Distributor NEON has won Best Picture before with Parasite, shedding the narrative that a film not in the English language can’t win the Oscars’ top honor. Anora hearkens back to the glories of New Hollywood, a time where more risqué subject matter was widely embraced by the Academy voters as conduit for commentary on the times.

Palme d'Or winner 'Anora' became the Best Picture Oscar frontrunner after winning the top prizes at the PGA and DGA Awards.

After three back-to-back Best Picture (or equivalent) awards over the weekend, Sean Baker’s comedy about a Brighton Beach sex worker looks like it could rally this Oscar season.

Sean Baker's freewheeling fractured fairy tale took top honors from both the producing and directing guilds, restoring its front-runner status at the Oscars.

At the PGA Awards, "Anora" took the evening's top prize after it also won the top DGA prize for director Sean Baker just a few moments earlier.

So unusually both PGA and DGA, two ever-so-important guild awards ceremonies that can predict the Oscars somehow landed, for the first time I can recall, on the same night in two nearby hotels in Beverly Hills.