<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>339546</docID> <postdate>2025-03-03 15:17:34</postdate> <headline>Anora wins best picture Oscar</headline> <body><p><img class=" wp-image-339547" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250303119785340160-original-1-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="1079" height="717" /></p> <caption>Mikey Madison has won best actress in Anora which also won the Academy Award for best picture. (AP PHOTO)</caption> <p class="wire-column__preview__author"><span class="kicker-line">Los Angeles</span></p> <p><strong>Anora, the story of a sex worker who gets a chance at a new life when she marries a wealthy client on a whim, has won the coveted best picture prize at the Academy Awards.</strong></p> <p>The movie's 25-year-old star, Mikey Madison, was named best actress. The film also won best director for Sean Baker.</p> <p>Adrien Brody claimed his second Academy Award, winning the best actor trophy for his role as a Jewish immigrant and architect who chases the American dream in The Brutalist.</p> <p>Zoe Saldana was named best supporting actress for her role as the fixer for a Mexican drug lord in the Spanish-language Netflix musical Emilia Perez.</p> <p>Kieran Culkin, who started acting as a child, received the best supporting actor award for playing one of two cousins who travel to Poland to study their family's roots in A Real Pain.</p> <p>He beat Australia's Guy Pearce, who was nominated for his performance in The Brutalist.</p> <p>"I have no idea how I got here," Culkin said on stage at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.</p> <p>Winners of the gold Oscar statuettes are chosen by the roughly 11,000 actors, producers, directors and film craftspeople who make up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.</p> </body>