Fresh from an incredible five wins at last night’s Academy Awards ceremony, Best Picture winner Anora has now been announced for a Criterion Collection release in the UK. Sean Baker’s critically-acclaimed hit will release on 4K UHD and Blu-ray on May 5, 2025.
Contemporary cinema’s foremost chronicler of American dreamers and schemers hustling on the margins of capitalist promise, Sean Baker, reaches new heights of mastery with this audacious anti–Cinderella story—a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching heart. The film has now walked away with the Best Actress BAFTA along with Academy Awards® including Best Actress for Mikey Madison, and a record-breaking four awards for director Sean Baker, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. The film was also winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
In an electric, star-is-born performance, Mikey Madison soars as Anora, an enterprising, ferociously foulmouthed Brooklyn erotic dancer and sex worker whose Prince Not-So-Charming comes along in the form of a Russian oligarch’s wild-child son (Mark Eydelshteyn). This is the beginning of a fractured fairy tale—also featuring standout performances from Karren Karagulian, Yura Borisov, and Vache Tovmasyan—that turns the cruel realities of class inside out.
Bonus features on the Criterion release include:
- New 4K digital master, supervised by director Sean Baker and producer Alex Coco, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- [UHD ONLY] One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray™ with the film and special features
- Two audio commentaries: one featuring Baker, Coco, producer Samantha Quan, and cinematographer Drew Daniels, and the other featuring Baker and actors Yura Borisov, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Mikey Madison, and Vache Tovmasyan
- New making-of documentary
- New interviews with Baker and Madison
- Cannes Film Festival press conference
- Q&A with Madison and actor-stripper Lindsey Normington
- Deleted scenes
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
- PLUS: Essays by film critic Dennis Lim and author Kier-La Janisse
- New cover by Bianca Parkes and GrandSon, with photography by Max Abadian
Spirit Entertainment releases the Criterion Collection release of ANORA on 5th May 2025. Available to buy on 4K UHD from Amazon, HMV, Rarewaves and Zavvi and on Blu-ray from Amazon, HMV, Rarewaves and Zavvi.
