International Film Festival, Australia 1995 Pier Paolo Pasolini Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami from Pier Paolo Pasolini Foundation, Rome 1995 Director of the Year, the Variety International Film Guide, 1996 Officier de la Légion d'honneur from Ministry of Culture and Art of France, 1996 Palme d'Or for Best Film for Taste of Cherry at the 50th Cannes International Film Festival, France 1997 Special award of Feast of Cinema for Abbas Kiarostami at the 2nd Feast of Cinema, Tehran 1997 Special Prize of Festival for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 27th Giffoni International Film Festival, Italy 1997 Vittorio De Sica Memorial Award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami from Vittorio De Sica Foundation, Italy 1997 Federico Fellini Gold Medal (UNESCO Special award for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami from UNESCO, France 1997) Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Film of the Year by Time magazine in 1997 Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Foreign Film of the Year by Society of Film Critics of Boston, USA 1998 Taste of Cherry selected as the Best Foreign Film of the Year by the National Society of Film Critics, USA 1998 Special Prize of Masters for Abbas Kiarostami at the 18th Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey 1999 Jury Special Prize for The Wind Will Carry Us at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, Italy 1999 FIPRESCI Award for The Wind Will Carry Us at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, Italy 1999 The Youth Prize of Future Cinema for The Wind Will Carry Us at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, Italy 1999 Golden Plaque of Panorama of European Cinema for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Athens, Greece 1999 Special Prize for Film career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 21st Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival, France 1999 Honorary Golden Alexander Prize for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami at the 40th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece 1999 Selected as the Most Outstanding Filmmaker of '90s at the Polling of Cinematheque Ontario, Canada 2000 Honorary Prize of the 18th Fajr International Film festival for Film Career of Abbas Kiarostami, Tehran, Iran 2000 The Best Filmmaker of '90s, Film Comment Poll, USA 2000 Plaque of First Human Rights Declaration of the University of California at Berkeley, USA 2000 The Golden Dolphin of Kish Island for Lifetime Achievement in Cinema, Iran 2000 Akira Kurosawa Honorary Award of the 43rd San Francisco International