BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — One day after the Oscar-nominated directors of foreign language films issued an unprecedented joint statement decrying what they say is a climate of fascism, five of them gathered Saturday at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to put the focus back on their work. The foreign language film race has been overshadowed and informed by President Donald Trump's seven-country travel ban, which resulted in the Iranian Oscar-nominated director of "The Salesman," Asghar Farhadi, announcing that because of the ban, he would not attend Sunday's ceremony. Academy Governor Mark Johnson, who moderated the discussion, said that he has talked to Farhadi several times in the past week. "He has made it clear that he is so humbled to be nominated again," Johnson said.