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Ruth Negga, wearing the ACLU ribbon, arrives at the Oscars telecast Sunday night in Los Angeles. Matt Sayles / Invision/AP

He later worried aloud that the president hadn't yet tweeted about the event sending a tweet of his own to see whether the president was awake. (The president hadn't yet responded, but former spokeswoman Katrina Pierson

Precedent suggested it could be no other way: With politics making headlines for years past most recently with Streep's furious speech at the Golden Globes.

Even before the ceremony began, the directors of all five nominees for best foreign-language film category published a letter expressing their fear of the "climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the U.S. and in so many other countries, in parts of the population and, most unfortunately at all, among leading politicians."

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The political messages began early, with the American Civil Liberties Union handing out blue ribbons to attendees on the red carpet. They were later also seen on nominees such as Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Farhadi wasn't the only Iranian skipping the ceremonies: His film's star,

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