List of awards won by Abbas Kiarostami explained

Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami won the admiration of audiences and critics worldwide and received more than 70 awards in his career.^[1] These awards are listed below:

• Jury Special Award for The Bread and Alley at the 5th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, Iran 1970
• First Prize in Narrative Category for The Experience at the 4th Giffoni International Film Festival, Italy 1974
• Jury's Grand Prize for The Traveler at the 9th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, Iran 1974
• National TV Prize for The Traveler at the 9th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, Iran 1974
• Special Diploma of Critics for A Wedding Suit at the 11th Tehran International Festival of Films for the Children and Young Adults, Iran 1976
• First Prize for Two Solutions for One Problem at the International Educational Festival of Mexico, 1976
• Diploma of Honor for A Wedding Suit at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival, Soviet Union 1977
• Best Film Award for Case No. 1, Case No. 2 at the Iranian Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, 1979
• Golden Plaque of Best Short Film for The Chorus at the 2nd Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran 1984
• Jury Special Award for First Graders at the 4th Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran 1986
• Golden Plaque of Best Director for Where Is the Friend's Home? at the 5th Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran 1987
• Jury Special Award for Where Is the Friend's Home? at the 5th Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran 1987
• Bronze Leopard for Where Is the Friend's Home? at the 42nd Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland 1989
• FIPRESCI Special Mention for Where Is the Friend's Home? at the 42nd Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland 1989
• Prize of International Confederation of Art Cinemas for Where Is the Friend's Home? at the 42nd Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland 1989
• Ecumenical Jury's Special Mention for Where Is the Friend's Home? at the 42nd Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland 1989
• Barclay Jury Prize for Where Is the Friend's Home? at the 42nd Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland 1989
• Prize of International Confederation of Art Cinemas for Where Is the Friend's Home? at RCC, France, 1989
• Jury Special Prize for Close-Up at the 8th Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran 1990
• Silver R for Close-Up at the 3rd Rimini International Film Festival, Italy 1990
• Best Film Award for Where Is the Friend's Home? at the International Film Festival of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium, 1990
• Prize of Quebec Critics Association for Close-Up at the 19th Montreal International Festival of New Cinema & Video, Canada 1990
• Prize of Best Director for Close-Up at the 5th Dunkerque International Film Festival, France 1991
• Press Prize for Close-Up at the 5th Dunkerque International Film Festival, France 1991
• Prize of the City of Dunkerque for Close-Up at the 5th Dunkerque International Film Festival, France 1991
• Film Students Prize for Close-Up at the 5th Dunkerque International Film Festival,France 1991
• CINEKID Award for Where is the Friend's House? at the 5th Cinekid International Children Film Festival of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1992
• FIPRESCI Prize for Close-Up at the 11th Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey 1992
• Prix Roberto Rossellini Award for the Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 45th Cannes International Film Festival, France 1992
• Best Film Award of Un Certain Regard for And Life Goes On at the 45th Cannes International Film Festival. France 1992
• Prix Cine Decouvertes for And Life Goes On from the Association of Belgian Film Distributors, 1992
• François Truffaut Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 23rd Giffoni International Film Festival, Italy 1993
• Prize of City of Rimini for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 6th Rimini International Film Festival, Italy 1993
• Special award of festival for Film career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 6th Rimini International Film Festival, Italy 1993
• Special Award of Critics for And Life Goes On at the 17th São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil 1993
• Golden Spike for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 38th Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain 1993
• Silver Hugo for Through the Olive Trees at the 30th Chicago International Film festival, USA 1994
• Golden Spike for Through the Olive Trees at the 39th Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain 1994
• Special award of Critics for Through the Olive Trees at the 18th São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil 1994
• Award of Best Director for Through the Olive Trees at the 8th Singapore International Film Festival, 1995
• Golden Rose Award of Best Film for Through the Olive Trees at the 13th Bergamo Film Meeting, Italy 1995
• Best Film Award for Where Is the Friend's Home? at the Rome Summer Film Festival, Italy 1995
• The Third Best Audience Film Prize for Through the Olive Trees at the 44th Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia 1995
• Pier Paolo Pasolini Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami from Pier Paolo Pasolini Foundation, Rome 1995
• Director of the Year, the Variety International Film Guide, 1996
• Officier de la Légion d'honneur from Ministry of Culture and Art of France, 1996
• Palme d'Or for Best Film for Taste of Cherry at the 50th Cannes International Film Festival, France 1997
• Special award of Feast of Cinema for Abbas Kiarostami at the 2nd Feast of Cinema, Tehran 1997
• Special Prize of Festival for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 27th Giffoni International Film Festival, Italy 1997
• Vittorio De Sica Memorial Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami from Vittorio De Sica Foundation, Italy 1997
• Federico Fellini Gold Medal (UNESCO Special award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami from UNESCO, France 1997)
• Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Film of the Year by Time magazine in 1997
• Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Foreign Film of the Year by Society of Film Critics of Boston, USA 1998
• Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Foreign Film of the Year by the National Society of Film Critics, USA 1998
• Special Prize of Masters for Abbas Kiarostami at the 18th Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey 1999
• Jury Special Prize for The Wind Will Carry Us at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, Italy 1999
• FIPRESCI Award for The Wind Will Carry Us at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, Italy 1999
• The Youth Prize of Future Cinema for The Wind Will Carry Us at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, Italy 1999
• Golden Plaque of Panorama of European Cinema for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Athens, Greece 1999
• Special Prize for Film career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 21st Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival, France 1999
• Honorary Golden Alexander Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 40th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece 1999
• Selected as the Most Outstanding Filmmaker of '90s at the Polling of Cinematheque Ontario, Canada 2000
• Honorary Prize of the 18th Fajr International Film festival for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Tehran, Iran 2000
• The Best Filmmaker of '90s, Film Comment Poll, USA 2000
• Plaque of First Human Rights Declaration of the University of California at Berkeley, USA 2000
• The Golden Dolphin of Kish Island for Lifetime Achievement in Cinema, Iran 2000
• Akira Kurosawa Honorary Award of the 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2000
• Special Plaque of Lebanese Ministry of Culture and Art, Lebanon 2000
• Lifetime Achievement for Abbas Kiarostami at the 3rd Beirut Film Festival, Lebanon 2000
• Political Cinema Award of Recanati, Italy 2000
• Honorary doctorate, École Normale Supérieure, 2003
• Konrad Wolf Prize, 2003
• President of the Jury for Caméra d'Or Award, Cannes Festival 2005
• Fellowship of the British Film Institute, 2005
• Gold Leopard of Honor, Locarno film festival, 2005
• Prix Henri-Langlois Prize, 2006
• World's Great Masters, Kolkata International Film Festival, 2007
• Glory to the Filmmaker Award, Venice Film Festival, 2008
• Cup of Jamshid Award, 2008
• Espiga de Oro Largometraje for Certified Copy, Seminci, 2010

Notes and References

1. Web site: Abbas Kiarostami . 2007-02-27 . 2002 . Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa . Sense of Cinema . https://web.archive.org/web/20070217223813/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/kiarostami.html . 2007-02-17 . dead .