Iranian Oscar-nominated director can’t attend the ceremony
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, in the Best Foreign Film category for The Salesman, has been banned from attending the ceremony because of the new US visa restrictions.
AN IRANIAN film director up for an Oscar won’t be able to attend the ceremony in Los Angeles because of President Trump’s restrictions on visitors from seven Muslim-majority nations, it was reported Saturday.
Asghar Farhadi is up for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film category for his psychological thriller The Salesman.
He won Best Foreign Film for A Separation in 2012.
The film made history by becoming the first Iranian film to win an Academy Award.
The Tribeca Film Festival expressed its outrage, tweeting the situation is “heartbreaking and unacceptable.”
Oscar nominee Asghar Farhadi has been banned from entry into the U.S. to attend the ceremony in Feb. This is heartbreaking and unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/2PrwZWyBdw
— Tribeca (@Tribeca) January 28, 2017
Farhadi could obtain special permission to enter the U.S. but has not made a statement on the situation, media reports said.
One of the stars of A Separation, Taraneh Alidoosti, had already announced she would boycott the Oscars due to the visa restrictions placed on Iran.
This article originally appeared on the New York Post and has been republished here with permission.
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