1970
5th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
Jury Special Award for The Bread and Alley, Iran
1974
4th Giffoni International Film Festival
First Prize in Narrative Category for The Experience, Italy
1974
9th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
Jury’s Grand Prize for The Traveler, Iran
1974
9th Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
National TV Prize for The Traveler, Iran
1976
11th Tehran International Festival of Films for the Children and Young Adults
Iran National TV Prize for A Wedding Suit, Iran
1976
International Educational Festival of Mexico
First Prize for Two Solutions for One Problem, Mexico
1976
11th Tehran International Festival of Films for the Children and Young Adults
Special Diploma of Critics for A Wedding Suit, Iran
1977
10th Moscow International Film Festival
Diploma of Honor for A Wedding Suit, Soviet Union
1979
Iranian Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
Best Film Award for Case No. 1, Case No. 2, Iran
1984
2nd Fajr International Film Festival
Golden Plaque of Best Short Film for The Chorus, Iran
1986
4th Fajr International Film Festival
Jury Special Award for First Graders, Iran
1987
5th Fajr International Film Festival
Crystal Simorgh for Best Sound Recorders for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Iran
1987
5th Fajr International Film Festival
Jury Special Award for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Iran
1987
5th Fajr International Film Festival
Crystal Simorgh for Best Sound Recorders for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Iran
1987
5th Fajr International Film Festival
Golden Plaque of Best Director for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Iran
1989
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
Barclay Jury Prize for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Switzerland
1989
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
Bronze Leopard for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Switzerland
1989
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
Ecumenical Jury’s Special Mention for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Switzerland
1989
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
Prize of International Confederation of Art Cinemas for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Switzerland
1989
International Confederation of Art Cinemas
Prize for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, France
1989
42nd Locarno International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Special Mention for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Switzerland
1990
3rd Rimini International Film Festival
Silver R for Close-Up, Italy
1990
8th Fajr International Film Festival
Jury Special Prize for Close-Up, Iran
1990
International Film Festival of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium
Best Film Award for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Belgium
1991
5th Dunkerque International Film Festival
Prize of the City of Dunkerque for Close-Up, France
1991
5th Dunkerque International Film Festival
Press Prize for Close-Up, France
1991
5th Dunkerque International Film Festival
Prize of Best Director for Close-Up, France
1992
45th Cannes International Film Festival
Prix Roberto Rossellini Award for the Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, France
1992
5th Cinekid International Children Film Festival of Amsterdam
Award for Where is the Friend’s House?, The Netherlands
1992
11th Istanbul International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize for Close-Up, Turkey
1993
17th São Paulo International Film Festival
Special Award of Critics for Life and Nothing More…, Brazil
1993
23rd Giffoni International Film Festival
François Truffaut Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Italy
1993
6th Rimini International Film Festival
Prize of City of Rimini for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Italy
1993
6th Rimini International Film Festival
Special award of the festival for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Italy
1994
30th Chicago International Film festival
Silver Hugo for Through the Olive Trees, USA
1994
18th São Paulo International Film Festival
Special award of Critics for Through the Olive Trees, Brazil
1994
39th Valladolid International Film Festival
Golden Spike for Through the Olive Trees, Spain
1995
Pier Paolo Pasolini Foundation
Pier Paolo Pasolini Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Italy
1995
Rome Summer Film Festival
Best Film Award for Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Italy
1995
13th Bergamo Film Meeting
Golden Rose Award of Best Film for Through the Olive Trees, Italy
1995
8th Singapore International Film Festival
Award of Best Director for Through the Olive Trees, Singapore
1995
Festa del Cinema Rome
Lifetime Achievement Award, Italy
1996
Ministry of Culture and Art of France
Officier de la Légion d’honneur, France
1997
2nd Feast of Cinema
Special award for Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
1997
Vittorio De Sica Foundation
Vittorio De Sica Memorial Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Italy
1997
27th Giffoni International Film Festival
Special Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Italy
1997
50th Cannes International Film Festival
Palme d’Or for Best Film for Taste of Cherry, France
1997
UNESCO
Federico Fellini Gold Medal (UNESCO Special award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami), France
1997
Iranian Cinema Celebration
Honorary Award, Iran
1997
Time magazine
Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Film of the Year, ?
