The film premiered in competition in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival , where it won two awards — Best Screenplay for Farhadi and Best Actor for Hosseini . '' The Salesman '' went on to receive more positive reviews , and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . However , Farhadi did not attend the 89th Academy Awards ceremony in protest of the U.S. Executive Order 13769
2016 Cannes Film Festival
2016 Cannes Film Festival
The Salesman (2016 film)