{{Short description|Bangladeshi film director}} {{infobox person | name = Sheikh Niamat Ali | image = Sheikh Niamat Ali.jpg | occupation = Film director | birth_date = {{birth date|1940|4|30|df=y}} | birth_place = 24 Parganas, Bengal Presidency, British India | death_date = {{death date and age|2003|11|24|1940|4|30|df=y}} | death_place = Dhaka, Bangladesh | alma_mater = Calcutta University }} '''Sheikh Niamat Ali''' (30 April 1940 – 24 November 2003)<ref name=homage>{{cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2003/12/11/d31211140193.htm |title=Homage to Salahuddin and Sheikh Niamat Ali, filmmakers : Bangladesh loses two great exponents of film art |author=Sabbir Chowdhury |date=December 11, 2003 |access-date=January 11, 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> was a Bangladeshi film director.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=12879 |title=Sheikh Niamat Ali |date=November 24, 2007 |access-date=January 11, 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director in 1979, 1985, and 1995 for all the three feature films he ever made - ''Surja Dighal Bari'', ''Dahan,'' and ''Anyajiban'' respectively.<ref name=homage/><ref name=nfa>{{cite web |url=http://www.fdc.gov.bd/site/page/f3bb17fe-d9ad-4b61-bd8a-5824262691ad/১৯৭৫-২০১২ |script-title=bn:জাতীয় চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার প্রাপ্তদের নামের তালিকা (১৯৭৫-২০১২) |language=bn |trans-title=List of the winners of National Film Awards (1975-2012) |access-date=25 March 2019 |publisher=Bangladesh Film Development Corporation |work=Government of Bangladesh}}</ref>
==Career== In 1977, Ali and his co-director Masihuddin Shaker started shooting the film ''Surja Dighal Bari''. The film was based on a novel by Abu Ishaque about the rural people in the 1950s. It won five international awards, including the Mannheim Film Festival and the Portugal Film Society.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/06/13/d506131404116.htm |title=Did you know? |date=June 13, 2005 |access-date=January 11, 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> It was the first film made with a Bangladesh government grant.<ref name=homage/>
==Filmography== * ''Surja Dighal Bari'' (1979) * ''Dahan'' (1985) * ''Anya Jibon'' (1995)
==Awards== * Chalachchitram Award 2004<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/story.php?nid=12748 |title=Tanvir Mokammel receives 'Chalachchitram Padak' |date=November 24, 2007 |access-date=January 11, 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Star |author=Jamil Mahmud}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|1345470}} {{Navboxes | title = Awards for Sheikh Niamat Ali | list = {{Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Screenplay}} {{Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Story}} {{Bangladesh National Film Award Best Director}} {{Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Art Direction}} }}
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