The chairman of Russia's Oscars nomination commission has resigned, a state-run news outlet reported on Tuesday, after the country decided not to submit a film to the Academy Awards for 2022.
In a scathing letter partially published by TASS news agency, Pavel Chukhrai, whose film "The Thief" was nominated for an Oscar in 1997, wrote that the country's Film Academy had unilaterally decided not to a nominate a film without consulting him.
Slamming the decision as "illegal", Chukhrai said he was standing down. Another director from the commission also resigned in protest, he said.
