Is Zelensky out of the Oscars? Ukraine speaks of “absurdity” and “hypocrisy”

a Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, commented on the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was unable to speak at the 95th Academy Awards, calling the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ decision an example of “hypocrisy”.

I think if Nothing New in the West wins the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film while President Zelensky – who fights and runs the country in Europe’s biggest war since World War II – is not allowed to speak, you can’t find a better example of the hypocrisy of top managers. Film industry executives and producers”.He began by noting in an interview with the German newspaper Bild.

Nothing New in the West by German director Eduard Berger is a new cinematic adaptation of the work of Erich Maria Remarque, which depicts the story of a young German soldier during the First World War. In total, she was nominated for nine categories.

About the Ukrainian minister “A ridiculous word is not enough to describe such hypocrisy.”.

It is noteworthy that the American magazine, Variety, submitted, on Thursday, that the Academy rejected the Ukrainian President’s request to interfere in the ceremony that will be held on Sunday. The same thing has already happened in 2022.

According to Variety, Zelensky’s team hired Hollywood agent Mike Simpson to court the Academy, but to no avail.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian president has been speaking at various cultural events and, in February, he made an intervention at the Berlin Film Festival, where a film about his leadership – “The Great Power” – was shown for the first time in turn.

Later this year, in January, he gave a speech at the Grammy Awards and the Golden Globes. However, as happened last year, the Academy refused the participation of the Ukrainian head of state.

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