‘Navalny,’ Portrait of Kremlin Critic, Wins Best Documentary Oscar

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny is escorted out of a police station in Khimki, outside Moscow on Jan. 18, 2021. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—The film “Navalny” about the poisoning that nearly killed Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, and his detention upon his 2021 return to Moscow, won the Oscar for best feature documentary on Sunday.

Joining director Daniel Roher on stage, Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya said: “My husband is in prison just for telling the truth. My husband is in prison just for defending democracy. Alexei, I am dreaming of the day when you will be free and our country will be free.