Crystal Simorgh for Best Director is an award presented annually by the Fajr International Film Festival held in Iran. It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing.
Winners and nominees + Table key Winner of the Crystal Simorgh for Best Film
Year Director Film 19831 19842 19853 19864 19875 Where Is the Friend's Home? Captain Khorshid The Lodgers The Key 19886 Little Bird of Happiness 19897 The Cyclist The Marriage of the Blessed Eye of the Hurricane 19908 Hamoun The Immigrant Close-Up 19919 Apartment No.13 199210 Nargess Once Upon a Time, Cinema 199311 From Karkheh to Rhein Sara Actor 199412 199513 Pari The Fateful Day The Blue-Veiled 199614 Strange Sisters The Father Journey to Chazabeh Gabbeh 199715 Children of Heaven Leila 199816 The Glass Agency The Pear Tree 199917 The Red Ribbon Two Women The Color of Paradise 200018 Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine The Mix 200119 Baran Killing Mad Dogs Under the Moonlight 200220 I'm Taraneh, 15 Unruled Paper Low Heights To Stay Alive The Deserted Station 200321 Deep Breath Dancing in the Dust 200422 Duel Mum's Guest The Beautiful City 200523 The Willow Tree So Close, So Far Café Transit 200624 Fireworks Wednesday In the Name of the Father 200725 The Third Day Colors of Memory The Night Bus 200826 The Song of Sparrows As Simple as That 200927 About Elly Doubt Superstar 201028 In Amethyst Color Forty Years Old Gold and Copper The Kingdom of Solomon 201129 A Separation Beloved Sky Alzheimer The Maritime Silk Road 201230 Orange Suit The Queen Modest Reception 201331 Trapped Bending the Rules The Corridor 201432 Hussein Who Said No Che 201533 Crazy Rook I Am Diego Maradona 201634 Life and a Day Standing in the Dust Daughter 201735 No Date, No Signature Under the Smokey Roof Midday Adventures Negar 201836 The Lost Strait Damascus Time 201937 When the Moon Was Full The Warden Gholamreza Takhti Just 6.5 Castle of Dreams Midday Adventures: Trace of Blood 202038 Walnut Tree Day Zero Atabai Tooman The Sun Butterfly Stroke2021 39 Mehdi Jafari Narges AbyarPiebaldArsalan AmiriZalavaMohsen GharaieWithout Everything2022 40Reza MirkarimiThe Night GuardianHadi HejazifarThe Situation of MehdiAmir Hossein AsgariThe Last SnowKazem DaneshiGrasslandBehrouz ShoeibiNo Prior Appointment2023 41Mohammad Ali Bashe AhangarMetropol CinemaHossein MirzamohammadiThe Leather Jacket ManMohammad AsgariMud RoomHadi MohammadianBehnoud NekouieMohammad-Javad JannatiSmart KidBabak Khajeh PashaIn the Arms of the TreeHamid ZargarnejadNumber TenMohammad-Hossien LatifiThe Stranger2024 42Behrouz AfkhamiThe Morning of The ExecutionAli SaghafiParviz KhanMasoud Jafari JozaniParadise of CriminalsMehdi ShamohammadiMajnoonJavad EzzatiAligator BloodMahmoud KalariSummer Time
Most wins and nominations
+ Most nominations Nominations Director 12 Dariush Mehrjui 10 Ebrahim Hatamikia 8 Reza Mirkarimi 7 Majid Majidi 5 Mohsen Makhmalbaf Asghar Farhadi Alireza Davoodnejad 4 Ahmad-Reza Darvish Bahram Tavakoli Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian Masoud Jafari Jozani 3 Yadollah Samadi Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Bahram Beyzai Parviz Shahbazi Behrouz Afkhami
+ Most wins Wins Director 4 Majid Majidi 3 Ebrahim Hatamikia Asghar Farhadi 2 Dariush Mehrjui Reza Mirkarimi Ahmad Reza Darvish Kianoush Ayari
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