List of Iranian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Iranian Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Iranian filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, shortlisted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.

Best Supporting Actress

Actress in a Supporting Role
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2003	Shohreh Aghdashloo	House of Sand and Fog	Nominated	First Iranian to be nominated for an acting award.

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2012	Asghar Farhadi	A Separation	Nominated	First time that a screenplay entirely written in an Asian language (Persian) is nominated for Original Screenplay.

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Adapted From	Status	Milestone / Notes
1998	Hossein Amini	The Wings of the Dove	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James	Nominated	First Asian nominated in this category.
2020/21	Ramin Bahrani	The White Tiger	The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga	Nominated

Best Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1997	Darius Khondji	Evita	Nominated
2022		Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths	Nominated

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1970	Ray Aghayan	Gaily, Gaily	Nominated	First Iranian to nominate for an Academy Award.
1973		Lady Sings the Blues	Nominated	First Iranian to nominate for an Academy Award twice.
1976		Funny Lady	Nominated	First Iranian to nominate for an Academy Award thrice.

Best Sound Editing

Sound Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2007	Kami Asgar	Apocalypto	Nominated	First and only Middle Eastern person nominated for Sound Editing.

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1997	Habib Zargarpour	Twister	Nominated	Nominated with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier and Henry LaBounta.
2001		The Perfect Storm	Nominated	Nominated with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier, Walt Conti.

Best Animated Feature

Animated Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2008	Marjane Satrapi	Persepolis	Nominated	Shared nomination with Vincent Paronnaud

Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Iranian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Best International Feature Film
Year	Film	Director	Status	Milestone / Notes
1999	Children of Heaven (بچه های آسمان)	Majid Majidi	Nominated
2012	A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین)	Asghar Farhadi	Won	First Iranian movie to win an Oscar.
2017	The Salesman (فروشنده)		Won
2025	The Seed of the Sacred Fig (دانه‌ی انجیر معابد)	Mohammad Rasoulof	Nominated	The film was submitted by Germany.

Best Documentary Short Subject

Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2019	Rayka Zehtabchi	Period. End of Sentence.	Won	Iranian-American Shared with Melissa Berton.

Best Short Film Live Action

Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2000	Mehdi Norowzian	Killing Joe	Nominated	Nominated as Director; Shares nomination with producer, Steve Wax
2015	Talkhon Hamzavi	Parvaneh	Nominated	Nominated as Director; Shares nomination with producer, Stefan Eichenberger
2022	Cyrus Neshvad	The Red Suitcase	Nominated

Best Short Film Animated

Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2009	Emud Mokhberi	Oktapodi	Nominated	Nominated as Director; Shares nomination with co-director Thierry Marchand,
2023	Yegane Moghaddam	Our Uniform	Nominated
2024	Shirin Sohani Hossein Molayemi	In the Shadow of the Cypress	Won

Nominations and Winners

No. of wins	No. of nominations
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See also

• Iran portal

• List of Iranian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Cinema of Iran
• List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees