About Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films Where Is the Friend's House? (1987), Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of Iran, and of all time.
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Awards & Honors
Palme d'Or
Praemium Imperiale
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival
Konrad Wolf Prize
Officer of the Legion of Honour
honorary doctor of Ca' Foscari University of Venice
honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
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honorary doctorate from ENS
honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse-II
Annual award ACFK
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