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The Independent Iranian Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) has written to AMPAS to protest the omission of murdered director Dariush Mehrjui from the In Memoriam segment of the Academy Award on Sunday night.
As per Oscar tradition, the Academy paid tribute to a select group of 51 film and entertainment figures who had died over the previous year, including actor Matthew Perry, director William Friedkin, actor-performer Jane Birkin and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto in a short In Memoriam segment.
Mehrjui was named instead on the Academy’s In Memoriam page on its website, alongside 279 recently deceased figures related to the film world, including the 51 people feted at the ceremony.
The director was stabbed to death alongside his screenwriter wife Vahideh Moahmmadifar in their home outside Tehran last October.
The unsolved killing came just months after he posted an online video blasting the Iranian government’s suppression of the film industry, raising suspicions that his murder could be a state-sponsored crime.
IIFMA, which was created in 2023 in the wake of Iran’s Woman Life Freedom protests to represent filmmakers not affiliated with the oppressive Islamic Republic government, said the Academy’s In Memoriam website mention for Mehrjui was not enough.
“The exclusion of Dariush Mehrjui from your In Memoriam segment, a man who made such significant contributions to world cinema and fought for artistic freedom, is deeply disheartening,” wrote the body.
IIFMA noted Mehrjui’s role as one of founders of the Iranian New Wave in 1970s, suggesting he had helped put Iranian cinema on the global map and paved the way for the likes of Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi.
It also recalled that Mehrjui’s The Cycle (Dayerey Mina) was the
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