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50 free Anora trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Anora trivia quiz covers Sean Baker's 2024 Palme d'Or and Best Picture winner. It follows Ani from the club in Manhattan to the mansion in Mill Basin: the $15,000 girlfriend week, the Las Vegas elopement, the fur coat and the ring, Toros, Garnik and Igor at the door, the night-long search through Brooklyn, the parents' plane, the annulment papers and the last scene in Igor's car. Behind the scenes it covers the wedding videos Baker once edited, casting Mikey Madison without an audition, the Russian she learned, the 37-day shoot on 35mm, the ten days spent on the home-invasion scene, the real oligarch's mansion found on Google, the Vampyros Lesbos scarf, and Neon's $18 million campaign. It ends at Cannes and the 97th Academy Awards, where Baker matched Walt Disney's record of four Oscars in a night and Anora became only the fourth film to win both the Palme d'Or and Best Picture. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who wrote, directed, produced and edited Anora?
Sean Baker
He edited it in Adobe Premiere Pro, and admitted to Josh Safdie he was high while doing it.
Q 02Who plays Anora 'Ani' Mikheeva?
Mikey Madison
Baker cast her without an audition after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Scream.
Q 03In which Brooklyn neighbourhood does Ani live?
Brighton Beach
It's a heavily Russian-American area; Baker and Madison moved to southern Brooklyn during pre-production.
Q 04Why is Ani introduced to Vanya in the first place?
He asked for a dancer fluent in Russian
Madison learned Russian for the part.
Q 05How much does Vanya offer Ani to be his girlfriend for a week?
$15,000
The week includes an extravagant trip to Las Vegas.
Q 06Who plays Vanya?
Mark Eydelshteyn
It was the young Russian actor's international breakthrough after The Land of Sasha.
Q 07Why does Vanya propose to Ani?
Marrying an American would let him stay in the US
He's just revealed he must return to Russia to work for his father.
Q 08Where do Ani and Vanya marry?
A Las Vegas wedding chapel
Nevada law later scuppers the New York annulment.
Q 09What does Vanya buy Ani after the wedding?
A large ring and a fur coat
Toros later confiscates the ring; Igor gives it back at the end.
Q 10Who is Toros?
Vanya's Armenian godfather
Galina orders him to find the couple and arrange an annulment.
Q 11Who plays Igor, the henchman?
Yura Borisov
The Russian actor earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
Q 12What does Vanya do when the henchmen arrive at the mansion?
Runs away
Ani is left to struggle violently with Garnik and Igor.
Q 13How much does Toros offer Ani for the annulment?
$10,000
He also tells her the mansion and money belong to Vanya's parents.
Q 14Where do they finally find Vanya?
Q 21What format was Anora shot on?
Kodak 35mm film, anamorphic
Cinematographer Drew Daniels used vintage LOMO lenses on it.
Q 22How did Baker find the Zakharov house?
Googling for the biggest and best mansion in Brighton Beach
The Mill Basin house had once belonged to a real oligarch, Vasily Anisimov.
Q 23Which 1970s New York films inspired the cinematography?
The French Connection and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
At Ani's former strip club
He's being entertained by a rival dancer called Diamond.
Q 15Why is the annulment dismissed at the New York courthouse?
The marriage took place in Nevada
So Galina orders everyone onto a plane to Las Vegas.
Q 16What does Ani tell Galina before leaving?
That Vanya hates her and married to spite her
Galina had threatened her family with financial ruin.
Q 17What does Igor return to Ani in the car at the end?
Her wedding ring
She initiates sex, then breaks down sobbing in his arms when he tries to kiss her.
Q 18What inspired Baker's story?
A friend's tale of a Russian-American newlywed kidnapped for collateral
He'd also edited wedding videos for Russian-Americans in 2000 and 2001.
Q 19Which memoirist did Baker hire as a creative consultant?
Andrea Werhun, author of Modern Whore
He also hired sex workers as consultants and cast members.
Q 20How many days did the film shoot?
37
The 25-minute home invasion scene alone took 10 days.
Cinematographer Drew Daniels used Atlas Orion lenses for low light.
Q 24Which cult 1970 film inspired Ani's red scarf?
Vampyros Lesbos
The credits give special thanks to Jesús Franco and Soledad Miranda.
Q 25Which two pop songs feature prominently on the soundtrack?
Take That's 'Greatest Day' and t.A.T.u.'s 'All the Things She Said'
The Take That track is a Robin Schulz rework.
Q 26Instead of an intimacy coordinator, who demonstrated positions on set?
Baker and his wife, producer Samantha Quan
Madison said she was offered a coordinator but felt more comfortable this way.
Q 27Which festival gave Anora its premiere and top prize?
Cannes
It got a 10-minute standing ovation and the Palme d'Or.
Q 28Who was the festival jury president who praised the film's Lubitsch and Hawks echoes?
Greta Gerwig
She said the jury 'collectively felt transported'.
Q 29Anora was the first American-produced Palme d'Or winner since which film?
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick's 2011 film was the last.
Q 30Which US distributor released Anora, its fifth straight Palme d'Or winner?
Neon
Focus Features handled most other territories.