5th Hafez Awards 2001

Best Motion Picture

1. Baran
2. Killing Mad Dogs
3. Under the Moonlight
4. Bachehaye bad
5. The Longest Night

Best Director – Motion Picture

1. Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Kandahar
2. Kiumars Pourahmad – The Longest Night
3. Reza Mirkarimi – Under the Moonlight
4. Bahram Beyzai – Killing Mad Dogs
5. Majid Majidi – Baran

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture (both original and adapted)

1. Reza Mirkarimi – Under the Moonlight
2. Bahram Beyzai – Killing Mad Dogs
3. Majid Majidi – Baran
4. Kiumars Pourahmad – The Longest Night
5. Reza Davood Nejad – Bachehaye bad

Best Actor – Motion Picture (2 awards)

1. Dariush Arjmand – Killing Mad Dogs
2. Jamshid Hashempour – Traveller of Rey (Mosafere rey)
3. Hossein Abedini – Baran
4. Mehran Rajabi – Under the Moonlight
5. Bahram Radan – Swan Song
6. Ali Vajed Samii – Behesht az ane to
7. Fariborz Arabnia – Seven Acts
8. Parviz Parastui – Moje mordeh
9. Atila Pesyani – Water and Fire
10. Mohammad Reza Foroutan – The Longest Night

Best Actress– Motion Picture (2 awards)

1. Leila Hatami – Water and Fire
2. Zahra Davood Nejad – Bachehaye bad
3. Poopak Goldarreh – Dead Wave (Moje mordeh)
4. Soghra Obeisi – The Hidden Half
5. Mozhdeh Shamsai – Killing Mad Dogs
6. Mahaya Petrosian – Seven Acts
7. Shaghayegh Farahani – An Umbrella for Two
8. Ghogha Bayat – The Hidden Half
9. Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy – Under the Moonlight
10. Niki Karimi – The Hidden Half

Best Cinematography – Motion Picture

1. Rasool Ahadi – Shrapnel in Peace
2. Jamshid Alvandi – Behesht az ane to
3. Homayun Payvar – Seven Acts
4. Asghar Rafie Jam – Killing Mad Dogs
5. Mohammad Davudi – Baran

Best Editor – Motion Picture

1. Hassan Hassandoost – Baran
2. Mohammad Reza Mouyini – The Party
3. Mostafa Kherghepoosh – Bachehaye bad
4. Bahram Dehghan – Akhar-e Bazi
5. Kiumars Pourahmad – The Longest Night

Production Design & Costume

1. Mohsen Shah Ebrahimi, Amir Esbati – – Traveller of Rey (Mosafere rey)
2. Hamid Ghadirian – Saint Mary
3. Behzad Kazazi – Baran
4. Reza Torabi – Under the Moonlight
5. Iraj Raminfar – Killing Mad Dogs

Best Original Score

1. Ahmad Pejman – Baran
2. Mohammad Reza Aligholi – Under the Moonlight
3. Peyman Yazdanian – Going By
4. Bahman Sepehri Shakib – Behesht az ane to
5. Akbar Meshkat, Peyman Mir Ali Akbari – Bachehaye bad

Best Sound

1. Baran – Yadollah Najafi, Mohammad Reza Delpak
2. Behesht az ane to – Bahman Ardalan, Fardin Sahebzamani, Keyvan Jahan Shahi
3. The Party – Eshagh Khanzadi
4. The Hidden Half – Parviz Abnar, Masoud Behnam
5. The Longest Night – Parviz Abnar, Masoud Behnam

Glorification of  10 Directors (1991-2001)

1. ‌Bahram Beyzai – Travellers
2. Dariush Mehrjui – The Pear Tree, Leila
3. Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Once upon a Time, Cinema
4. Ebrahim Hatamikia – The Glass Agency, From Karkheh to Rhein
5. Rasoul Mollagholipour – Safar be Chazabeh
6. Majid Majidi – Children of Heaven, The Color of Paradise
7. Kianoush Ayari – To Be or Not to Be
8. Abbas Kiarostami – Through the Olive Trees, Taste of Cherry
9. Rakhshān Banietemad – Nargess, Under the Skin of the City
10. Behrouz Afkhami – Hemlock