LOS ANGELES — Daniel Roher just knocked Russian President Vladimir Putin off his high horse, dedicating his Oscar to political prisoners around the world.
On Sunday night, after winning the Oscar for documentary for “Navalny,” the director used his acceptance speech to blast Putin: “And there’s one person who couldn’t be here with us here tonight ... Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition, remains in solitary confinement for what he calls, ‘Vladimir Putin’s unjust war of aggression in Ukraine.’
“Alexei, the world has not forgotten your vital message to us all. We cannot, we must not be afraid to oppose dictators and authoritarianism. Wherever it rears its head,” Roher said at this year’s 95th Academy Awards, which Jimmy Kimmel hosted live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
