Internationally-celebrated Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's latest drama Nader and Simin: A Separation has been nominated for the 37th Cesar Awards.
Farhadi's award-sweeper film has entered the Best Foreign Film line-up of the 2012 Cesar Awards.
A Separation will compete with world top hit movies such as Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, Lars Von Trier's Melancholia, Denis Villeneuve's Incendies and Tom Hooper's The King's Speech.
The 2011 Golden Globe Award winning movie is also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film and the Best Original Screenplay of the 84th Academy Awards.
Farhadi's a Separation has hit Canadian and Brazilian cinemas since January 20, 2012, as scheduled earlier.
Farhadi's masterpiece won the award for the Best Foreign Language film at the 2012 edition of Golden Globes. It also received the 2012 Turkish Film Critics Association Award (SIYAD) in the same category.
The 2011 New York Film Critics Circle also granted its Best Foreign Film award to A Separation.
Nader and Simin: A Separation, alongside French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius's silent movie The Artist, received the Best Foreign Language Film, Best Supporting Actress and the Best Screenwriter at the 2012 London Critics' Circle Awards (LCCA).
The film has also been nominated for the 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards, a multi-cultural accolade presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The Iranian drama was awarded by the 2012 Broadcast Film Critics Association. It also received the 17th BFCA Annual Critics' Choice Movie's Best Foreign Language Film award.
Farhadi's A Separation was recently selected as the best film of 2011 by Wall Street Journal and the second best film of the same year by the international film magazine, Sight and Sound.
Farhadi's latest production won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's 2011 Screenplay Award.
The critically acclaimed movie has entered the Best Foreign film line-up of the International Press Academy (IPA) Satellite Awards.
The New York Times has predicted that Farhadi's film will win the 2012 Best Foreign Film Oscar.
The 37th Cesar Awards ceremony will be held in Paris on February 24, 2012.
