As he announced he would be doing in January, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi skipped this year’s Academy Awards ceremony to protest Trump’s disaster of a travel ban. Farhadi’s brilliant A Separation won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2012, and tonight his The Salesman won in that same category.
On Friday, the six directors nominated in this year’s foreign language Oscar category issued a joint statement denouncing what they called, “the climate of fanaticism and nationalism today in the U.S. and in so many other countries, in parts of the population and, most unfortunately of all, among leading politicians.”…
Stars, they’re just like us! They do their laundry (I mean, the laundry gets done), and eat dinner, and despise Donald Trump’s xenophobic travel bans.
On Friday night, President Donald Trump issued a heartbreaking, intensely xenophobic executive order that indefinitely blocks immigration of Syrian refugees to the United States, and bans all immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries (Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen) for 90 days. The…
