Over 70 international awards spanning half a century of artistic practice.
Jury Special Award
5th Tehran Intl. Festival · The Bread and Alley
First Prize, Narrative
4th Giffoni Intl. Film Festival · The Experience
Jury's Grand Prize
9th Tehran Intl. Festival · The Traveler
National TV Prize
9th Tehran Intl. Festival · The Traveler
Iran National TV Prize
11th Tehran Intl. Festival · A Wedding Suit
First Prize
Intl. Educational Festival of Mexico · Two Solutions for One Problem
Special Diploma of Critics
11th Tehran Intl. Festival · A Wedding Suit
Diploma of Honor
10th Moscow Intl. Film Festival · A Wedding Suit
Best Film Award
Iranian Festival of Films for Children · Case No. 1, Case No. 2
Golden Plaque, Best Short Film
2nd Fajr Intl. Film Festival · The Chorus
Jury Special Award
4th Fajr Intl. Film Festival · First Graders
Golden Plaque, Best Director
5th Fajr Intl. Film Festival · Where Is the Friend's Home?
Bronze Leopard
42nd Locarno Intl. Film Festival · Where Is the Friend's Home?
FIPRESCI Special Mention
42nd Locarno Intl. Film Festival · Where Is the Friend's Home?
Ecumenical Jury Special Mention
42nd Locarno Intl. Film Festival · Where Is the Friend's Home?
Silver R
3rd Rimini Intl. Film Festival · Close-Up
Best Film Award
Royal Film Archive of Belgium · Where Is the Friend's Home?
Prize of Best Director
5th Dunkerque Intl. Film Festival · Close-Up
Prix Roberto Rossellini
45th Cannes Film Festival · Career
Best Film, Un Certain Regard
45th Cannes Film Festival · And Life Goes On
François Truffaut Award
23rd Giffoni Intl. Film Festival · Career
Golden Spike
38th Valladolid Intl. Film Festival · Through the Olive Trees
Special Award of Critics
17th São Paulo Intl. Film Festival · Life and Nothing More…
Silver Hugo
30th Chicago Intl. Film Festival · Through the Olive Trees
Golden Spike
39th Valladolid Intl. Film Festival · Through the Olive Trees
Pier Paolo Pasolini Award
Pasolini Foundation, Rome · Career
Award of Best Director
8th Singapore Intl. Film Festival · Through the Olive Trees
Lifetime Achievement Award
Festa del Cinema, Rome
Officier de la Légion d'honneur
Ministry of Culture, France
Palme d'Or
50th Cannes Film Festival · Taste of Cherry
Federico Fellini Gold Medal
UNESCO · Career
Vittorio De Sica Memorial Award
De Sica Foundation · Career
Best Film of the Year
Time Magazine · Taste of Cherry
Best Foreign Film
National Society of Film Critics · Taste of Cherry
Jury Special Prize
56th Venice Film Festival · The Wind Will Carry Us
FIPRESCI Award
56th Venice Film Festival · The Wind Will Carry Us
Honorary Golden Alexander
40th Thessaloniki Film Festival · Career
Most Outstanding Filmmaker of the '90s
Cinematheque Ontario
Akira Kurosawa Prize
43rd San Francisco Film Festival · Lifetime Achievement
Best Filmmaker of the '90s
Film Comment Poll
Lifetime Achievement Award
3rd Beirut Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award
25th Cairo Film Festival
Konrad Wolf Prize
Academy of Arts, Berlin
BFI Fellowship
British Film Institute
Gold Leopard of Honor
Locarno Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award
2nd Reykjavík Film Festival
Honorary Award
Marrakech Film Festival
World's Great Masters
Kolkata Intl. Film Festival
Jaam-e Jahan-Nama Award
Iranian Short Film Association
Espiga de Oro
Valladolid Intl. Film Festival · Certified Copy
Best Actress (Juliette Binoche)
63rd Cannes Film Festival · Certified Copy
CineMerit Award
Munich Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award
5th Batumi Film Festival
Best Foreign Language Film
San Francisco Film Critics · Certified Copy
42nd Greatest Film of All Time
Sight & Sound Poll · Close-Up
Lifetime Achievement in Art
51st Antalya Golden Orange Festival
Asian Filmmaker of the Year
Busan Intl. Film Festival
Tomas Gutierrez Alea Award
Assoc. of Cuban Writers
Jean Renoir Award
Writers Guild of America · Screenwriting Achievement
Special Prize
14th Eurasia Film Festival