BAFTAs 2023: India’s All That Breathes Loses Best Documentary Award to Daniel Roher’s Navalny
India’s climate change documentary All That Breathes on Sunday lost the best documentary award to Navalny at the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards. Directed by Daniel Roher, Navalny details the 2020 assassination attempt on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent. BAFTA Awards 2023: All Quiet on the Western Front Bagged 7 Awards Including Best Film at the 76th BAFTAs.
The other nominees in the Best Documentary Feature segment were All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love and A House Made of Splinters. All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen, was one of the main contenders for the documentary prize. The film is also nominated for an Academy Award.
BAFTA Award For Navalny
The documentary “Navalny” won a BAFTA award! Congratulations to everyone involved!
But at this very minute the protagonist of this film is in prison.
Free Alexey Navalny! pic.twitter.com/7EQhf1xLRx
— Кира Ярмыш (@Kira_Yarmysh) February 19, 2023
Set in Delhi, the documentary follows two siblings, Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who have devoted their lives to rescuing and treating injured birds, especially black kites. It previously won the ‘World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary’ at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, a film gala that promotes independent cinema and filmmakers, and earned the Golden Eye award for the best documentary at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. BAFTA Awards 2023: Carey Mulligan Was Mistakenly Announced as Winner of Best Supporting Actress Before Award Was Handed to Kerry Condon.
The prizes — officially known as the EE BAFTA Film Awards — are the UK’s equivalent of Hollywood’s Academy Awards. Hosted by Richard E Grant, the award ceremony was held at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
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