Awards
More than 90 international awards spanning half a century of artistic practice.
Jury Special Award for The Bread and Alley
5th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
National TV Prize for The Traveler
9th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
First Prize in Narrative Category for The Experience
4th Giffoni International Film Festival
Jury’s Grand Prize for The Traveler
9th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
First Prize for Two Solutions for One Problem
International Educational Festival of Mexico
Iran National TV Prize for A Wedding Suit
11th Tehran International Festival of Films for the Children and Young Adults
Special Diploma of Critics for A Wedding Suit
11th Tehran International Festival of Films for the Children and Young Adults
Diploma of Honor for A Wedding Suit
10th Moscow International Film Festival
Best Film Award for Case No. 1, Case No. 2
Iranian Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
Golden Plaque of Best Short Film for The Chorus
2nd Fajr International Film Festival
Jury Special Award for First Graders
4th Fajr International Film Festival
Crystal Simorgh for Best Sound Recorders for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
5th Fajr International Film Festival
Golden Plaque of Best Director for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
5th Fajr International Film Festival
Crystal Simorgh for Best Sound Recorders for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
5th Fajr International Film Festival
Jury Special Award for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
5th Fajr International Film Festival
Prize for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
International Confederation of Art Cinemas
Prize of International Confederation of Art Cinemas for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
Barclay Jury Prize for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
Ecumenical Jury’s Special Mention for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Special Mention for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
Bronze Leopard for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
Best Film Award for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
International Film Festival of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium
Jury Special Prize for Close-Up
8th Fajr International Film Festival
Silver R for Close-Up
3rd Rimini International Film Festival
Press Prize for Close-Up
5th Dunkerque International Film Festival
Prize of the City of Dunkerque for Close-Up
5th Dunkerque International Film Festival
Prize of Best Director for Close-Up
5th Dunkerque International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize for Close-Up
11th Istanbul International Film Festival
Prix Roberto Rossellini Award for the Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
45th Cannes International Film Festival
Award for Where is the Friend’s House?
5th Cinekid International Children Film Festival of Amsterdam
Special Award of Critics for Life and Nothing More…
17th São Paulo International Film Festival
Prize of City of Rimini for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
6th Rimini International Film Festival
François Truffaut Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
23rd Giffoni International Film Festival
Special award of the festival for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
6th Rimini International Film Festival
Golden Spike for Through the Olive Trees
39th Valladolid International Film Festival
Silver Hugo for Through the Olive Trees
30th Chicago International Film festival
Special award of Critics for Through the Olive Trees
18th São Paulo International Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award
Festa del Cinema Rome
Pier Paolo Pasolini Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
Pier Paolo Pasolini Foundation
Golden Rose Award of Best Film for Through the Olive Trees
13th Bergamo Film Meeting
Award of Best Director for Through the Olive Trees
8th Singapore International Film Festival
Best Film Award for Where Is the Friend’s Home?
Rome Summer Film Festival
Officier de la Légion d’honneur
Ministry of Culture and Art of France
Special award for Abbas Kiarostami
2nd Feast of Cinema
Palme d’Or for Best Film for Taste of Cherry
50th Cannes International Film Festival
Special Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
27th Giffoni International Film Festival
Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Film of the Year
Time magazine
Honorary Award
Iranian Cinema Celebration
Federico Fellini Gold Medal (UNESCO Special award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami)
UNESCO
Vittorio De Sica Memorial Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
Vittorio De Sica Foundation
Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Foreign Film of the Year
National Society of Film Critics
Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Foreign Film of the Year
Society of Film Critics of Boston
Golden Plaque for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami,
Panorama of European Cinema
Special Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
21st International Mediterranean Film Festival
FIPRESCI Award for The Wind Will Carry Us
56th Venice International Film Festival
Selection of Under The Olive Trees as the 3rd Best Films of the 1990s
Cinematheque Ontario Polling
Selection of And Life Goes On… as the 2nd Best Films of the 1990s
Cinematheque Ontario Polling
Selection of Close Up as the 5th Best Films of the 1990s
Cinematheque Ontario Polling
Selection of Taste of Cherry as the 9th Best Films of the 1990s
Cinematheque Ontario Polling
Selected as the Most Outstanding Filmmaker of ’90s
Polling of Cinematheque Ontario
Honorary Golden Alexander Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
40th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Audience Award
28th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
FIPRESCI Award for The Wind Will Carry Us
56th Venice International Film Festival
Special Prize of Masters for Abbas Kiarostami
18th Istanbul International Film Festival
Jury Special Prize for The Wind Will Carry Us
56th Venice International Film Festival
The first prize for The Wind Will Carry US
7th Belgrade Film Festival
Honorary Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami
18th Fajr International Film festival
The Best Filmmaker of ’90s
Film Comment Poll
Lifetime Achievement Award for Abbas Kiarostami
3rd Beirut Film Festival
Akira Kurosawa Honorary Award
43rd San Francisco International Film Festival
Special Plaque
Lebanese Ministry of Culture and Art
Special Award
12th Damascus International Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award for Abbas Kiarostami
25th Cairo Film Festival
The Konrad Wolf Prize
The Academy of Arts, Berlin
Fellowship of the British Film Institute
British Film Institute
Gold Leopard of Honor
Locarno film festival
Honorary Award
Marrakech Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award
2nd Reykjavík Film Festival
Honorary Prize, 16th
Films From the South Festival
World’s Great Masters
Kolkata International Film Festival
Jaam-e Jahan-Nama (Cup of Jamshid) Award
Iranian Short Film Association
Lifetime Achievement Award
5th Batumi Film Festival
CineMerit Award
Munich Film Festival
The Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche
Cannes Film Festival
Espiga de Oro Largometraje for Certified Copy
Valladolid International Film Festival
Best Foreign Language Film for Certified Copy
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Selection of Close-Up as the 42nd Film
The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time
Lifetime Achievement Prize in Art
51st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
Tomas Gutierrez Alea International Film Award
Association of Cuban Writers
Asian Filmmaker of the Year
Busan International Film Festival
Jean Renoir Award for International Screenwriting Achievement
Writers Guild of America
Jean Renoir Award
Writers Guild of America
Special Prize
14th Eurasia Film Festival
Palme d’Or for Best Film for Taste of Cherry
50th Cannes International Film Festival