Asghar Farhadi has won two Best Foreign Language Feature Oscars in five years: in 2017 for The Salesman and in 2012 for A Separation, which became the most profitable Iranian film in history. He ventured to Spain to make his latest film, Everybody Knows, starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, but he continues to live and work in Iran, even as his compatriot filmmakers have been silenced by the authorities or have fled into exile. — The New York Times Magazine