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Is There A Route To The Oscars For Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Following Palme D’Or Win?
Could Jafar Panahi Go To The Oscars Following Palme D’Or Win For ‘It Was Just An Accident’?
As Iranian director Jafar Panahi ’s It Was Just An Accident was declared winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or on Saturday evening, one of the first questions from the Deadline team was: “Could it go to Oscars?”. Aside from Panahi’s outspoken stance against its stranglehold on democracy which has twice landed him in prison, the film is highly critical of Iran’s penal system on the back of his own firsthand experiences. Billed as “a powerful statement for humanity” by Deadline critic Pete Hammond, It Was Just An Accident follows wrongfully incarcerated working-class people who seek revenge against the guard who tortured and berated them.
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