Russian Films Won’t Compete for Oscars 2023: War Stains Cinema

Being one of the most famous and acclaimed film awards in the world, it begins to be stained for a few years by controversy and controversy, despite any production would like to take the precious gold statuette of the Oscars ceremony. Not everything is fame, success, talent and good cinema at the Hollywood Academy Awards, there are those who prefer to stay outside, like Russia.

Recently the Russian Film Academyconfirmed through a statement that he will not nominate any of his films to be presented at the 2023 Oscars awarded by the hollywood academy, in the United States. The reasons are broad enough and would be permeated with political interests between the two countries.

“The board of the Russian Film Academy has decided not to nominate any Russian films for the Hollywood Academy Awards in 2022,” a statement read.

Pavel Chukharai, in charge of selecting and sending Russian films to the aforementioned awards, and head of the committee, stressed that this decision was made behind his back, which is why he resigned. However, one of the best-known Russian directors in this country, Nikita Mijalkov, who acts as the defender of the president, Vladimir Putin, pointed out that this year it would be useless to participate in the competition for the golden statuette.

“Burnt by the Sun” was the first post-Soviet film to win an Oscar.

The determination, announced in the last days of September 2022, was already an expected announcement both in Los Angeles and Moscow, given the situation in the United States and Russia address the ongoing war against Ukraine and the differences between the American and Russian governments.

While this would be the reason why we won’t see any Russian feature films competing for the Oscars in 2023, it’s no surprise that the Academy has never been inclined towards them. ‘Burned by the sun‘was the first post-Soviet film to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994, after the dissolution of the USSR bloc.