The small budget indie flick, Anora, was the biggest winner at last night's Academy Awards.

It won five Oscars, including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.

Mikey Madison won for her portrayal of the title character, becoming one of the youngest to win in that latter category.

Stephanie Sy has more for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

Anora tells the story of a New York sex worker who falls in love with the son of a wealthy

Russian oligarch produced with just $6 million. The film was directed, written, edited,

and produced by Sean Baker, who swept those categories and is now tied with

Walt Disney for the most Oscars won in a single night. For more on Sean Baker's sweep and

other highlights from the Oscars, I'm joined by Justin Chang, a film critic at The New Yorker,

who also reviews movies for NPR's Fresh Air. Justin, welcome back to The NewsHour.

So what did you think of the Oscars this year?

And in particular, the success of Enora, which, as I understand it, takes on a marginalized

community and at least I've read, destigmatizes and humanizes sex work.

Yeah, thank you, Stephanie.

It absolutely does that.

And this is something that has been very meaningful to Sean Baker throughout his career.

He has repeatedly and consistently made really interesting smart movies about sex worker characters,

Starlet, Tangerine, Red Rocket.

And so he is not a filmmaker, many of us critics who have been championing his great

work for many years, who necessarily was inevitably in line for an Oscar win.

So it's really gratifying that he won, that a movie

is strong as a Nora, winning five Oscars. And in all those categories that you've been

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