Navalny director and Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher on his Oscars-night whirlwind

Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher delivered one of the most stirring acceptance speeches in recent Oscars history when he won the award for Best Documentary this past Sunday

has stared down criminals, killers and Kremlin spies, so you would think that little would rattle the man. Yet the director ofwas a big old pile of nerves all the same this past Sunday night inside L.A.’s Dolby Theatre, as the nominees for Best Documentary were read out by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson during the“I put my wife’s hand to my chest to feel how fast my heart was beating,” the director recalls.

“Alexey, the world has not forgotten your vital message to us all,” Roher said onstage while accepting the award. “We cannot, we must not be afraid to oppose dictators and authoritarianism. Wherever it rears its head.”

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