At Cannes , Shahab Hosseini won the award for Best Actor and Asghar Farhadi won the award for Best Screenplay . It also won the unofficial " Palme de Whiskers " in recognition of a featured cat , " Mrow , the Tehran street cat " . The film was the Iranian submission for Best Foreign Language Film , winning the Oscar at the 89th Academy Awards , marking Farhadi 's second win after '' A Separation '' . The Persian playwright and filmmaker , Bahram Beyzai congratulated Farhadi on his Academy Award in a voice message played in public by Hayedeh Safiyari , the editor of the film
89th Academy Awards
89th Academy Awards
The Salesman (2016 film)