S S Rajamouli Is Moved By Anora Director Sean Baker’s Oscar 2025 Speech: Let Cinema Thrive In Coming Years

S S Rajamouli reacts to Sean Baker’s Oscar 2025 speech

Rajamouli’s tweet learn, “Congratulations to all of the #Oscars2025 winners! An enormous shoutout to Sean Baker for making historical past as the primary filmmaker to win 4 #Oscars in a single evening! Really moved by the speech about saving cinemas on the Oscars. Let cinema proceed to thrive within the coming years.”

In one other tweet, he wrote, “A heartfelt salute to certainly one of my favorites, Walter Salles, for bringing Brazil its first-ever Academy Award with Ainda Estou Aqui. #ImStillHere! And a particular nod to the Fernanda Torres, whose highly effective efficiency fueled your complete #Oscars marketing campaign. Parabéns a toda a nação brasileira por essa conquista tão esperada!”

Sean Baker wrote, produced, directed, and edited Anora, an unbiased movie impressed by the lives of intercourse staff. On the Oscars 2025, he took house awards for Greatest Director, Greatest Unique Screenplay, Greatest Enhancing and Greatest Image. The early predictions have been confirmed proper.

Sean Baker’s Oscar 2025 speech

In his acceptance speech whereas receiving the Greatest Director award, Sean’s ‘battle cry’ was, “We’re all right here tonight and watching this broadcast as a result of we love films. The place did we fall in love with the flicks? On the movie show. Watching a movie within the theater with an viewers is an expertise. We are able to snigger collectively, cry collectively, and, in a time wherein the world can really feel very divided, that is extra essential than ever. It’s a communal expertise you don’t get at house. And proper now, the theater-going expertise is below menace.”

He added, “Film theaters, particularly independently-owned theaters are struggling. In the course of the pandemic, we misplaced 1,000 screens within the U.S. And we proceed to lose them usually. If we don’t reverse this pattern, we’ll be shedding a significant a part of our tradition. That is my battle cry.”

Baker defeated Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, James Mangold for A Full Unknown, Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance within the Greatest Director class.