-catherine-shoard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/anora-has-swept-the-oscars-i-cant-help-feeling-that-shouldnt-have-happened-catherine-shoard\/","title":{"rendered":"Anora has swept the Oscars. I can\u2019t help feeling that shouldn\u2019t have happened | Catherine Shoard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Baker\u2019s film is muddled, hollow at the middle and about the fifth least vital of the best picture lineup<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/mar\/03\/oscars-2025-how-anora-won-best-picture\">How Anora swept the Oscars<\/a> \u2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/mar\/02\/oscars-academy-awards-winners-live\">the complete list of winners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/gallery\/2025\/mar\/03\/oscars-2025-the-red-carpet-in-pictures\">The red carpet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/gallery\/2025\/mar\/03\/oscars-2025-photos-celebrities\">Oscars ceremony<\/a> \u2013 in pictures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is hard to imagine a more charming Oscar winner than Sean Baker. The director \u2013 and writer, editor and producer \u2013 of Anora was wonderfully persuasive and gracious and fluent at the Academy Awards. He was funny picking up best editing, and then he was sweet accepting the screenwriter prize.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to the directing gong, he was downright godlike: the podium his soapbox, superbly leveraged for a gang-busting call to arms about the importance of cinema and the need for people to support bricks and mortar venues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/mar\/03\/anora-sean-baker-oscars-best-picture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Baker\u2019s film is muddled, hollow at the middle and about the fifth least vital of the best picture lineup How Anora swept the Oscars \u2013 and the complete list of winners The red carpet and Oscars ceremony \u2013 in pictures It is hard to imagine a more charming Oscar winner than Sean Baker. The &#8230; <a title=\"Anora has swept the Oscars. I can\u2019t help feeling that shouldn\u2019t have happened | Catherine Shoard\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/anora-has-swept-the-oscars-i-cant-help-feeling-that-shouldnt-have-happened-catherine-shoard\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Anora has swept the Oscars. I can\u2019t help feeling that shouldn\u2019t have happened | Catherine Shoard\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}