Though you might not have guessed it from the brief and elegant acceptance speech made by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi at last week's Oscars, moviemaking in Iran today requires an authentic act of ...

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The courtroom drama is a contender for Academy Award nominations in screenplay, directing and foreign-language film categories. By Tim Appelo This article appeared in the Dec. awards issue of The ...

While the Iran-Israel conflict threatened to explode into yet another war in the Middle East, filmmakers from both countries were honored together at an event before this year’s Oscars. Each country ...

As predictable as this years Oscarcast was — perhaps more so than any recent year I can recall — there were some moving moments, as when Asghar Farhadi won for the Iranian film “A Separation.” With ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "A Separation" won the Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday, becoming the first Iranian movie to win the honor. Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, the domestic ...

There’s not much of a case that can be made for keeping A Separation out of the Best Picture race when so many inferior but more heavily-marketed movies made the cut. It’s distasteful, actually. This ...