2024-03-11 12:36 United News Network 24 Hours Around the Corner The Oscar-winning documentary “Ma Libo’s 20 Days” tells the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from a first-person perspective. …
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Ukrainian journalist’s battlefield diary: “20 Days in Ma Libo” won the Oscar for Best Documentary
“Movies form memories, and memories form history. Glory goes to Ukraine.” The 96th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 11, Taiwan time. The Best Documentary Award was won by the “Associated Press” and the American public broadcaster “PBS” The news documentary produced – “20 Days in Mariupol” (tentative translation) won; the film captured the experience of a group of international journalists in danger after Russia invaded Ukraine and besieged the southern city of Mariupol in 2022. Director Mstyslav Chernov was a Ukrainian journalist, photographer, and a member of the “Associated Press” team at the time. When delivering his acceptance speech, he reminded that Ukraine’s frontline cities continued to be attacked and fell, and what happened in Everything about Ma Libo symbolizes the painful struggle of Ukrainians in the war, but it also symbolizes the confidence to continue to fight.
For this year’s Oscar for Best Documentary, before the awards were presented, the American entertainment magazine “Variety” predicted that “Ma Libo’s 20 Days” would be the favorite to win, pointing out that this documentary was “too important to be ignored”; previously, “Ma Libo” “20 Days” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2023 and won the Audience Award in the documentary category. In addition, it also won awards including the British Academy Film Award for Best Documentary, the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Director Achievement Award for Documentary Films, and other awards.
“Ma Libo’s 20 Days” won the 2024 Oscar for Best Documentary. The director and team gave a speech. Picture/Reuters…
When director Chernov received the award at the Oscars ceremony, he said that the award for “20 Days of Maribo” was a milestone in the development of Ukrainian films – the film was the first Ukrainian film shot by a Ukrainian director to win an Oscar. movie – he was extremely honored by it, but if he had the choice, he wished he had never made this documentary, Chernoff said:
“I wish I had never made this movie… I wish in exchange for Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities, I wish I could exchange all my honor for Russia not killing tens of thousands of my compatriots. “
Later, Chernov said in his acceptance speech: “Movies form memories, and memories form history. Thank you to Ukraine, glory to Ukraine.”
When he won the British Academy Film Award in February, Chernov also thanked the “Frontline” program team of “The Associated Press” and “PBS” at the award ceremony, and reminded everyone in a brief speech that Ukraine’s Frontline Still under attack, such as Avdiivka, which fell in mid-February; he pointed out that what happened in Maribo symbolized everything that Ukraine encountered during the war and Ukraine’s painful struggle, but it also symbolized the confidence to persist in the war. , he thanked Oscar for allowing the voice from Ukraine to be heard by more people around the world, and concluded with “Let’s just keep fighting.”
“20 Days in Ma Libo” is also the first film to win an Oscar in the 178-year history of “Associated Press”. The shooting background is that “Associated Press” reporters continued to record the atrocities of Russian aggression after Russia besieged Ma Libo in 2022. At that time, only the “Associated Press” team from the international media remained in Malibo. They recorded the dying children, mass graves, attacks and explosions on the obstetrics and gynecology hospital, and other war scenes that shocked the world.
Chernov is also a member of the “Associated Press” reporter team. He and his colleague Vasylysa Stepanenko arrived in Malibo one hour before the full-scale Russian invasion on February 24. “20 Days in Malibo” was published by It was edited from 30 hours of footage shot before they left Ma Libo. The 2023 Pulitzer Prize will also award the Public Service Award to the Associated Press for its work in Ma Libo, which was besieged by Russian troops.
This year’s Oscars still pay close attention to the war between Ukraine and Russia. At the previous 95th Academy Awards ceremony, the Best Documentary Award went to “The Navalny Affair”, which filmed Russian President Putin’s “number one political enemy” Navalny (Alexey Navalny). (Navalny) won; “Navalny Casebook” filmed the process of Navalny trying to find out the culprit behind the scenes after he was poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok in 2020.
Navalny was suddenly announced dead by Russian official media on February 16, 2024. His body was detained by Russian officials. Officials informed his family that a “chemical analysis” of Navalny’s cause of death would be conducted and the investigation was extended “indefinitely.” The family members were extremely angry and dissatisfied. (Extended reading: “The mystery of Navalny’s death: Russia withholds remains, investigation into cause of death “unlimited””)
Other nominees for the Oscar for Best Documentary this year include “Bobi Wine: The People’s President,” a co-production between Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which tells the story of Ugandan pop singer Bobi Wine’s challenge to long-ruling regime leader Musse. Yoweri Museveni, running for president; the Canadian documentary “To Kill a Tiger,” which captures a family’s fight for justice after their teenage daughter was raped in the Indian state of Jharkhand; France, Tunisia “Four Daughters”, a co-production between Indonesia, Germany and Saudi Arabia, about a Tunisian mother who hired a professional actress to accompany her two daughters to make amends after her two daughters disappeared; and the Chilean documentary “The Eternal Memory”, which was filmed in Chile The famous journalist and host Augusto Góngora’s relationship with his actress wife Paulina Urrutia after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
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