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Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ Nominated for BAFTA 2018

The Academy award-winning film ‘The Salesman’ directed by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has been nominated for 2018 BAFTA Awards in the Best Film Not in the English Language category.

 ‘The Salesman’, which won Farhadi his second Oscar, has been nominated by BAFTA 2018 for Best Film Not in the English Language, along with ‘Elle’, ‘First They Killed My Father’, ‘The Handmaiden’, and ‘Loveless’, Mehr reported.

The Salesman had earlier won two awards at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for a Golden Globe and a Critics’ Choice Award among several other nationwide and universal recognitions.

Farhadi won Iran’s first-ever Academy Award with his drama A Separation in the 2012 Oscars.

The 71st British Academy Film Awards, known as the BAFTAs, will be held on 18 February 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

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