Farhadi’s film The Salesman is nominated in the Foreign Language category alongside Land of Mine in their apartment.
British filmmaking and acting talent are attempting to screen the Oscar-nominated film of the director affected by Donald Trump’s Muslim ban in London in protest of the President’s ruling on Oscars night.
The director made awards history in 2012 when his film A Separation became the first Iranian film to win an Oscar.
Leading names from the film industry have written to the Duke of Westminster seeking permission to hold a screening of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square on 26 February.