News Summary

• "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" won the Oscar for best documentary feature.
• Co-director Pavel Talankin was a teacher and activities director in a small-town school in Russia.
• He smuggled his hard drives out of the country to collaborate with American director David Borenstein.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment, saying he hasn't seen the documentary..
• The Oscar for documentary short went to “All the Empty Rooms,’ which chronicles broadcast journalist Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp's attempts to memorialize the bedrooms of children killed in mass shootings.