AP - Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has finally received his Oscar for best foreign language film, nearly three months after boycotting the Academy Awards ceremony. Farhadi received the statuette during the opening ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Wednesday. Farhadi boycotted the ceremony in February over President Donald Trump's ...

CNN - Iranian movie, "The Salesman," has struck gold again. A month after winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, the drama picked up Best Screenplay at the Asian Film Awards, which is widely considered to be the East's version of the Academy Awards. The movie, written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, was part of a pack dominated by winners ...

American Herald Tribune|Dr. Ludwig Watzal: Hollywood is the largest manufacturing facility for fake news. Every year, they are throwing out hundreds of products that are fake and have nothing to do with reality. Consequently, their awards, the Oscars, are awarded to fake products. It's not surprising that a fake humanitarian organization in Syria, ...

ISNA| Mona Hoobehfekr: Hundreds of Iranians have gathered at Tehran Cinema Museum to celebrate Asghar Farhadi's Academy Awards win for best foreign language film.    

AP- Hundreds of Iranians have gathered at Tehran Cinema Museum to celebrate Asghar Farhadi's Academy Awards win for best foreign language film. The Friday gathering congratulated Farhadi and his film crew on "The Salesman" with a standing ovation. In his short speech, Farhadi said the film was not a pre-planned project but, he added, "I decided to ...

MNA Over 100 members of the Iranian Parliament have issued a message of congratulation after Asghar Farhadis The Salesman won the Oscar at the 89th Academy Awards.In the statement issued by 110 MPs over Farhadis winning the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film, MPs noted that invaluable presence of an Iranian film in the eighty-ninth Academy Awards ...

Al-Monitor|Rohollah Faghihi: On Feb. 27, aroundsix in the morning, many Iranians were awake waiting to see if Iran would win its second Oscar. Finally, it was announced. Asghar Farhadis The Salesman won the Best Foreign Language Film award. Social networks burst into happiness, and Iranians celebrated this event as once again Irans culture became global....

AP -- Two Iranian hard-line newspapers have criticized Asghar Farhadi's best foreign film Oscar, claiming "politics" brought him the award. The Keyhan daily said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's executive order to ban U.S. entry for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, was behind the award for "The Salesman." The Javan ...

Financial Tribune- World renowned Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi won the Oscar for the bestforeign languagefilm at the 89th Academy Awards, which turned into a platform for censuring President Donald Trump's behavior and decisions in the past five weeks since he took office. American actress Shirley MacLaine, 82, announced the name of the winner ...

The Guardian- Donald Trump has suggested the calamitous end to the 2017 Oscars, where a mix-up with the awards envelope meant the team behind La La Land were told they had won best picture even though Moonlight won, was due to the award organizers being focused so hard on politics. The president, who vowed not to watch the ceremony, was constantly ...

Iranian Diplomacy|Hessam Emami : On January 24, Asghar Farhadis latest feature,The Salesman, already boasting two Cannes Film awards for best screenplay and best actor (Shahab Hosseini as Emad), wasnominatedfor the best foreign language film Academy Award, as many film critics expected. That was no novelty for either Farhadi or the Academy. As ...

The Guardian- The US state department has tweeted and then deleted a congratulatory message for an Oscar win by a prominent Iranian director who criticized President Donald Trumps travel ban as inhumane. The state departments official Persian-language Twitter account, @USAdarFarsi, tweeted congratulations to the Iranian people and Asghar Farhadi,...

The Guardian|Saeed Kamali Dehghan: The Iranian film-makers choice of a former Nasa scientist and the first Iranian in space to pick up his best foreign language Oscar delivered a subtle but powerful message about a world without borders Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadis choice of replacement speakers at the Oscars has won praise from Iranians and ...

AP|Nasser Karimi: Iranians on Monday cheered the choice of one of their own for best foreign film Oscar, lauding director Asghar Farhadi's boycott of the Hollywood ceremony for his film "The Salesman" as an act of defiance against the Trump administration's executive order. Farhadi refused to attend the Academy Awards, announcing after the temporary ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi hailed the achievement of the cast and crew of The Salesman for winning the second Oscar for Iran. On Sunday, Iranian director Asghar Farhadis movie won the 2017 Academy Award for best foreign-language film. Qasssemi on Monday congratulated the cast and crew of the movie as well as the ...

The Guardian|Catherine Shoard: Abbas Kiarostami, the veteran Iranian film-maker, has been remembered at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles. Kiarostami, widely felt to be one of the most important directors of the past 20 years, was behind such classics as Close-Up, Taste of Cherry and The Wind Will Carry Us. The winner of more than 70 awards including ...

IRNA First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri extended congratulation to prominent Iranian director Asghar Farhadi on winning the Oscar 2017. Addressing a local ceremony here on Monday, Jahangiri said his congratulations to Farhadi had two reasons: first for presenting a sterling and valuable job that led to winning the Academy Award, and second for ...

IFP- The US Department of State in a Farsi post in its Twitter account offered its congratulations to Farhadi, the cast and crew of The Salesman, and the Iranian people for winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. The London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who had organized a public screening for Farhadis film in Trafalgar Square of London ...

Variety- Mahershala Ali made history at Sunday nights Oscars, becoming the first Muslim actor to win an Academy Award. He won the first award of the night, best supporting actor, for Moonlight.It was one of the more uneasy races in the major categories. While Ali had been the critics champ and won the Screen Actors Guild prize, he lost the Golden ...

IRNA - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif congratulated early Monday acclaimed Iranian film director Asghar Farhadi for winning Oscar 2017. Proud of cast & crew of The Salesman for Oscar & stance against # MuslimBan. Iranians have presented culture & civilization for millennia, Zarif said on his Tweeter account released on Monday. Well-...