Abbas Kiarostami: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born	June 22, 1940 • Tehran • Iran
Died	July 4, 2016 (aged 76) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors	Praemium Imperiale (2004)
Notable Works	“ABC Africa” • “Certified Copy” • “Nan va kucheh” • “Ten”

Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.

Martin Scorsese

American filmmaker

Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background.

Francis Ford Coppola

American director and screenwriter

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

Swedish screenwriter and director

Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat

Iranian-born American artist

Kurosawa Akira

Kurosawa Akira

Japanese film director

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

French Swiss film director

Tom Stoppard wearing a dark suit, blue checkered shirt, and green tie, looking at the camera against a dark background.

Tom Stoppard

Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter

default image

Ken Loach

British director

Peter Brook

Peter Brook

English producer-director

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda

Polish director and screenwriter

default image

Richard Attenborough

English actor, director, and producer

John Gielgud

John Gielgud

British actor and director

Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi

Iranian director and screenwriter

Builder of Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Iranian artist and writer

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi smiling and wearing a black suit and tie at a formal event in 2016.

Asghar Farhadi

Iranian director

default image

Tony Scott

British film director

default image

Harold Ramis

American actor, writer, and director

default image

Mani Kaul

Indian filmmaker

default image

Roy Ward Baker

British director

default image

David Maysles

American documentary filmmaker