Iranian-American astronaut Anousheh Ansari accepted the Oscar for best foreign film on behalf of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who boycotted the awards ceremony over Trump’s Muslim travel ban. This is Ansari reading Farhadi’s statement.

Anousheh Ansari: “I’m sorry I’m not with you tonight. My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations who have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the U.S.”

Ahead of the awards ceremony, the directors of the Oscar-nominated foreign-language films issued a statement reading: “On behalf of all nominees, we would like to express our unanimous and emphatic disapproval 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 of all, among leading politicians.”

“OJ: Made in America” won for best documentary, beating out Ava Duvernay’s “13th” about mass incarceration and Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” about James Baldwin, among other documentaries.