“Navalny”, Daniel Roher’s film dedicated to Russian opponent Alexei Navalny, won the Oscar for Best Documentary this morning, at the 95th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards in the United States.
Daniel Roher, accompanied by the team and wife of Alexei Navalny, Julia Navalnaya, upon receiving the Oscar, recalled the condition of the prisoner who opposes Putin and condemns the invasion of Ukraine, stating that “we should never be afraid of standing up to the dictators”. ” .
Julia Navalnaya said that her husband “is detained for defending democracy and dreaming of freedom” and the day Russia is free.
Roher dedicated the award to Navalny and “to all political prisoners” in the world.
The documentary follows the story of Alexei Navalny, when he was hospitalized in serious condition in August 2020, with suspicion of poisoning, during a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow.
The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, Siberia, due to a worsening state of health. Two days later, the Russian authorities authorized his transfer to Germany, where he was treated at the Charité university clinic in Berlin for 32 days for poisoning by nerve agents.
After spending time in Germany, he returned to Russia in January 2021, but was arrested upon arrival in Moscow. The lawyer and politician, whose name Putin avoids pronouncing, is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for alleged fraud.
Last Friday, the Council of Europe renewed its call on Russia to release Alexei Navalny and comply with the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights related to the case.
The other nominees for Best Documentary were Shaunak Sen’s “All That Breathes,” Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Carnage” about Nan Golding (winner of the Golden Lion at Venice last year), Sara Dosa. and “A House Made of Chips” by Simon Lereng Wilmont.
The Academy Award for Best Short Film went to “An Irish Goodbye” by Tom Berkeley and Ross White.
The German film “Nothing New West,” also nominated for Best International Film, won the Oscar for Best Cinematography.
The Oscar for Best Characterization went to “The Whale” and Best Costumes for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever After.”
The Oscars celebrate their 95th edition tonight at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, in a ceremony in which “Ice Merchants”, by Portuguese director João Gonzalez, is also nominated for Best Animated Short Film.
“Ice Merchants” is the first Portuguese film nominated for an Oscar in Hollywood.
This year, “All at the same time everywhere”, an independent production by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, leads the race, with 11 nominations, bringing together those for Best Picture and Direction, in addition to the acting categories.
Also nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture are “The Spirits of Inisherin” (Martin McDonagh), “The Fablemans” (Steven Spielberg), “Tár” (Todd Field), “All New West” (Edward Berger), “Top Gun : Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski), “Elvis” (Baz Luhrmann), “Avatar: The Waterway” (James Cameron), “The Woman’s Voice” (Sarah Polley) and “Triangle of Sadness” (Ruben Ostlund ).
Source: TSF
