Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay
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Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay is an award presented annually by the Fajr International Film Festival held in Iran.
Awarded forThe Best Screenwriter(s)
CountryIran
Presented byFajr International Film Festival
First award1984
| Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | The Best Screenwriter(s) |
| Country | Iran |
| Presented by | Fajr International Film Festival |
| First award | 1984 |
| Currently held by | No Winner (2024) Ali Saghafi (Honorary Diploma) for Parviz Khan (2024) |
| Highlights | |
| Most wins | Kambuzia Partovi (4 times) |
| Most nominations | Dariush Mehrjui (9 times) |
| Honorary Diploma | Ebrahim Hatamikia (2 times) |
| Website | fajrfilmfestival |
Winners and nominees
Winner |
Winner of the Honorary Diploma |
| Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) | Ref.(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 1 |
Not awarded | [1] | |
| 1984 2 |
Award[a][b] | Alireza Davoodnejad and Ebrahim Makki | [3][4] |
| 1985 3 |
No Winner[a] | [5][6] | |
| 1986 4 |
The Grandfather[a][b] | Majid Gharizadeh | [7][8] |
| 1987 5 |
The Stony Lion[b] | Masoud Jafari Jozani | [9][10] |
| The Lodgers | Dariush Mehrjui | ||
| The Flight in the Night | Rasoul Mollagholipour | ||
| Where Is the Friend's Home? | Abbas Kiarostami | ||
| Manuscripts | Behrouz Afkhami | ||
| 1988 6 |
No Winner | [11][12] | |
| 1989 7 |
The Cyclist | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | [13][14] |
| The Willow Branches | Amrollah Ahmadjoo | ||
| Eye of the Hurricane | Masoud Jafari Jozani | ||
| The Scout | Ebrahim Hatamikia | ||
| Grand Cinema | Hassan Hedayat | ||
| Pomegranate and Cane | Saeed Ebrahimifar, Hossein Irie and Aziz Tarseh | ||
| 1990 8 |
Hamoun | Dariush Mehrjui | [15][16] |
| The Immigrant | Ebrahim Hatamikia | ||
| The Seeker | Esmaeel Khalaj, Mihan Bahrami and Mohammad Motevaselani | ||
| Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | ||
| Savalan | Yadollah Samadi | ||
| 1991 9 |
Apartment No.13 | Yadollah Samadi | [17][18] |
| The Last Act | Varuzh Karim-Masihi | ||
| The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | ||
| The Bride | Behrouz Afkhami and Alireza Davoodnejad | ||
| Portrait of Love | Shahriar Parsipour and Hadi Seif | ||
| 1992 10 |
The Quiet Home | Asghar Abdollahi and Hassan Gholizadeh | [19] |
| Baduk | Majid Majidi and Seyyed Mahdi Shojaee | ||
| The Hustler | Mehdi Fakhimzadeh | ||
| Nargess | Rakhshan Bani-Etemad | ||
| The Need | Aliakbar Ghazinezam | ||
| 1993 11 |
Sara | Dariush Mehrjui | [20][21] |
| From Karkheh to Rhein | Ebrahim Hatamikia | ||
| Remember the Flight | Nasser Tahmasb | ||
| Shadows of Assault | Ahmad Amini | ||
| Once for Ever | Sirus Alvand | ||
| 1994 12 |
Tic Tac | Mohammad-Ali Talebi and Houshang Moradi Kermani | [22][23] |
| The Last Reconnaissance | Behzad Behzadpour | ||
| The Child Hero | Aliakbar Ghazinezam | ||
| Tanker War | Mohammad Bozorgnia | ||
| The Spouse | Mehdi Fakhimzadeh | ||
| 1995 13 |
The Blue-Veiled | Rakhshan Bani-Etemad | [24][25] |
| Kimia | Ahmad-Reza Darvish | ||
| The White Balloon | Abbas Kiarostami | ||
