Crystal Simorgh of Special Jury Prize

Crystal Simorgh of Special Jury Prize
Country	Iran
Presented by	Fajr International Film Festival
First award	1984
Currently held by	Ghorbanali Taherfar for Projectionist (2024)
Most wins	Dariush Mehrjui (3) Alireza Davoodnejad (3)
Website	fajrfilmfestival.com

Crystal Simorgh of Special Jury Prize is an award presented annually by the Fajr International Film Festival held in Iran.

Winners

Table key

Winner

Winner of the Honorary Diploma

Year	Film	Winner(s)	for	N.	Notes	Ref.(s)
1984 2	Land of Lovers [a]	Ministry of Islamic Guidance	Film	—	—	[2]
1986 4	First Graders [a]	IIDCYA	Film	—	—
	The Spring  [ fa ] [a]	IRIB TV1	Film	—	—
1987 5	Where Is the Friend's Home? [a]	Alireza Zarrin  [ fa ]	Film	Yes	—	[3]
1988 6	Kani-Manga [a]	Abdollah Bakideh  [ fa ]	Film	—	—	[4]
	Little Bird of Happiness [a]	Sirous Taslimi  [ fa ]	Film	—	—
	Little Bird of Happiness [a]	Atieh Masoumi  [ fa ]	Juvenile	—	—
1989 7	The Scout	Ebrahim Hatamikia	Director	No	—	[5]
	Pomegranate and Cane  [ fa ]	Saeed Ebrahimifar  [ fa ]	Director	No	—
1990 8	Hamoun	Dariush Mehrjui and Haroun Yashayaei	Film	Yes	—	[6]
	Close-Up	Alireza Zarrin  [ fa ]	Film	Yes	—
1991 9	Portrait of Love  [ fa ]	Shahrokh Dastour-Tabar	Film	Yes	—	[7]
1992 10	Travellers  [ fa ]	Bahram Beyzai , Khosro Khosravi, Majid Roudiani and Abbas Sheikhzadeh	Film	Yes	—	[8]
1993 11	Shame  [ fa ]	Kiumars Pourahmad	Director	No	—	[9]
1994 12	The Epic of Majnun  [ fa ]	Jamal Shurjeh  [ fa ]	Director	Yes	—	[10]
	Tic Tac  [ fa ]	Mohammad-Ali Talebi  [ fa ]	Director	No	—
1995 13	Kimia  [ fa ]	Pakhshiran	Film	Yes	—	[11]
1996 14	The Survivor	Manouchehr Mohammadi , Manouchehr Asgarinasab  [ fa ] and Seifollah Dad	Film	Yes	—	[12]
1997 15	Land of the Sun  [ fa ]	Farabi Cinema Foundation  [ fa ]	Film	Yes	—	[13]
1998 16	The May Lady  [ fa ]	Rakhshan Bani-Etemad	Director	Yes	—	[14]
1999 17	Sweet Agony  [ fa ]	Alireza Davoodnejad and Ali Vajed-Samii  [ fa ]	Film	No	—	[15]
2000 18	Maturity  [ fa ]	Masoud Jafari Jozani , Fathollah Jafari Jozani and Abbas Haghighi  [ fa ]	Film	No	—	[16]
2001 19	Under the Moonlight	Manouchehr Mohammadi	Film	Yes	—	[17]
2002 20	The Exam  [ fa ]	Nasser Refaei  [ fa ]	Director	Yes	—	[18]
	Unruled Paper	Nasser Taghvai	Director	Yes	—
2003 21	The Wind Carpet	Kamal Tabrizi	Director	No	—	[19]
2004 22	The Lizard	Parviz Parastui	Actor	Yes	—	[20]
	A Trilogy (Third episode)  [ fa ]	Rakhshan Bani-Etemad	Director	No	—
2005 23	A Piece of Bread  [ fa ]	Kamal Tabrizi	Director	No	—	[21]
2006 24	Friday Evening  [ fa ]	Mona Zandi Haghighi	Director	Yes	—	[22]
	Rival Wife  [ fa ]	Alireza Davoodnejad	Director	No	—
	How Much You Want to Cry?  [ fa ]	Shahed Ahmadloo  [ fa ]	Director	No	—
2007 25	Not awarded
2008 26	—	Alireza Zarrindast	—	—	"for technical and artistic lifetime achievements"	[23]
2009 27	Karat 14  [ fa ]	Parviz Shahbazi	Film	No	—	[24]
2010 28	40 Years Old  [ fa ]	Alireza Raisian  [ fa ]	Director	Yes	—	[25]
	Gold and Copper	Homayoun Ass'adian  [ fa ]	Director	Yes	—
2011 29	Beloved Sky	Dariush Mehrjui	Director	Yes	—	[26]
2012 30	Orange Suit	Dariush Mehrjui	Director	Yes	—	[27]
2013 31	Actors Studio  [ fa ]	Alireza Davoodnejad	Director	Yes	—	[28]
2014 32	Hard Makeup  [ fa ]	Hamid Nematollah  [ fa ]	Director	Yes	—	[29]
	Track 143	Narges Abyar	Director	No	—
2015 33	—	Javad Norouzbeigi  [ fa ]	—	—	"for producing of I Am Diego Maradona , Confessions of My Dangerous Mind  [ fa ] and Avalanche  [ fa ]"	[30]
	—	Niki Karimi	—	—	"for directing and producing of Night Shift  [ fa ], and acting in the Death of the Fish  [ fa ] and Wednesday, May 9 "
2016 34	Standing in the Dust	Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian	Director	Yes	—	[31]
	The Sound and the Fury  [ fa ]	Houman Seyyedi	Director	No	—
2017 35	Ferrari  [ fa ]	Alireza Davoodnejad	Director	Yes	—	[32]
2018 36	Bomb: A Love Story	Payman Maadi	Director	Yes	—	[33]
2019 37	The Warden	Nima Javidi	Director	Yes	—	[34]
2020 38	Day Zero	Saeid Malekan	Director	Yes	—	[35]
	Sun Children	Rouhollah Zamani, Shamila Shirzad, Abolfazl Shirzad, Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Mousavifard	Ensemble cast	No	—
2021 39	Without Everything	Javad Norouzbeigi	Film	Yes	—
2022 40	The Last Snow	Amir Hossein Asgari	Director	Yes	—
2023 41	Mud Room	Davoud Sabouri	Film	Yes	—	[36]
2024 42	Projectionist	Ghorbanali Taherfar	Director	Yes	—	[37]

Notes

1. Crystal Simorgh statuette awarded from 7th FIFF on 1989. ^[1]

References

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24. "تردید بهترین فیلم جشنواره بیست و هفتم شد" [Doubt honored as the best film of 27th Festival] (in Persian). Mehr News Agency. 11 February 2009.
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33. "جوایز اهدا شده در جشنواره فیلم فجر - دوره سی و ششم" [36th Fajr Film Festival - Awards of Festival]. Iranian Movie Database (SourehCinema) (in Persian). Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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