# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kyanoush-ayari
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:20:57.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kyanoush-ayari"
name: "Kyanoush Ayari"
slug: "kyanoush-ayari"
description: "Kianoush Ayari is an Iranian director and screenwriter. He is famous for his realistic style and unique stories like heart transplantation in his movie To Be or Not to Be (1998) or fate of a teacher after the horrible Bam earthquake in Wake Up, Arezoo! (2005). He has received various accolades, including four Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award, two Iran Cinema Celebration Awards and three Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards."
tagline: "Iranian film director and film editor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kianoosh_Ayari_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.48
  momentum:             1.080432172869148
  historical:           5.999789333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043668/"
    handle:    "nm0043668"
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B4_%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B4_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "كيانوش ايارى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8C%E0%A6%9A_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%80"
    title: "কিয়ানৌচ আয়াৰী"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kianoush_Ayari"
    title: "Kianoush Ayari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B4_%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "کیانوش عیاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyanoush_Ayari"
    title: "Kyanoush Ayari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kianoush_Ayari"
    title: "Kianoush Ayari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3200884"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump