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'Navalny' Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature 2023

'Navalny' Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature 2023

 

“Navalny,” a film that explores the plot to kill Russian anti-corruption campaigner and former presidential candidate, Alexey Navalny, has won the Oscar for best documentary feature at Sunday's Academy Awards.

 

Detailing the 2020 assassination attempt of Russian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexei Navalny, in which he was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent.

 

 

 

Release date: April 11, 2022 (USA)

Director: Daniel Roher

Cinematography: Niki Waltl

Awards: Academy Award for Best Documentary