Cinema for Peace Films at Oscars 2023
Click to watch the trailer for "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Edward Berger
Los Angeles - At the 95th Academy Awards Cinema for Peace honoree and chair Michelle Yeoh as well as "Everything Everywhere All at Once" won seven Oscars including Best Picture. Yeoh became the first woman identifying as Asian to win the Best Actress award. She won the Cinema for Peace award in 2012 together with Luc Besson for her portrayal of Aung San Suu Kyi in the film "The Lady" - and enabled the global farewell of Muhammad Ali by Sports for Peace at the London Olympics.
The winner of this year's Oscar for Best International Feature Film, "All Quiet on the Western Front" won the Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year 2023. Also nominated for Best International Feature Film this year was the Cinema for Peace winner “Argentina, 1985", which tells the story of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship being brought to justice by Luis Moreno Ocampo, who later became the first Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and introduced the Cinema for Peace Award for Justice in 2009.
“Navalny” by Daniel Roher, which was awarded the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature this year, also received the Cinema for Peace Dove for Justice 2022, and holds a special significance by the fact that Cinema for Peace evacuated Alexei Navalny from Siberia to Berlin after his poisoning by the FSB.
Other films associated with this year's Oscars include Brendan Fraser starrer "The Whale" which was a nominee for Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year 2023; "Women Talking", which was a nominee for Cinema for Peace Dove for Women's Empowerment 2023; Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio; The Elephant Whisperers; An Irish Goodbye; The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse; RRR; Top Gun: Maverick; Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; and Avatar: The Way of Water.
Oscar for Navalny. Pussy Riot’s Pyotr Verzilov and Nadya Tolokonnikova had called Cinema for Peace founder Jaka Bizilj on the morning of the murder attempt to evacuate Navalny from Siberia to Berlin.
Click to watch the trailer for "Everything Everywhere All At Once" by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Click to watch the trailer for "Navalny" by Daniel Roher