BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — The vibrant Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brighton Beach and Coney Island are basking in the glow of Oscar success as “Anora,” a film shot in their streets, swept the 97th Academy ...

Brooklyn took center stage at the 2025 Academy Awards on Sunday night as “Anora,” which was based and filmed in southern Brooklyn, won five Oscars — including Best Picture. The dramedy tells the story ...

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CONEY ISLAND — The team who created “Anora” celebrated in Hollywood as the film took home five Oscars Sunday, March 2, but Coney Island’s Williams Candy owners and employees held a celebration of ...

Transfer to the Q for a few more stops and you're in Coney Island, Brighton Beach's carnivalesque cousin with a 100-year-old wooden roller coaster and colorful boardwalk that forms the people's ...

Billy O’Brien is not an actor, but made his on-screen debut in the Brooklyn-based film “Anora,” which won Best Picture at the Oscars Sunday night. “They asked me if I would like to be in the movie, ...

BOROUGHWIDE — THE OSCAR-WINNING indie film “Anora” has brought new attention to Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, as well as Coney Island, boosting local businesses featured in the film. The Sean ...

After more than eight decades in business, a Coney Island candy store is celebrating a sweet moment in the spotlight. Williams Candy is getting some well-deserved recognition after being featured in a ...

“I needed to immerse myself in everything that is her – in her physicality, in her job, the environment, the accent, the Russian.” Mikey Madison on the learning curve of become Ani, the central ...

Anora, nicknamed Ani, lives under the rumbling elevated train that snakes into Brighton Beach, which since the mid-1970s has been a haven to immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus. It's a ...