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If his previous work implies a stacked deck, it stays vague about who stacked it. Anora just tells us: It was the ultrarich.

Sean Baker's “Anora” is by wide consensus one of the year’s best films and a best picture contender at the Oscars.

Throughout his career, Sean Baker has focused his lens on characters often left out of the mainstream, providing intimate looks at the lives of those marginalized or considered outsiders. Sex workers are some of his main subjects,

Sean Baker is scrappy. For years, the writer-director has been making independent films about marginalized groups, from undocumented immigrants to sex workers. He casts his own movies, working with friends and talent he finds on social media.

NPR's Eric Westervelt talks to Sean Baker. The director of "The Florida Project" has a new movie about an exotic dancer's unlikely relationship with the son of a Russian oligarch. It's called "Anora."

Sean Baker has learned the perks of Oscar buzz, but the filmmaker says that's not what keeps him motivated. When his newest film “Anora” picked up the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year,