‘Anora’s Sean Baker Ties Walt Disney’s Oscar Record For Most Individual Wins In One Year​on March 3, 2025 at 4:06 am

Sean Baker had a great night at the Oscars, one so good that he has tied one of Walt Disney’s Oscar records.

The Anora director picked up four Oscars, matching Disney’s record from 1954, for most individual wins in one year.

Baker won Best Picture, Best Director, Original Screenplay and Film Editing for his tale of sex workers and Russian oligarchs in Brighton Beach.

This matches Disney’s record of four awards at the Oscars in 1954.

However, Baker won all of his Oscars for one film, while Walt Disney won them for four different movies. Disney’s The Living Desert won Best Documentary Feature, The Alaskan Eskimo won for Best Documentary – Short Subject, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom won for Best Short Subject – Cartoon and Bear Country won for Best Short Subject – Two-Reel.

It’s rare but not unheard of for a director to edit his own film, and given Baker’s work in the independent film world, also produces his own movies.

Parasite director Bong Joon Ho has previously been pictured with four Oscars but while he personally won for Best Picture, Best Director and Original Screenplay, the award for Best International Feature goes to the country, in this case South Korea.