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![Baker, Sean](/images/Sean Baker_2024_Cannes.jpg) Baker, Sean |
Birth name
Sean S. Baker
Date of birth
26 February 1971, Summit, New Jersey, U.S.
Sean Baker (February 26, 1971, Summit, New Jersey, U.S.)
Sean Baker (born February 26, 1971) is an American film director, cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and film editor.
He is best known for the independent feature films Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017), Red Rocket (2021), and Anora (2024).
He is also known for creating the Fox/IFC puppet sitcom Greg the Bunny (2002–2006) and its spin-offs.
Baker has received several film critics awards, a Filmmaker on the Edge Award and nominations for six Independent Spirit Awards, winning one in 2012.
His latest film, Anora, won the Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in 2024.
Baker has established a reputation for portraying outcasts and characters from underrepresented and marginalized subcultures, frequently undocumented immigrants and sex workers, in decidedly humane and compassionate scenarios. He claims to have been directly inspired by exploitation films but he has been described as the archetype of a "trustworthy male director" in a post Me Too era.
His films have stirred and encouraged a debate about sexual morality. Baker stated at a Cannes press conferences in 2024 that sex work should be "decriminalized and not in any way regulated, because it’s a sex worker’s body and it’s up to them to decide how they will use it in their livelihood."
Baker's influences include Ken Loach, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Mike Leigh, Steven Spielberg, Éric Rohmer, John Cassavetes, and Hal Ashby, among others.
Filmography
Director
2000 Four Letter Words 2004 Take Out 2008 Prince of Broadway 2012 Starlet 2015 Tangerine 2017 The Florida Project 2021 Red Rocket 2023 The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (producer) 2024 Anora
Selected filmography of
Baker, Sean
2024
Anora (2024)
2021
Red Rocket (2021)
2017
The Florida Project (2017)
2015
Tangerine (2015)
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