This Oscar Season's Great Underdog Story Is the Story of a Cat

Just as there are cat people and dog people, there are cat filmmakers and dog filmmakers. Sean Baker, who brought his pup Bunsen to Cannes along with his Palme d'Or–winning Anora, is a dog filmmaker. That's not to say one can't appreciate both, whether we're talking movies or pets. I myself am a cat person who currently has two dogs. But I think that on some level you are either drawn primarily to the sly, withholding spirit of cat movies or the energetic emotionality of dog movies, and nothing can alter that fundamental orientation.