He and Anousheh Ansari represented Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi at the 89th Academy Awards on for its winning in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Because of Farhadi's absence due to president Trump's 2017 immigration ban over seven Muslim countries including Iran; Farhadi selected Naderi and Ansari as his representatives at the Oscars, given that both of them are successful Iranian-Americans who immigrated to the US. On February 26, 2017, they accepted the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for The Salesman on Farhadi's behalf.