Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1971
- Works
- 2
Top works
- The Florida Project
- The Florida project
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · Summit, New Jersey, USA
Sean Baker (born February 26, 1971) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing independent feature films about the lives of sex workers, including Take Out (2004), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017), Red Rocket (2021), and Anora (2024), the last of which won him the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, as well as Academy Awards for Best Picture,…
Known for
- Cannes Uncut — Self2023
- Têtàtête(s) — Self - Guest2023
- Reflecting on “Take Out” — Self2022
- Merry F*cking Christmas: The Making of Tangerine — Self2022
- Directors on Directors — Self2021
- Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes2020
- Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore — Self2019
- Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project — Self2018
- Marcians — Self2017
- Meet the Hustlers — Self2011
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 139,374
- Total plays
- 1,133,050
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Shaun Baker is a DJ from the north of England but has for over 20 years been based in Germany. He has been playing the worldwide club scene over 20 years. Together with his friend and partner Sebastian Wolter he also produces music. This musical partnership has over the past few years given the dance scene some great tracks to dance to, for example "Xplode 2" which hit the number 1 position in every German dance chart. Other singles are "Push" (also a dance chart & sales hit) and "Bakerman", a
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,127x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,639x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,944x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
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Key facts
- Born
- Sean S. Baker , ( 1971-02-26 ) February 26, 1971 (age 55) , Summit, New Jersey , U.S.
- Education
- New York University ( BFA )
- Occupations
- Filmmaker editor
- Years active
- 2000–present
- Spouse
- Samantha Quan
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 26 February 1971
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sean
- Family name
- Baker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Summit
- Occupation
- cinematographer
- Award
- Palme d'Or
- Image
- Sean Baker at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival 2 (cropped).jpg
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Sean Baker (born February 26, 1971) is an American filmmaker. He is a director, writer, editor, and producer of independent narrative feature films which are most often about the lives of marginalized people, especially immigrants and sex workers. He made his directorial film debut with Four Letter Words (2000) and co-created the television character Greg the Bunny. Baker has since directed seven feature films: Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017), Red Rocket (2021), and Anora (2024).
Baker has received several accolades throughout his career. For Anora, he won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and, alongside his wife Samantha Quan, he won the British Academy Film Award for Best Casting, before proceeding to win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing at the 97th Academy Awards. He is the first person to individually win four Oscars for the same film in a single ceremony.
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