Tag: Navalny
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2024 Oscars: Best Documentary Feature Predictions
Nominations voting is from January 11-16, 2024, with official Oscar nominations announced January 23, 2024. Final voting is February 22-27, 2024. And finally, the 96th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 10 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt. We update predictions through awards season, so keep checking…
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Alexei Navalny, Subject of Oscar-Winning Doc ‘Navalny,’ Sentenced to an Additional 19 Years in Russian Prison
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose attempted assassination was captured in the Oscar-winning documentary “Navalny,” has received a sentence for an additional 19 years in prison.The updated prison term is due to charges of “extremism,” per Russian media (via Deadline). Navalny is currently serving a nine-year term after accusing Russian president Vladimir Putin of corruption.…
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Documentary Nominees ‘Navalny,’ ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ and More Send Powerful Messages About the State of the World
After narrowing down 144 eligible documentary features to a remarkably strong shortlist of 15 docs, the Academy’s nonfiction branch whittled down that batch to five nominees: “All That Breathes,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Fire of Love,” “A House Made of Splinters,” and “Navalny.”It’s a quintuplet of powerful films from five formidable helmers. It’s…
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The Sundance 2023 Oscar Contenders: Jonathan Majors, ‘Past Lives,’ and Lots of Docs
Most Oscar documentary nominees launch at Sundance. There are exceptions, like winners “Citizenfour,” “Free Solo,” and “My Octopus Teacher,” but it remains the festival of choice for non-fiction films.A Sundance award doesn’t hurt, either: The 2022 documentary Oscar winner, Questlove’s “Summer of Soul,” began its journey as a 2021 Sundance double winner with an Audience…
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‘Navalny’ Director Says Putin’s ‘Rein on Power Has Never Been Shakier’ and Russia Is a ‘Failed State’
Daniel Roher knew little about the Russian political landscape when he started interviewing Alexei Navalny for a documentary in 2020. However, after completing work on the end result — aptly titled “Navalny” — and watching Russia invade Ukraine as the now-imprisoned Navalny predicted, Roher said he was certain about one aspect of the country’s government.“They’re…
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‘All I could do was film’: the making of a shocking movie on Alexei Navalny
In the eye-opening documentary Navalny, film-maker Daniel Roher was given unprecedented access to a Russian politician surviving an assassination attempt and a prison sentenceIn an interview broadcast last weekend, Jake Tapper of CNN put it to Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he might not survive the war with Russia and asked how he would want to be…
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Dogwoof scores major theatrical deals on buzzy documentary ‘Navalny’ (exclusive)
Film was a hot title at Cph:dox last week.UK-based Dogwoof has signed key theatrical deals including Germany, Italy and Australia-New Zealand for Daniel Roher’s documentary Navalny.Following its international premiere at Cph:dox last month, the festival will release the film in Denmark on April 12, replicating the same one-day nationwide screening event taking place in the…
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Natasa Urban’s ‘The Eclipse’ Wins Top Award at Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Festival
“The Eclipse” by Nataša Urban has picked up the top Dox:Award at Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival.It was awarded at a ceremony in the Danish capital, which opened with a homage to Ukraine – where fest organizers announced they would be screening Daniel Roher’s “Navalny” in theaters across the nation immediately after the festival to…