Jafar Panahi Is in “Very Heavy Mourning” for Iran |
This March, Jafar Panahi could win his first Oscar. But the decorated Iranian filmmaker—whose masterful It Was Just an Accident has already won numerous awards this season—is struggling to celebrate his success amid the ongoing unrest in his home country. “I am in the process of a very heavy mourning because of what has happened in my country. I am in shock, like all the other people. This doesn’t allow me to feel much.” Vanity Fair speaks with Panahi about the peaks and valleys of this awards season, from the arrest of his Oscar-nominated co-screenwriter to the political upheaval happening in his home country, Iran.
Elsewhere in HWD, romance novelist Julia Quinn says political advocacy has “felt more important than writing books;” José Criales-Unzueta has your best-dressed stars from all the award shows so far; Rebecca Ford on Marty Supreme, the Safdie brothers controversy, and what happens when scandal strikes an Oscar campaign; and love is in the air, as are the new movies, TV shows, and comedy specials headed to Netflix in February. |
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