{"id":331652,"date":"2026-03-16T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331652\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:38:08","slug":"mr-nobody-against-putin-wins-the-best-documentary-oscar-oscars-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331652\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Nobody Against Putin wins the best documentary Oscar | Oscars 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr Nobody Against Putin<\/a>, a primary school teacher\u2019s record of the indoctrination of his pupils to support Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, has won the Oscar for best documentary.<\/p>\n

Pavel Talankin, who is now in exile in Europe, picked up the award alongside the film\u2019s US co-director, David Borenstein. It beat favourite The Perfect Neighbor<\/a> to take the prize, along with other contenders The Alabama Solution<\/a>, Come See Me in the Good Light<\/a> and Cutting Through Rocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Borenstein began by thanking his family and friends, the Academy and their fellow nominees. \u201cMr Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd what we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless, small, little acts of complicity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don\u2019t say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we could produce it and consume it \u2013 we all face a moral choice. But luckily, even a nobody is more powerful than you think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talankin meanwhile issued a plea on behalf of the countries where \u201cinstead of shooting stars \u2026 they have shooting bombs and shooting drones.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concluded: \u201cIn the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the third time this decade that a film critical of the Russian government has won the prize, following Navalny in 2023<\/a> and 20 Days in Mariupol in 2024. The Oscar last year was won by No Other Land<\/a>, an Israeli-Palestinian co-production about the destruction of a Palestinian community on the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Nobody Against Putin, a primary school teacher\u2019s record of the indoctrination of his pupils to support Russia\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-331652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}