3rd Hafez Awards 1999

Best Motion Picture

1. The Color of Paradise
2. Sweet Agony
3. Two Women
4. The Red Ribbon

Best Director – Motion Picture

1. Majid Majidi – The Color of Paradise
2. Alireza Davoodnejad – Sweet Agony
3. Ebrahim Hatamikia – The Red Ribbon
4. Tahmineh Milani – Two Women

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture (both original and adapted)

1. ‌Tahmineh Milani – Two Women
2. Ebrahim Hatamikia – The Red Ribbon
3. Majid Majidi – The Color of Paradise
4. Fereydoun Farhoodi, Peyman
5. Ghasemkhani – The Girl in the Sneakers

Best Actor – Motion Picture (2 awards)

1. Hossein Mahjoub – The Color of Paradise
2. Parviz Parastui – The Red Ribbon
3. Jamshid Hashempour – Heeva
4. Mohammad Reza Foroutan – Ghermez
5. Atila Pesyani – Two Women

Best Actress– Motion Picture (2 awards)

1. Hedieh Tehrani – Ghermez
2. Leila Hatami – Sheida
3. Pegah Ahangarani – The Girl in the Sneakers
4. Azita Hajian – The Red Ribbon
5. Niki Karimi – Two Women

Best Cinematography – Motion Picture

1. Mohammad Davudi – The Color of Paradise
2. Hossein Jafarian – Two Women
3. Bahram Badakhshani – Heeva
4. Hasan Pouya – The Red Ribbon

Best Editor – Motion Picture

1. Hayedeh Safiyari – The Red Ribbon
2. Kiumars Pourahmad – Sweet Agony
3. Mostafa Kherghepoosh – Two Women, The Girl in the Sneakers

Production Design & Costume

1. Parviz Sheikh Tadi – The Red Ribbon
2. Ali Fadakar, Behnaz Nazi – Heeva
3. Asghar Nezhad Imani – The Color of Paradise
4. Mohsen Shah Ebrahimi – The Ugly and the Beautiful

Best Sound

1. Bahman Ardalan – Heeva
2. Mohammad Reza Delpak
3. Eshagh Khanzadi – Sweet Agony