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Osamah Sami
أسامة سامي
Born
Qom, Iran
Occupation(s)
Actor, writer, comedian
Notable work
Good Muslim Boy (book) Ali's Wedding (film)
Awards
AACTA Award Film Critics Circle of Australia Award Australian Muslim Achievement Award Sydney Indie Film Festival Award NSW Premier's Literary Award. Australian Writers' Guild Award Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Award
Osamah Sami is an Australian stage and screen actor, writer, and stand-up comedian, born in Iran of Iraqi origin. He is known for his book Good Muslim Boy, and the film Ali's Wedding.
Good Muslim Boy, was the winner of the 2016 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award,[1] and was commended at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards that same year.[2]
Sami co-wrote and starred in Ali's Wedding, which was acquired by Netflix. His work earned him an Australian Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as a nomination for Best Lead Actor.[3] This was mirrored at the 2018 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards in 2018, where it won Best Script, and Sami was nominated for Best Male Lead.[4] His script also received an Australian Writers' Guild Award in the Best Original Film category.[5] The film won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival,[6] and was the winner of The Age Critics Prize at Melbourne International Film Festival.[7] Ali's Wedding was also awarded the $100,000 CinefestOz film prize in 2017.[8]
Osamah has also been nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Male Performer in a Lead Role for Melbourne Theatre Company's I Call My Brothers.[9]
^"2016 - Multicultural NSW Award". State Library of NSW. 23 March 2016.
^"Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2016". The Wheeler Centre.
^"Winners & Nominees". www.aacta.org. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
^"Film Critics Association of Australia | 2017 Awards". fcca.com.au. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
^"AWGIE Awards Winners List" (PDF).
^"Sydney Film Festival - Foxtel Movies Audience Award". www.sff.org.au. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
^Quinn, Karl (14 August 2017). "MIFF 2017: Ali's Wedding wins The Age Critics Award". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
^"Ali's Wedding wins CinefestOz". Community News. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
^"Page not found – The Green Room Awards". {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
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