1997 (Seems like there's two of this record)
50th Cannes International Film Festival
Palme d’Or for Best Film for Taste of Cherry, France
1998
Society of Film Critics of Boston
Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Foreign Film of the Year, USA
1998
National Society of Film Critics
Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Foreign Film of the Year, USA
1999
28th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Audience Award, Canada
1999
Cinematheque Ontario Polling
Selection of Under The Olive Trees as the 3rd Best Films of the 1990s, Canada
1999
56th Venice International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Award for The Wind Will Carry Us, Italy
1999
40th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Honorary Golden Alexander Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Greece
1999
21st International Mediterranean Film Festival
Special Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, France
1999
Polling of Cinematheque Ontario
Selected as the Most Outstanding Filmmaker of ’90s, Canada
1999
Cinematheque Ontario Polling
Selection of And Life Goes On… as the 2nd Best Films of the 1990s, Canada
1999
56th Venice International Film Festival
Jury Special Prize for The Wind Will Carry Us, Italy
1999
56th Venice International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Award for The Wind Will Carry Us, Italy
1999
Panorama of European Cinema
Golden Plaque for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami,, Greece
1999
18th Istanbul International Film Festival
Special Prize of Masters for Abbas Kiarostami, Turkey
1999
Cinematheque Ontario Polling
Selection of Taste of Cherry as the 9th Best Films of the 1990s, Canada
1999
Cinematheque Ontario Polling
Selection of Close Up as the 5th Best Films of the 1990s, Canada
2000
7th Belgrade Film Festival
The first prize for The Wind Will Carry US, Yugoslavia
2000
18th Fajr International Film festival
Honorary Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
2000
Lebanese Ministry of Culture and Art
Special Plaque, Lebanon
2000
43rd San Francisco International Film Festival
Akira Kurosawa Honorary Award, USA
2000
3rd Beirut Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award for Abbas Kiarostami, Lebanon
2000
Film Comment Poll
The Best Filmmaker of ’90s, USA
2001
25th Cairo Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award for Abbas Kiarostami, Egypt
2001
12th Damascus International Film Festival
Special Award, Syria
2003
The Academy of Arts, Berlin
The Konrad Wolf Prize, Germany
2005
2nd Reykjavík Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award, Iceland
2005
British Film Institute
Fellowship of the British Film Institute, UK
2005
Marrakech Film Festival
Honorary Award, Morocco
2005
Locarno film festival
Gold Leopard of Honor, Switzerland
2006
Films From the South Festival
Honorary Prize, 16th, Norway
2007
Kolkata International Film Festival
World’s Great Masters, India
2008
Iranian Short Film Association
Jaam-e Jahan-Nama (Cup of Jamshid) Award, Iran
2010
Valladolid International Film Festival
Espiga de Oro Largometraje for Certified Copy, Spain
2010
5th Batumi Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award, Georgia
2010
Cannes Film Festival
The Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche, France
2010
Munich Film Festival
CineMerit Award, Germany
2011
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Best Foreign Language Film for Certified Copy, USA
2012
The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time
Selection of Close-Up as the 42nd Film, UK
2014
51st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Prize in Art, Turkey
2016
Association of Cuban Writers
Tomas Gutierrez Alea International Film Award, Cuba
2016
Busan International Film Festival
Asian Filmmaker of the Year, South Korea
2017
Writers Guild of America
Jean Renoir Award for International Screenwriting Achievement, USA
2017
Writers Guild of America
Jean Renoir Award, USA
2018
14th Eurasia Film Festival
Special Prize, Kazakhstan