The Oscar-winning film “Anora” may be fictitious — but the over-the-top mansion prominently featured in it certainly exists in real life. Priced at a staggering $30 million when it first hit the market more than a decade ago,

Baker’s four Oscars for “Anora” are validation of his sensitive portrayals of people on the margins who always seem to come up short.

Sean Baker has won best director at the Oscars for “Anora,” the story of a Brooklyn exotic dancer who marries the impetuous son of a Russian oligarch.