Awards & Winners

Ayub Khan-Din

Date of Birth 1961
Place of Birth Salford, Greater Manchester
(Greater Manchester, United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom, Pakistan
Also know as Ayub Khan Din
Profession Actor, Playwright, Screenwriter
Ayub Khan-Din is a British Pakistani actor and playwright. As an actor, Khan-Din participated in some 20 British films and TV series in the late 1980s and the 1990s. He made his film debut in My Beautiful Laundrette, but is perhaps best known for the role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and as one of the leading characters in the film Idiot from 1992. In the late 1990s, Kahn-Din began writing plays, the first was East is East for the Royal Court Theatre, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Comedy. The play draws very much from Kahn-Din's own childhood in Salford, where he grew up in a large family with a British Pakistani father and a white British mother. In interviews, he has stated that the young boy Sajid Khan is a self-portrait, and that Sajid's parents are very exact portraits of his own parents. In 1999, the film version of East is East was released, starring Om Puri as the father and Linda Bassett as the mother. Khan-Din adapted his own play, and won both a British Independent Film Award and a London Critics' Circle Film Award for his screenplay, as well as being nominated for two BAFTA Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer, and for a European Film Award for Best Screenwriter.

Awards by Ayub Khan-Din

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ayub Khan-Din.

2008


Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy
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Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy Rafta, Rafta...

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer East Is East
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted East Is East

1999


British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay
Honored for : East Is East

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay East Is East
European Film Award for Best Screenwriter East Is East

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy East Is East