| Pari | Dariush Mehrjui | ||
| Path of Glory | Mahmoud Dehghan and Reza Ghahremani | ||
| The Fateful Day | Bahram Beyzai | ||
| 1996 14 |
Leily Is with Me | Kamal Tabrizi and Reza Maghsoudi | [26][27] |
| The Father | Majid Majidi and Seyyed Mahdi Shojaee | ||
| The Derrick | Abdolhassan Barzideh | ||
| The Survivor | Seifollah Dad | ||
| 1997 15 |
Children of Heaven | Majid Majidi | [28][29] |
| Leila | Dariush Mehrjui | ||
| The Traveller from the South | Parviz Shahbazi | ||
| Shadow to Shadow | Ali Zhekan | ||
| 1998 16 |
The Glass Agency | Ebrahim Hatamikia | [30][31] |
| Takhti: The World Champion | Behrouz Afkhami | ||
| Birth of A Butterfly | Saeid Shapouri | ||
| The Tree of Life | Farhad Mehranfar | ||
| 1999 17 |
Two Women | Tahmineh Milani | [32][33] |
| Son of Maryam | Hamid Jebeli | ||
| Sweet Agony | Alireza Davoodnejad | ||
| Heeva | Rasoul Mollagholipour | ||
| The Fair & the Ugly | Ahmad-Reza Mo'tamedi | ||
| 2000 18 |
The Bride of Fire | Khosrow Sinai and Hamid Farrokhnezhad | [34][35] |
| Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine | Bahman Farmanara | ||
| Maturity | Masoud Jafari Jozani | ||
| The Child and the Soldier | Mohammad Rezaei-Rad | ||
| Whisper | Parviz Shahbazi | ||
| 2001 19 |
Killing Mad Dogs | Bahram Beyzai | [36][37] |
| Baran | Majid Majidi | ||
| 2002 20 |
I'm Taraneh, 15 | Kambuzia Partovi and Rasul Sadr-Ameli | [38][39] |
| To Stay Alive | Dariush Mehrjui and Vahideh Mohammadifar | ||
| The White Dream | Hamid Jebeli | ||
| A House Built on Water | Bahman Farmanara | ||
| Unruled Paper | Nasser Taghvai and Minoo Farshchi | ||
| The Poisonous Mushroom | Rasoul Mollagholipour | ||
| 2003 21 |
Deep Breath | Parviz Shahbazi | [40] |
| Look at the Sky Sometimes | Farhad Tohidi | ||
| Pink | Fereydoun Jeyrani | ||
| Hard Times in Khomein | Mojtaba Ra'i | ||
| Here, A Shining Light | Reza Mirkarimi | ||
| 2004 22 |
The Lizard | Peyman GhasemKhani | [41][42] |
| Ghadamgah | Mohammad Rezaei-Rad | ||
| The Beautiful City | Asghar Farhadi | ||
| Him | Rahbar Ghanbari | ||
| Tradition of Lover Killing | Khosrow Ma'sumi | ||
| Mum's Guest | Dariush Mehrjui, Houshang Moradi Kermani and Vahideh Mohammadifar | ||
| 2005 23 |
Café Transit | Kambuzia Partovi | [43][44] |
| A Place to Live | Mohammad Bozorgnia | ||
| Behind the Curtain of Fog | Parviz Sheikhtadi and Hossein Yadegari | ||
| We Are All Fine | Mozhgan Farah Avar Moghaddam | ||
| The Willow Tree | Majid Majidi, Fouad Nahas and Nasser Hashemzadeh | ||
| So Close, So Far | Reza Mirkarimi and Mohammad-Reza Gohari | ||
| 2006 24 |
No Winner | [45][46] | |
| In the Name of the Father | Ebrahim Hatamikia | ||
| Gradually… | Parviz Shahbazi | ||
| Fireworks Wednesday | Asghar Farhadi and Mani Haghighi | ||
| When All Were Asleep | Fereidoun Hassanpour | ||
| Friday Evening | Farid Mostafavi | ||
| 2007 25 |
Mainline | Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Farid Mostafavi, Mohsen Abdolvahab and Naghmeh Samini | [47] |
| The Third Day | Mehdi Sajjadehchi | ||
| 2008 26 |
As Simple as That | Shadmehr Rastin and Reza Mirkarimi | [48] |
| A Petition for Allah | Alireza Amini and Mohsen Tanabandeh | ||
| Standing Alone | Gholamreza Ramezani | ||
