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Sam Sanders in just a minute

about the Oscars as a TV show,

what he thinks about who won, and maybe even why it might be a good thing that the show is moving

to YouTube. But I want to put our little corner of the Oscars that we spotlight on this show

right at the top so it doesn't get lost, as it almost always does on the telecast.

And that's the feature-length documentaries. As many of you know, we had all five nominated

directors this year. The winning documentary was Mr. Nobody Against Putin. So here's the director,

David Bornstein, on our show in February after I asked him what it could

mean if he won.

On one hand, we think it's important to show what's happening in Russia.

We think it's really important to show the world, especially right now, and we're debating

Putin's intention.

Just look at what he's saying in the classrooms

every single day in Russia. We're training you for a future of warfare. There's absolutely no doubt

that he is not going to stop with Ukraine when you just watch this film. And then beyond that,

we have what's most interesting to me in many ways is the more universal

story about resistance. This is a film that I hope makes people think about their own capacity

to affect change in some way, that we all face a moral choice when dealing with authoritarian

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