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At the 96th Academy Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles, Ukrainian director Mstislav Chernov’s film “20 Days in Mariupol” received an Oscar for Best Feature Documentary.
This is the first Oscar in history to be awarded to the authors of a Ukrainian film.
Previously, the film, which tells the story of the siege of Mariupol by Russian troops in 2022, also received a British BAFTA film award.
As a journalist for the Associated Press, Mstislav Chernov, along with photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, went to Mariupol on February 23, 2022, the day before the Russian invasion.
The one and a half hour documentary film by AP journalist Mstislav Chernov “20 days in Mariupol” is not only a chronicle of those events. It is also a very personal film about the work of war reporters and documenting history.
Last year, the Oscar for best documentary went to the film “Navalny” about the poisoning of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Then Yulia Navalnaya received the statuette.
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