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TheSalesman wins best foreign language Oscar

Protest vote against Donald Trump’s travel ban suspected to bepartly behind Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s surprise victory

Catherine Shoard

Sunday26 February 2017 21.58 EST

Iranian director AsgharFarhadi has won thebest foreign language Oscar in Los Angeles, for a second time, for domesticdrama The Salesman. Farhadi, 44, did not attend the ceremony because he saidthat the conditions that would be attached to a potential entry visa were unacceptable.

The director hadoriginally planned to travel to Hollywood for the prize-giving to highlight“the unjust circumstances that have arisen for the immigrants and travellers ofseveral countries to the United States”.

The surge in votes forhis film was thought by some to be a registration by Oscar voters of a protestagainst DonaldTrump’s travel ban, which aimed to prevent people coming to the USfrom seven Muslim-majority countries. On Sunday evening in London, a freescreening of The Salesman was introduced by London mayor Sadiq Khan.

Until the ramifications of the ban forfilm-makers such as Farhadi became clear, Germany’s Toni Erdmann had been thestrong favourite to take the prize. The other nominees were Land of Mine(Denmark), Tanna (Australia) and A Man Called Ove (Sweden).

The Salesman premiered at Cannes last May, whereit won best actor for Shahab Hosseini and best screenplay for Farhadi – despite moderatenotices from critics. The film follows a couple in Tehran involvedin an amateur dramatic production of Arthur Miller’s The Salesman, who areforced to move apartments following an earthquake. But the flat into which theymove has an unhappy history, compounded by an unwelcome intruder.