{"id":69068,"date":"2026-03-16T14:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69068"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:46:00","slug":"oscar-winning-documentary-director-mr-nobody-against-putin-notes-grim-parallels-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69068","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Winning Documentary Director (Mr. Nobody Against Putin) Notes Grim Parallels to America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday night’s Academy Awards show was mostly focused on recognizing cinematic achievement and the people who make make it all possible. But there were a few moments that captured some of the zeitgeist that is circulating among the American viewers of the program.<\/p>\n

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First of all, it should be noted that the evening was hosted by Conan O’Brien. This likely made it a must watch for Donald Trump, who can’t resist hate-watching comedians who so brilliantly ridicule him. O’Brien included a comment in his opening monologue that mocked Trump’s egomaniacal penchant for naming things after himself, saying that “We are coming to you live from the ‘Has a Small Penis Theater.’ Let\u2019s see him put his name in front of that.”<\/em> Which is a great beginning for this program that followed the Writer’s Guild ceremony last week, where another comedian that Trump hates, Stephen Colbert, received a special award.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Stephen Colbert Delivers a Hilarious Acceptance\/Farewell Speech at Writers Guild Award Ceremony<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Notable among the night’s honorees was the winner for Documentary Feature. And no, it wasn’t for the dreadful “Melania”<\/em> flop<\/a><\/strong>. The winner was “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,”<\/em> a documentary about a Russian educator who courageously defied Vladimir Putin’s tyrannical regime. The director, David Borenstein, gave one of the night’s most heartfelt and moving acceptance speeches, saying that…<\/p>\n

“Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country. And what we saw when working with this footage, it\u2019s that you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity.<\/p>\n

“When we act complicit, when 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 can produce it and consume, we all face a moral choice. But luckily, even a \u2018nobody\u2019 is more powerful than you think.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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David Borenstein, the director of the Oscar winning documentary "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" delivers a stirring acceptance speech about "how you lose your country" that every American must pay attention to.<\/p>\n

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-03-16T11:32:20.092Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n