‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ wins best documentary feature Oscar – Brandon Sun

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ wins best documentary feature Oscar By: Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press Posted: 8:22 PM CDT Sunday, Mar. 15, 2026 Advertisement Advertise with us Tweet Share Print Email Read Later LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” has won the Oscar for best documentary feature. Read this article for free: Email Address: Password: I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement. or Already have an account? Log in here » We need your support!Local journalism needs your support! As we navigate through unprecedented times, our journalists are working harder than ever to bring you the latest local updates to keep you safe and informed. Now, more than ever, we need your support. Starting at $15.99 plus taxes every four weeks you can access your Brandon Sun online and full access to all content as it appears on our website. Subscribe Now or call circulation directly at (204) 727-0527. Your pledge helps to ensure we provide the news that matters most to your community! To continue reading, please subscribe: Add Brandon Sun access to your Free Press subscription for only an additional $1 for the first 4 weeks* Enjoy unlimited reading on brandonsun.com Read the Brandon Sun E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper Start now No thanks *Your next subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $20.00 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $24.00 plus GST every four weeks. LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” has won the Oscar for best documentary feature. Read unlimited articles for free today: Email Address: Password: I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement. or Already have an account? Log in here » LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” has won the Oscar for best documentary feature. The film’s central figure and co-director, Pavel Talankin, is a teacher and activities director in a small-town school in Russia who captures Vladimir Putin’s propaganda and patriotism program for the nation’s youth after its invasion of Ukraine. Talankin smuggled the footage he’d shot out of the country and collaborated on the documentary with American director David Borenstein. The war in Ukraine has loomed large in Oscar documentary categories since it began. The Associated Press documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” won best documentary feature in 2024. Last year, “Porcelain War,” about artists in the conflict, was a nominee. And this year’s documentary short nominees included “Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud,” about an American journalist killed in the early weeks of the war. “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” has a lighter tone than the others, and is almost comical at times, with Talankin at moments resembling his fellow Oscar winner Michael Moore. The film won the British Academy Film Award during the Oscar run-up. But the win was still something of an upset over “The Perfect Neighbor” — director Geeta Gandbhir’s Netflix film built almost entirely from police body camera footage — which most media prognosticators picked as the winner. Other major precursor awards including the Directors Guild and Producers Guild documentary awards went to films that weren’t even nominated for the Oscar, adding cloudiness to a category that’s annually hard to predict. The other competition in the category came from “The Alabama Solution,” “Cutting Through Rocks” and “Come See Me in the Good Light.” Advertisement Advertise With Us Tweet Share Print Email Read Later Report Error Submit a Tip