The nominees for the Best Theme Song of a film or TV series at the 20th Hafez Cinema and Television Awards (World of Image Festival) have been announced.
According to Music of Iran News, this year’s Hafez Awards selected the best theme songs from works released or broadcast between Nowruz 2019 and Nowruz 2020.
The nominees in this category are as follows:
- The Last Tale (Shahram Nazeri) – Song: The Last Tale; Composer: Farid Elhami
- Forgotten (Reza Yazdani) – Song: Eshghat (Your Love); Lyricist: Mehdi Ayubi; Composer: Milad Babaei
- Brother Jaan (Salar Aghili) – Song: Brother Jaan; Lyricist: Hossein Ghiasi; Composer: Farid Saadatmand
- Suppression (Alireza Ghorbani) – Song: Suppression; Poem: Houshang Ebtehaj; Composer: Arash Gooran
- Blue Whale (Sirvan Khosravi & Kaveh Yaghmaei) – Song: You Are Not in My Place; Lyricists: Zaniar Khosravi & Hadi Zeinati; Composers: Zaniar & Sirvan Khosravi
- Mannequin (Farzad Farzin) – Song: Mannequin; Lyricist & Composer: Farzad Farzin
Additionally, in the television section of the 20th Hafez Awards, the name of Arash Abbasi, writer of the series Paytakht 6, was mistakenly omitted. The organizers have apologized and corrected this oversight.
It should be noted that the Hafez Awards, the only private festival in Iran dedicated to cinema and television, were held online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with winners announced on August 15, 2020.
Source: Music of Iran News (musiceiranian.ir)