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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
The only category that I'm going to have to watch a couple of movies to decide on is the foreign language film. Did the Salesman win because it was an easy way to get a dig in at Trump? Toni Erdmann was running away with it up until the director of Salesman made a political statement by not traveling to the Oscars as a result of Trumps ban.
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Toni Erdmann was a dazzling film and was one of the best films of the year, foreign or not. The Salesman was a fine film though and Asghar Farhadi is a known commodity amongst Academy members as he has won an Oscar previously. And his films do pretty well commercially in North America to boot. So The Salesman's win was not surprising, with or without the travel ban.