2020Nominee
Best Picture
Welcome to Chechnya
Masha Gessen
Actor · Producer
Moscow, Russia
January 13, 1967
Biography
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns. Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights.
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Awards and Honors
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2013Nominee
Best Performance
Pussy Riot: The Movement
Video
Welcome to Chechnya