New Delhi, March 17 -- "Mr. Nobody Against Putin," which takes on the Russian leader's propaganda and patriotism program for the nation's youth after the invasion of Ukraine, won the Oscar for best documentary feature Sunday.

"In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now," the film's protagonist and co-director Pavel Talankin said in Russian from the stage through a translator.

Talankin was a teacher and activities director in a small-town school in Russia who captured on video his students' lessons, chants and songs promoting the war in Ukraine. He smuggled his hard drives out of the country to collaborate with American director David Borenstein, who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. ...