Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: The selection of a documentary instead of a feature film to represent Iran at the Oscars has stirred negative reactions in some Iranian cultural circles, with the choice of Finding Farideh being likened to a coup.
Every year, the Farabi Cinema Foundation, which is affiliated to the Culture Ministry, forms a committee ...
Iran Daily - The multi-award winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi will be the recipient of the 2018 Stockholm Visionary Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival.
The Iranian director will be in Stockholm to accept the Bronze Horse and participate in question-and-answer sessions in conjunction with the screening of Everybody Knows on November ...
MNA Three Iranian film personalities have been invited as members by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as the Oscars awards body acts to boost diversity with 928 member invitations.
This is a record number of invitations by the Academy, beating last years record of 774 new members.
The expansion is said to be an effort ...
MNA Irans Foreign Language Academy Award entry for 2018, Narges Abyars Iran-Iraq war drama Breath, did not make the Academys shortlist that was announced on Thursday.
The Academy on Thursday announced the nine films that will compete for a nomination for the best foreign-language film Oscar. Irans entry, Narges Abyars Iran-Iraq war drama Breath,...
onardo DiCaprio has won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Revenant, finally putting an end to the actors supposed Oscar curse.
Many had predicted that this film would be the one to finally put DiCaprio over the top in his quest for the golden statue.
The actor left his usual charming, baby-faced character behind to embody ...
Tehran, Feb 29, IRNA Oscar-nominated celebrities have been urged to skip a $55,000 trip to Israel offered as part of an awards gift bag.
Two U.S.-based groups campaigning for an end to Israel's occupation of the Palestinian Territories made the plea in a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times that appeared five days before the Academy Awards ceremony ...
Internationally-acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's 'A Separation' has been nominated in two categories at the 2012 Academy Awards.
A few hours ago, TomSherak, Academy president, and Jennifer Lawrence, American actress, unveiled the nominees of 24 categories of the 84th Academy Awards.
As it was expected, the 2011 Golden Globe Award ...
Tehran, Dec 20, IRNA Reza Mirkarimis Today, Irans contender at Foreign Language Film Award category of the 87th Academy Award, failed to reach the Oscars shortlist.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled its nine-film shortlist of movies still in the running for the Oscar for best foreign-language film of 2014-2015. Irans contender ...
[caption id="attachment_132698" align="alignright" width="202"] Parvaneh, the 25-minute short film by Talkhon Hamzavi, is shortlisted for Oscars 2015.[/caption]
A film by an Iranian director has been initially shortlisted for the best Live Action Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards.
Parvaneh, the 25-minute short film by Talkhon Hamzavi, is one ...
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When Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres took her record-breaking "selfie" during the 86th Academy Awards social audiences responded in three ways.First, they retweeted it more than 2 million times.It broke the current ...
Marie searches expectantly for the arriving traveler, Ahmad, catching his eye at the airport gate but separated at that moment of encounter by transparent soundproof barriers in a lovely visual metaphor for being near yet far.The Pastis full of such visual emotional clues. Marie and Ahmad drive to her house (once it was their house) on a rutted road ...
[caption id="attachment_58716" align="alignright" width="180"] A scene from 'Hush Girls Dont Scream'[/caption]
Oscar Academy has requested a copy of screen script of the Iranian director Pouran Derakhshandehs latest dramaHush! Girls Dont Scream.
The center announced its request during a letter signed by Gregory Walsh, Script Librarian, Mehr News ...
(Reuters) -Iranhostage drama "Argo" continued its trophy-winning streak on Saturday, taking the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards in the latest boost to its chances at the Oscars.
Guild picks regularly go on to win at the film industry's most prestigious event - for the last five years, the producers' choice of best-produced film has taken the ...