The Eurasian Film Academy with an Oscar analogue can be established as early as 2024. About this informed Head of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) for Relations with Society and the Media Vladimir Legoyda in his telegram channel.
“We have the prospect of the emergence of the Eurasian Film Academy with the Eurasian analogue of the Oscar. The initiative was announced by Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov in 2022, and its practical implementation is considered possible next year. The Eurasian Academy should include the major film countries of Eurasia,” he explained.
According to the official representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, such a move reflects the long-awaited need for an alternative to the American award, which “does not so much assess the artistic value of paintings, but monitors respect (more precisely, dictates) with the principles of tolerance.
“The time for political correctness and polite silence is over. Patriarch Kirill recently pointed this out in no uncertain terms. Now is the time to act and take practical steps to uphold the traditional values we have declared,” Legoyda said.
With a proposal to create the Eurasian Film Academy as an analogue of the Oscars, the head of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, director Nikita Mikhalkov spoke at the first Eurasian Economic Forum in May 2022.
“Images that correspond to the ideals that we will formulate, and not images that destroy the human essence, will participate in it. The price should be expensive, they should fight for it,” he noted.
The Eurasian Film Academy, according to the director, will become a mechanism for “political self-defense of the essence of Eurasianism” and protection of the cultural and moral traditions that unite the countries of Eurasia.
The 95th Academy Awards took place on March 12 in Los Angeles. The award in the Best Picture category went to sci-fi action comedy All Around, directed by Daniel Schinert and Dan Kwan. All Quiet on the Western Front won the Best Foreign Language Film nomination. The work “Navalny” by American director Daniel Roer was named best documentary film.