| The Song of Sparrows | Majid Majidi and Mehran Kashani | ||
| Wind Blows in the Meadow | Khosrow Ma'sumi | ||
| 2009 27 |
Motherland | Abolhassan Davoudi and Farid Mostafavi | [49] |
| About Elly | Asghar Farhadi | ||
| Doubt | Varuzh Karim-Masihi | ||
| Superstar | Tahmineh Milani | ||
| Karat 14 | Parviz Shahbazi | ||
| 2010 28 |
The Fateful Night | Homayoun Shahnavaz and Shahram Assadi | [50] |
| In Amethyst Color | Ebrahim Hatamikia | ||
| Forty Years Old | Mostafa Rastegari | ||
| Gold and Copper | Hamed Mohammadi | ||
| The Insider | Ahmad Kaveri | ||
| 2011 29 |
A Separation | Asghar Farhadi | [51][52] |
| Beloved Sky | Dariush Mehrjui and Vahideh Mohammadifar | ||
| Alzheimer | Ahmad-Reza Mo'tamedi | ||
| Crime | Masoud Kimiai | ||
| Facing Mirrors | Negar Azarbaijani and Fereshteh Taerpour | ||
| Mr. Yousef | Ali Rafi'i | ||
| Dragonfly's Pond | Alireza Talebzadeh | ||
| 2012 30 |
Bulletproof | Mostafa Kiayee | [53] |
| Kissing the Moon-Like Face | Homayoun Ass'adian | ||
| Days of Life | Parviz Sheikhtadi | ||
| The Queen | Mohammad-Reza Gohari and Mohammad-Ali Bashe-Ahangar | ||
| Orange Suit | Vahideh Mohammadifar and Dariush Mehrjui | ||
| 2013 31 |
Bending the Rules | Behnam Behzadi | [54][55] |
| Trapped | Parviz Shahbazi | ||
| The Corridor | Ali Asghari | ||
| Sinners | Sam Gharibian | ||
| Give Back | Alireza Talebzadeh | ||
| 2014 32 |
Azar, Shahdokht, Parviz and Others | Behrouz Afkhami | [56][57] |
| Raspberry | Saman Salur | ||
| Sensitive Floor | Peyman GhasemKhani | ||
| Special Line | Mostafa Kiayee | ||
| Snow | Hossein Mahkam | ||
| 2015 33 |
Time to Love | Roya Mohaghegh | [58][59] |
| The Long Farewell | Asghar Abdollahi | ||
| Crazy Rook | Mohammad-Reza Gohari | ||
| I Am Diego Maradona | Bahram Tavakoli | ||
| 2016 34 |
Life and A Day | Saeed Roustayi | [60][61] |
| Mina's Choice | Farhad Tohidi and Morteza Esfahani | ||
| When Did You See Sahar Last Time? | Amir Arabi | ||
| Daughter | Mehran Kashani | ||
| Standing in the Dust | Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian | ||
| 2017 35 |
Ferrari | Kambuzia Partovi | [62] |
| Villa Dwellers | Arsalan Amiri and Monir Gheydi | ||
| Blockage | Saeed Roustayi | ||
| No Date, No Signature | Vahid Jalilvand and Ali Zarnegar | ||
| Searing Summer | Payam Karami | ||
| 2018 36 |
Truck | Kambuzia Partovi | [63] |
| Sheeple | Houman Seyyedi | ||
| Bomb: A Love Story | Payman Maadi | ||
| Under Water Cypress | Mohammad-Ali Bashe-Ahangar and Hamed Bashe-Ahangar | ||
| Flaming | Hadi Moghadamdoost and Hamid Nematollah | ||
| 2019 37 |
Castle of Dreams | Mohsen Gharaie and Mohammad Davoudi | [64] |
| Swear | Mohsen Tanabandeh | ||
| The Warden | Nima Javidi | ||
| Talla | Parviz Shahbazi | ||
| When the Moon Was Full | Narges Abyar and Morteza Esfahani | ||
| 2020 38 |
The Sun | Majid Majidi and Nima Javidi | [65] |
| Day Zero | Saeid Malekan and Bahram Tavakoli | ||
| Butterfly Stroke | Mohammad Kart, Hossein Doumari and Pedram Pour-Amiri | ||
| The Ballad of A White Cow | Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moqadam and Mehrdad Kouroshnia | ||
| Bone Marrow | Ali Zarnegar | ||
| I'm Scared | Behnam Behzadi and Sahar Sakhaei | ||
| 2021 39 |
