On behalf of all nominees, we would like to express our unanimous and emphatic disapproval of the climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the U.S. Read the Best Foreign Language Film-nominated directors’ statement below: However, with the ban currently halted by a federal circuit court, two members of the White Helmets will attend the Oscars. Trump’s travel ban also nearly prevented two members of the Syrian rescue crew the White Helmets, the topic of a Best Documentary Short Subject-nominated film, from going to the Los Angeles ceremony. The statement comes after Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director of the Oscar-nominated The Salesman, said he would not attend this year’s ceremony due to Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban targeting Muslim countries in his place, Farhadi revealed Friday, he will send two prominent Iranian-Americans, engineer Anousheh Ansari and former NASA director Firouz Naderi, Variety reports. “These divisive walls prevent people from experiencing something simple but fundamental: from discovering that we are all not so different.” “The fear generated by dividing us into genders, colors, religions and sexualities as a means to justify violence destroys the things that we depend on – not only as artists but as humans: the diversity of cultures, the chance to be enriched by something seemingly ‘foreign’ and the belief that human encounters can change us for the better,” the filmmakers wrote. The filmmakers behind the five movies nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at Sunday’s Academy Awards banded together for a joint statement to “express our unanimous and emphatic disapproval of the climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the U.S.”

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