1. Khosrow Shakibai has received various accolades, including three Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award, two Iran Cinema Celebration Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.
10 Facts About Khosrow Shakibai
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Khosrow Shakibai was born to Colonel Ahmad Shakibai and Ms Farideh Khatami.
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Khosrow Shakibai's father, who was an army Colonel, died from cancer when Khosrow was only fourteen.
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Khosrow Shakibai began his stage career in 1963 and branched out his activities into film dubbing in 1968.
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Khosrow Shakibai had played in seven feature films when the film director Dariush Mehrjui offered him the title role of Hamoun, a film that over time has achieved a cult status.
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Khosrow Shakibai won a Crystal Phoenix for Kimia directed by Ahmad Reza Darvish.
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Khosrow Shakibai found a considerable following for his voice, brought about through publication of the recordings of his readings of poems by contributors to modern Persian poetry including Forough Farrokhzad and Sohrab Sepehri.
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Khosrow Shakibai is credited for helping to raise the stature of performing arts in Iran by the end of the 1980s, when the authorities in charge tended to neglect this area of cultural activities.
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Khosrow Shakibai died at 6 am on July 18,2008, of liver cancer in Parsian Hospital in Tehran.
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On Sunday, July 20,2008, the body of Khosrow Shakibai was laid to rest in The Artists Section of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in Tehran.