Zalava | Arsalan Amiri, Ida Panahandeh, Tahmineh Bahram | [66] |
| TiTi | Arsalan Amiri, Ida Panahandeh | ||
| Mom | Arash Anisi | ||
| 2022 40 |
Grassland | Kazem Daneshi | [67] |
| The Situation of Mehdi | Ebrahim Amini, Hadi Hejazifar | ||
| The Last Snow | Amir Hossein Asgari, Amir Mohammad Abdi, Seyyed Hassan Hosseini | ||
| The Night Guardian | Reza Mirkarimi, Mohammad Davoudi – The Night Guardian | ||
| No Prior Appointment | Farhad Tohidi, Mehdi Torab Beigi | ||
| 2023 41 |
In the Arms of the Tree | Babak Khajeh Pasha | [68] |
| Smart Kid | Ali Ramezan | ||
| Number Ten | Hamid Zargarnejad | ||
| The Leather Jacket Man | Masoud Hasheminejad | ||
| Metropol Cinema | Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar, Hamed Bashe Ahangar | ||
| My Name is Love | Pedram Pour-Amiri, Hossein Doumari | ||
| 2024 42 |
No Winner | [69] | |
| Parviz Khan | Ali Saghafi | ||
| The Morning of The Execution | Behrouz Afkhami | ||
| Summer Time | Mahmoud Kalari | ||
Most wins and nominations
| Nominations | Director |
|---|---|
| 9 | Dariush Mehrjui |
| 7 | Parviz Shahbazi |
| Majid Majidi | |
| 6 | Ebrahim Hatamikia |
| 5 | Behrouz Afkhami |
| 4 | Asghar Farhadi |
| Vahideh Mohammadifar | |
| Kambuzia Partovi | |
| 3 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| Alireza Davoodnejad | |
| Masoud Jafari Jozani | |
| Rasoul Mollagholipour | |
| Rakhshan Bani-Etemad | |
| Farid Mostafavi | |
| Reza Mirkarimi | |
| Mohammad-Reza Gohari |
| Wins | Director |
|---|---|
| 4 | Kambuzia Partovi |
| 2 | Dariush Mehrjui |
| Rakhshan Bani-Etemad | |
| Farid Mostafavi | |
| Majid Majidi |
Crystal Simorgh for Best Adapted Screenplay
Crystal Simorgh for Best Adapted Screenplay
  | |
|---|---|
| Country | Iran |
| Presented by | Fajr International Film Festival |
| First award | 2009 |
| Currently held by | Mohammad Davoudi and Mohsen Gharaie for Without Everything (2021) |
| Website | fajrfilmfestival |
Crystal Simorgh for Best Adapted Screenplay is an award which established in 2006[70] but only awarded four times in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2021. Nominations of this award were not announced.
Winners
Winner |
Winner of the Honorary Diploma |
| Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) | Source Material(s) | Ref.(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 24 |
No Winner | [46] | ||
| The Persian Prince | Mohammad Nourizad | The epic Battle of Rostam and Esfandiyār from Shahnameh | ||
| 2009 27 |
Doubt | Varuzh Karim-Masihi | Hamlet by William Shakespeare | [71] |
| 2010 28 |
Forty Years Old | Mostafa Rastegari | The novel by Nahid Tabatabaei | [50] |
| 2012 30 |
The Last Step | Ali Mosaffa | The short story "The Dead" in Dubliners by James Joyce and the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy |
[53] |
| 2021 39 |
Without Everything | Mohammad Davoudi, Mohsen Gharaie | Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play The Visit | [66] |
| Once Upon a Time, Abadan | Hamid Reza Azarang | Based on a Play | ||
| Yadoo | Mehdi Jafari, Mahin Abbas Zadeh | Samad Taheri's eleven short stories ''The Lion Wound'' | ||
Notes
- Nominations for 1983–1986 are not available.
- Crystal Simorgh statuette awarded from 7th FIFF on 1989.[2]