77th int’l accolade for auteur Kiarostami on his 77th birth anniversary
Prominent Iranian helmer, the late Abbas Kiarostami, whose ‘Taste of Cherry’ won the top prize in Cannes in 1997, will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at the 11th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) in Brisbane today. The award will be his 77th international prize and will coincide with his 77th birth anniversary, IRNA wrote.
The multi-award-winning Iranian director received three international prizes before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and 74 after it.
He has received 42 awards for his movies and 35 as lifetime achievement awards. In the last decade of his life, he was not keen on taking part in the competition section of festivals.
He received the first international award for his film ‘The Experience’ in 1974.
For his remarkable vision in his last movie ‘24 Frames’, the organizers will commend Kiarostami with a special Artistic Acknowledgement, and the APSA Academy confers a posthumous Academy membership on him.
Celebrated Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami who received international recognition for ‘Certified Copy’, ‘Taste of Cherry’, ‘Through the Olive Trees’ and ‘Where Is Friend’s Home’, died in July 2016.
Kiarostami is known for his minimalist approach in film, which means more poetry and less dialogue, and these were his special contributions in shaping Iranian cinema.