Backstage at the Academy Awards, the filmmaker praised the Academy for celebrating independent film even as they compete with movies with budgets "literally almost 100 times" of their film.
Baker wrote and directed the story of a Brooklyn sex worker, which was nominated for six Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards.
Twenty-two years after winning best actor for ''The Pianist,'' Adrien Brody won the same Oscar again for his performance as another Holocaust survivor in Brady Corbet's ''The Brutalist," at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday.