He announced this on his Facebook page.
“I regret to say that I have made a difficult decision for myself and I ask you to shoot my film“ Dear Comrades! ”
with a nomination for the 2020 National Film Critics and Film Press Awards, ”he wrote.
Konchalovsky expressed gratitude to the expert council for the high appraisal of his film and its nomination for the award in six nominations, but noted that he did not agree that the nominee for the film award in the category "Event of the Year" was, in his opinion, a project that "can be considered as political act ".
“Therefore, I am sad to see that this year the nominee for the National Film Critics and Film Press Awards in the category“ Event of the Year ”is a publicistic project that can be considered as a political act, but cannot receive any marks according to the criteria of cinema.
It’s as if the editorial in the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” won a prize for literature, ”he said.
According to him, "the mistake of the expert council" deprived people this year of the opportunity to objectively assess the art of cinematography within the professional community.
Earlier it was reported that Konchalovsky's film "Dear Comrades!"
was not nominated for an Oscar.