"Anora" also won best director for Sean Baker, best actress for Mikey Madison and trophies for original screenplay and editing.

Certain professions are always reduced to pastiches by Hollywood. I find it almost impossible, for example, to watch journalists on screen. Decades on, we’re still taking surreptitious swigs from liquor bottles stashed in the top drawers of our desks and heroically investigating news stories our editors have forbidden us to pursue.

Independent film "Anora" -- the tale of a sex worker whose marriage to the son of a Russian oligarch quickly unravels -- was the big winner at the Oscars on

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -"Anora," the story of a sex worker who gets a chance at a new life when she marries a wealthy client on a whim, won five Academy Awards on Sunday, including the coveted best picture Oscar.