MNA� Third-time Golden Globe nominated filmmaker Asghar Farhadi stopped short of winning 2017 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film on Sun., conceding the award to Paul Verhoeven's thriller�'Elle'.


The 74th Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place Sunday night on Jan. 8, where the critically-acclaimed musical 'La La Land' won all seven of the categories it was nominated in, including Best Actor award for Ryan Gosling,�Best Actress for Emma Stone�and�Best Director for its auteur�Damian Chazelle.

Asghar Farhadi�s �The Salesman� had a good chance of winning this year�s Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film which would make it his second Golden Globe win�after �A Separation�, as it was named by the US National Board of Review as the best foreign language film of the year. However, the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA)�that had nominated Farhadi�s �The Salesman� for Best Foreign Language Film, gave the award to �Elle�.

The Iranian drama tells the story of Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a couple who are part-time actors playing Willy and Linda Loman in a Tehran production of Arthur Miller�s 'Death of a Salesman', when an intruder in their new home shakes this marriage to its core.

�Elle� also brought lead actress Isabelle Huppert the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

�The Salesman� has also been chosen to represent Iran at the 2017 Academy Awards. It remains to be seen if Farhadi can bring another Oscar for the Iranian cinema.