Anora is a American comedy-drama film produced, written, directed, and edited by Sean Baker. Anora premiered on May 21, , at the 77th Cannes Film Festival , and was released theatrically on October 18 by Neon. The film received several accolades. It made history at the 30th Critics' Choice Awards , becoming the first film to only win Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture and none of its other six nominations at the ceremony.
Her boss introduces her to Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov, the year-old son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, Nikolai Zakharov. Vanya is in the United States to study, but prefers to party and play video games in his family's Brooklyn mansion.
Vanya and his entourage fly to Las Vegas, where Vanya asks Ani to marry him so that he can obtain a green card instead of returning to Russia to work for his father. Although Ani is skeptical, Vanya insists his love is genuine, and they elope to a Vegas wedding chapel. Ani quits her job and moves into Vanya's mansion. When news of the wedding spreads to Russia, Vanya's mother, Galina, orders his Armenian godfather, Toros, to find the couple and arrange an annulment while she and her husband fly to the US.
Toros sends his henchmen, Garnik and Igor, to the house. They inform Vanya that his parents will take him back to Russia, and enrage Ani by calling her a prostitute. Vanya flees and Ani fights Garnik and Igor, injuring them and destroying furniture, but they tie her up. Ani insists that she and Vanya are in love, but agrees to help Toros find him. Ani catches him drunk with a stripper at her former workplace.
Vanya is too intoxicated to listen, and the group is forced to wait outside the courthouse overnight. The next day, the annulment is thrown out of court because Ani and Vanya were wed in Nevada. Vanya concedes to his parents and coldly tells Ani that their marriage is impossible while Galina orders everyone on the plane to Las Vegas. Ani, having not signed a prenuptial agreement , threatens to force Vanya through divorce proceedings, but Galina threatens to destroy her life if she does.
