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Ali Abbasi

1981 - Today

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Ali Abbasi (Persian: علی عباسی, born 1981) is an Iranian-Danish filmmaker. He is known for his films Shelley (2016), Border (2018), Holy Spider (2022), and The Apprentice (2024). Abbasi also directed the last two episodes of the first season of the series The Last of Us. He has received various accolades, including an Un Certain Regard award, four Robert Awards, and a German Film Award, in addition to nominations for seven European Film Awards, a Goya Award, and two Guldbagge Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Ali Abbasi is the 1,179th most popular film director (up from 1,761st in 2024), the 406th most popular biography from Iran (up from 473rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Iranian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ali Abbasi ranks 1,179 out of 2,041. Before him are Břetislav Pojar, Abraham Polonsky, Rebecca Miller, Pavel Lungin, Sidney Franklin, and Carl Foreman. After him are Edgar Wright, Rachid Bouchareb, María Luisa Bemberg, Jacques Baratier, Shunji Iwai, and Luise Fleck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Ali Abbasi ranks 147. Before him are Elano, Michel Teló, Cytherea, Nikolay Davydenko, Simon Ammann, and Joe Cole. After him are Tulsi Gabbard, Elena Dementieva, Takeshi Honda, Kaan Urgancıoğlu, Andrija Delibašić, and Wataru Ota.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ali Abbasi ranks 406 out of 631. Before him are Andranik Eskandarian (1951), Zia ol Din Tabatabaee (1888), Nasser Hejazi (1949), Viguen (1929), Abol-Fath Khan Zand (1755), and Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1940). After him are Amir Hatami (null), Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani (1960), Ali Parvin (1946), Shahrnush Parsipur (1946), Yasmine Pahlavi (1968), and Aziz Nasirzadeh (1964).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Iran

Among film directors born in Iran, Ali Abbasi ranks 11. Before him are Asghar Farhadi (1972), Majid Majidi (1959), Dariush Mehrjui (1939), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Mohammad Rasoulof (1972), and Masoud Kimiai (1941). After him are Ali Hatami (1944), Bahman Ghobadi (1969), Hossein Shahabi (1967), Rakhshān Banietemad (1954), Samira Makhmalbaf (1980), and Tahmineh Milani (1960).

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