Pro-Ukraine group asks Oscar voters not to support Top Gun over alleged ties to Russian oligarch
that the Ukrainian World Congress is speaking out about “its serious concerns over Russia’s influence on the Hollywood film industry,” specifically “the nomination offor six prizes at the 95th Academy Awards.” The UWC argues that, since nobody knew Rybolovlev was apparently involved, it “may have led to censorship on behalf of the Kremlin.
” The organization even has an interesting argument for that: “Unlike the original film,MaverickIt seems unlikely that anything will come of this, since the Oscars are only a couple of days away, but also Rybolovlev wasincluded on the list of Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the U.S. government , and it seems a little weird for the Motion Picture Academy—which—to operate on different standards than the federal government.
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