The head of the Russian Oscar Committee Pavel Chukhray left office in protest

The director, who made the films "Driver for Faith" and "Thief", nominated for Oscar in the 1990s, stated in his letter that the decision of the Film Academy was "unilateral" was made unilaterally and "through the head of the Oscar Commission". And with the members of the committee and with him they did not consult themselves and did not even report such a decision.

"I want to inform you that in protest I take off my duties of the chairman and leave this organization," Chukhray wrote in his address, and said that the committee is left with him by director Nikolai Dostal ("Penalty", "Little Giant" great sex "). We will remind, the last film from the Russian Federation was one of the nominees for "Oscar" in 2014, it was "Leviathan" Andrei Zvyagintsev.

In 2022, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the opinions about whether Russian films should be sent to Oscar. Directors Alexei Teacher and Andriy Konchalovsky believed that the Russian Federation should put forward the film, "despite the political environment. " The head of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation Nikita Mikhalkov believed that there was no sense in this sense. Long-leafed Russian films, from which the nominee had to choose, had 122 paintings.

We will remind, when the invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine has just begun, Pavel Chukhray spoke against Echo of Moscow. "Today I am watching the war in Ukraine with shame and pain. In the morning in the news feed I read:" In the Kiev subway, where the people of Kiev hide from shelling, a child was born. "A photo of a baby was born in the subway. Born. But what world is it waiting for him? What do we do! He wrote. Chukhray has been a Malta citizen since 2016.