Majid Majidi Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Family, Wiki & More
| BIRTHDAY | 17 April, 1959 |
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| BIRTH PLACE | Tehran |
| COUNTRY | Iran |
| AGE (2019) | 60 Years Old |
| BIRTH SIGN | Aries |
| HEIGHT | in centimeters- 173 cm in meters- 1.73 m in Feet Inches- 5’ 8” |
| WEIGHT | in Kilograms- 77 kg in Pounds- 169.76 lbs |
Other Professions :
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Majid Majidi Age, Birthday Facts and Birthday Countdown
60 years, 1 month, 4 days old age. Majid Majidi will turn 61 on 17 April, 2020. Only 10 months, 26 days, 14 hours, 2 minutes has left for his next birthday.
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Short Biography Edit
Majid Majidi was born on 17-04-1959 in the state of Tehran, Iran. He is an Iranian Film Director, Film Producer & Screenwriter.
Majid Majidi Complete Bio & Career
He started acting in amateur theatre groups at the age of fourteen. After receiving his high school diploma, he started studying art at the Institute of Dramatic Art in Tehran. After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, his interest in cinema brought him to act in various films, notably Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Boycott where he played a frustrated communist and Ali Azghar Shadaravan's Teer baran in 1986 where he played the role of real-life character, Andarzgoo.
Later, he started writing and directing short films. His feature film screenwriting and directing debut is marked by Baduk in 1992, which was presented at the Quinzaine of Cannes and won awards at Tehran's Fajr Film Festival. Since then, he has written and directed many noteworthy films that won worldwide recognitions, notably Children of Heaven, winner of the Best Picture award at the Montreal International Film Festival and nominated for the Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, The Color of Paradise, which also won the Best Picture award from Montreal International Film Festival and set a new record of box office for an Asian film, and Baran, which won several major awards worldwide, notably the Best Picture award at the 25th Montreal World Film Festival and received nomination for the European Film Academy Award.
In 2001, during the Afghanistan anti-Taliban war, he produced Barefoot to Herat, an emotional documentary about Afghanistan's refugee camps that won the Fipresci Award at Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Majjid Majid has also received the Douglas Sirk Award in 2001 and the Amici Vittorio de Sica Award in 2003. In 2005, he directed The Willow Tree about a blind man who falls in love with someone other than his wife when he gets the chance to see again, which won four awards at the 2005 Fajr Film Festival in Tehran. He is one of Iran's most influential directors and his films have a simple and poetic feel to them.
