# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/naji-abu-nowar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:45:06.518Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/naji-abu-nowar"
name: "Naji Abu Nowar"
slug: "naji-abu-nowar"
description: "Naji Abu Nowar is a British-Jordanian film director, writer and producer. Best known for his works Death of a Boxer (2009), Till Death (2012) and Theeb (2014) for which he received wide spread acclaim and recognition, including a Best Foreign Language Film nomination at 88th Academy Awards, nomination for Best film not in the English language, and the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer at the 69th British Academy Film Awards. Theeb is the first Jordanian film to receive an Oscar nomination."
tagline: "Jordanian film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/aWHESaONGl5O9R8yc4z2XXixOiJ.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1981"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.943125333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3578681/"
    handle:    "nm3578681"
sources:
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    title: "纳吉·阿布·诺瓦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ناجي أبو نوار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ناجى ابو نوار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naji_Abu_Nowar"
    title: "Naji Abu Nowar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naji_Abu_Nowar"
    title: "Naji Abu Nowar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naji_Abu_Nowar"
    title: "Naji Abu Nowar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naji_Abu_Nowar"
    title: "Naji Abu Nowar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naji_Abu_Nowar"
    title: "Naji Abu Nowar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naji_Abu_Nowar"
    title: "Naji Abu Nowar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20873378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1354686"
    title: "Naji Abu Nowar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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