Iranian documentary, ‘Finding Farideh,’ which was picked by Iranian cinematic officials to represent the country for the upcoming Oscars, failed to make it to the primary shortlist announced on Tuesday.Read More

 Rayka Zehtabchi, an Iranian filmmaker, received the Short Film (Live Action) award for her film, ‘Period. End of Sentence.’, on Sunday. Zehtabchi, 25, said in her speech when receiving the prize that she couldn’t believe that a film about health problems could win an Oscar. Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton made the film about the health...Read More

Women accounted for 27.5 percent of all the Oscar nominees in 2019, a slight uptick from last year’s record-setting year, in which only 26.8 percent of the nominations went to women. Of the 225 individuals nominated this year in the 24 competitive categories, 62 women were named, based on a tally from TheWrap. That’s compared...Read More

The success of Iranian cinema in terms of winning the Best Foreign Language Film Award in Oscars competition was 8.69 percent to rank it in the fourth position in this category. It had 23 submissions in the 70 years of Academy Awards history, ISNA wrote. Czechoslovakia also ranks fourth with 23 submissions and winning two...Read More