Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's latest creation, The Salesman, is all the hype after scoring an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
But, it's the film's lead actress, Taraneh Alidoosti, who is now grabbing attention after she promised to boycott the Oscars this year in protest of U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed ban targeting Muslim-majority countries.
"Trump's visa ban for Iranians is racist. Whether this will include a cultural event or not, I won't attend the Academy Awards 2017 in protest," Alidoosti tweeted.
The 33-year-old actress said she would not attend the Oscars regardless of whether she receives the visa or not.
"I decided not to go even if I could, because it hurts me deeply to see ordinary people of my country being rejected for what might be their legal right to have access to their children abroad or to their school classes as students," Alidoosti told The New York Times.
Alidoosti took up her first role in 2002, when she played in "I Am Taraneh, I am Fifteen Years Old"
She is also widely known for her role in the popular Iranian TV soap opera "Shahrzad."
She snagged a silver Leopard on the 55th Locarno Film Festival, as well as the Cristal Simorgh at Iran's biggest film festival, Fajr.
A strong act of solidarity
Alidoosti's decision comes days after Donald Trump's executive order that places a visa ban on people from 7 Muslim-majority countries -- namely Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen surfaced.