{"id":658974,"date":"2026-03-16T05:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/658974\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:08:14","slug":"mr-nobody-against-putin-wins-oscar-for-best-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/658974\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mr. Nobody Against Putin\u2019 wins Oscar for best documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 \u201cMr. Nobody Against Putin,\u201d<\/a> which takes on the Russian leader\u2019s propaganda and patriotism program for the nation\u2019s youth after the invasion of Ukraine,<\/a> won the Oscar for best documentary feature Sunday. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now,\u201d the film\u2019s protagonist and co-director Pavel Talankin said in Russian from the stage through a translator. <\/p>\n

Talankin was a teacher and activities director in a small-town school in Russia who captured on video his students\u2019 lessons, chants and songs promoting the war in Ukraine. He smuggled his hard drives out of the country to collaborate with American director David Borenstein, who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. <\/p>\n

The two men gave the night some of its most overtly political moments during their speeches. Talankin said backstage that his students helped him write his. Borenstein spoke broadly about nations tipping into totalitarianism, while clearly emphasizing similarities between his country and Talankin\u2019s. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Mr. Nobody Against Putin\u2019 is about how you lose your country,\u201d Borenstein said. \u201cYou lose it through countless small little acts of complicity.\u201d <\/p>\n

Cheers in the auditorium grew as Borenstein said you lose a country when \u201cwe don\u2019t say anything\u201d when governments kill people in the streets and oligarchs seek to consolidate control over media outlets. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe all face a moral choice, but luckily even a nobody is more powerful than you think,\u201d Borenstein said. <\/p>\n

The war in Ukraine has loomed large in Oscar documentary categories since its beginning in 2022. The Associated Press\u2019 documentary \u201c20 Days in Mariupol\u201d won best documentary feature in 2024.<\/a> This year\u2019s documentary short nominees included \u201cArmed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud,\u201d about an American journalist killed<\/a> in the war. <\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Nobody Against Putin,\u201d distributed by Apple TV, premiered at last year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival. Its tone is light and almost mischievously comical at times, with Talankin sometimes resembling his fellow documentary Oscar winner Michael Moore<\/a>. It was the first Oscar for both Borenstein and Talankin. <\/p>\n

The film won the British Academy Film Award during the Oscar run-up. But the Oscar win was still something of an upset over \u201cThe Perfect Neighbor\u201d<\/a> \u2014 director Geeta Gandbhir\u2019s Netflix film built almost entirely from police body camera footage \u2014 which most media prognosticators picked as the winner. <\/p>\n

The other competition in the category came from \u201cThe Alabama Solution,\u201d<\/a> \u201cCutting Through Rocks\u201d and \u201cCome See Me in the Good Light.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n

The Oscar for documentary short went to \u201cAll the Empty Rooms,\u201d which chronicles broadcast journalist Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp\u2019s attempts to memorialize the bedrooms of children killed in mass shootings.<\/p>\n

The winners, director Joshua Seftel and producer Conall Jones, turned their brief acceptance time over to the mother of Jacklyn Cazares, memorialized by the film. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughter Jackie was 9 years old when she was killed in Uvalde<\/a>. Since that day, her bedroom has been frozen in time,\u201d Gloria Cazares said from the stage. \u201cWe believe that if the world could see their empty bedrooms, we\u2019d see a different America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 \u201cMr. Nobody Against Putin,\u201d which takes on the Russian leader\u2019s propaganda and patriotism program…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":658975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[276999,279006,276,279003,434,171,57,279004,279005,230626,230627,205991,53,279002,3657,279007,61,273,67,132,68,274,107],"class_list":["post-658974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-academy-awards-oscars","tag-brent-renaud","tag-california","tag-david-borenstein","tag-documentaries","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-gloria-cazares","tag-jacklyn-cazares","tag-joshua-seftel","tag-lou-bopp","tag-michael-moore","tag-movies","tag-pavel-talankin","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-steve-hartman","tag-u-s-news","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116237127674671448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}