Mehdi Mahmoudian worked on the script of Jafar Panahi's 'It Was Just An Accident', which won last year's Palme d'Or and is ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian was arrested weeks before the Oscars and days after he signed a statement condemning Iran’s violent ...

The Oscar nominee was taken into custody in Tehran for signing a statement condemning the actions of Iran's supreme leader, ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of “It Was Just an Accident,” was one of several people detained after signing a letter objecting ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated Iranian co-writer of 'It Was Just An Accident' and human rights activist, has been ...

EXCLUSIVE: Walden Media has hired Oscar, BAFTA and Tony Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Christopher Hampton to adapt Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ...

One of the Oscar-nominated screenwriters of the Iranian drama, “It Was Just an Accident” was arrested yesterday in Tehran just weeks before the Academy Awards. Representatives for the film say that ...

Tom Stoppard, an Oscar-winning screenwriter, has died. He was 88. The celebrated playwright — who won an Academy Award for co-writing 1998’s Shakespeare in Love — died at his home in Dorset, England, ...

Oscar-nominated screenwriter arrested in Iran for criticising brutal crackdown on protesters - Mehdi Mahmoudian signed a ...

Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony winner for his plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Travesties,” “The Real Thing” and “The Coast of Utopia” and an Oscar winner ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, who co-wrote "It Was Just an Accident," was taken into custody in Tehran for signing a statement condemning the actions of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khameni.