# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/feras-fayyad
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:24:15.739Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/feras-fayyad"
name: "Feras Fayyad"
slug: "feras-fayyad"
description: "Feras Fayyad is a Syrian film director, producer, and writer. Fayyad best known for his 2017 documentary Last Men in Aleppo and his 2019 documentary The Cave, both films earned him critical acclaim and numerous awards and nominations including two Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, making him the first Syrian director to be nominated for an Oscar. Fayyad also won an Emmy award for Best Current Affairs Documentary, was nominated for a creative Emmy for best writing and directing, and has received two George Foster Peabody awards and a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement from the Directors Guild of America for his movie The Cave."
tagline: "Syrian film director (born 1984)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/A4zFj8qYhuKbolnSKg1ZmDy5L5W.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1984"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.24
  momentum:             4.565217391304349
  historical:           7.208496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/FerasFayyad"
    handle:    "FerasFayyad"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5926047/"
    handle:    "nm5926047"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feras_Fayyad"
    title: "Feras Fayyad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6"
    title: "فراس فياض"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فراس فياض"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feras_Fayyad"
    title: "Feras Fayyad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feras_Fayyad"
    title: "Feras Fayyad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firas_Fayyad"
    title: "Firas Fayyad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feras_Fayyad"
    title: "Feras Fayyad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28811045"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1732363"
    title: "Feras Fayyad"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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