89th Academy Awards Exploration at NASA – accepted Asghar Farhadi's Oscar on his behalf at the ceremony. Congratulations which had initially been tweeted to the Iranian people from the US State Department's official Persian-language Twitter account were deleted following the acceptance speech given by Firouz Naderi in which President Trump's travel ban was described as "inhumane". Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway came onstage to present the award for Best Picture, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of "Bonnie and Clyde". After opening the envelope, Beatty hesitated to announce the winner, eventually showing it to Dunaway, who glanced at it and declared the favorite
Faye Dunaway from all of my heart, and without you, I would not be the same Faye Dunaway." Also in 2014, Dunaway had to pull out of a French drama called "Macadam Stories", in which she was going to play the lead, due to health issues, and was replaced by Isabelle Huppert. In 2016, Dunaway made two rare public appearances at the TCM Classic Film Festival. She hosted a screening of "Network" and also joined in conversation with Ben Mankiewicz for a Q&A session in which she discussed her decades-spanning career. The hour-long interview later aired on TCM as "Faye Dunaway: Live