The 'Anora' director follows pro-Israel accounts on Instagram. In today's social media discourse, that's enough to cancel him.
From ‘Tangerine’ to ‘Anora,’ the Oscar-winning director has used the elaborate Aguafina Script for his film credits as a way to subvert expectations.
Coppola took home three prizes in 1974 for The Godfather: Part II but failed to capitalize on his two additional nominations for The Conversation. Composer Alan Menken also won three Oscars for Beauty and the Beast in 1993 but came up short on the other two.
Baker’s four Oscars for “Anora” are validation of his sensitive portrayals of people on the margins who always seem to come up short.