Mstyslav Chernov’s 20 Days in Mariupol won the 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. This is the first Oscar for Ukraine, won under such dramatic conditions. Sources used: Wikipedia and the director’s Facebook page Mstyslav Chernov Mstyslav was born in Kharkiv in 1985. He began his career as a photographer in 2005, working for the local Kharkiv news agency MediaPort. In 2008, he received the first prize at the local photo exhibition “Kharkiv. City through the eyes of citizens”. The same year he held his first solo photo exhibition “Musica per somnia”, conceived and organized wi…