| Best known as a Director based on credits in that role in 3 films, with $2,901,088 worldwide aggregate box office (rank #5,267) |
| Best-known technical roles: Control Room (Director), Control Room (Screenwriter), The Square (Director), Budrus (Executive Producer) |
| Most productive collaborators: Khalid Abdalla, Karim Amer, Magdy Ashour, Ahmed Hassan, Geralyn Dreyfous |
| Movies | Domestic Box Office | International Box Office | Worldwide Box Office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Technical Roles | Director | 3 | $2,713,860 | $187,228 | $2,901,088 |
| Screenwriter | 1 | $2,589,616 | $135,210 | $2,724,826 | |
| Executive Producer | 1 | $68,353 | $18,395 | $86,748 |
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February 15th, 2014
With our annual Oscar Prediction contest underway, now is the best time to look at the nominees and try and figure out who the favorites are and which films should just feel honored to be nominated. Today we look at Best Feature-Length Documentary, which is probably the hardest category to predict, because some of the previous winners of major awards were not even nominated for an Oscar. When the nominations were this unpredictable, the winner could be any of the five films.
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January 26th, 2014
The Directors Guild of America handed out the awards over the weekend, including two for theatrical releases. There were no true upsets, but it didn't go exactly as I anticipated it would go.
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January 16th, 2014
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning and there are some surprises mixed in with the predictable results. Gravity and American Hustle led the way with ten nominations each while 12 Years a Slave was right behind with nine. The fact that 12 Years a Slave wasn't the leader is the first of the surprises.
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January 14th, 2014
The Directors Guild of America finished its theatrical nominations yesterday with the Documentary category. I'm of two minds with the list of nominees. On the one hand, I feel like I should be surprised, because a number of documentaries thought to be Oscar favorites were left off the list. On the other hand, they've been left off the list a number of times. I think it is time to rethink who is and is not an Oscar favorite.
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| Release Date | Title | Role | Domestic Box Office | International Box Office | Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2019 | The Great Hack | Director | |||
| Oct 25, 2013 | The Square | Director | $124,244 | $52,018 | $176,262 |
| Oct 8, 2010 | Budrus | Executive Producer | $68,353 | $18,395 | $86,748 |
| May 21, 2004 | Control Room | Director Screenwriter |
$2,589,616 | $135,210 | $2,724,826 |
| Averages | $927,404 | $68,541 | $995,945 | ||
| Totals | 4 | $2,782,213 | $205,623 | $2,987,836 | |
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| Release Date | Title | Opening Weekend | Maximum Theaters | Domestic Box Office | Worldwide Box Office | Domestic Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2019 | The Great Hack | |||||
| Oct 25, 2013 | The Square | $16,359 | 9 | $124,244 | $176,262 | 70.5% |
| May 21, 2004 | Control Room | $27,125 | 74 | $2,589,616 | $2,724,826 | 95.0% |
| Averages | $21,742 | 42 | $1,356,930 | $1,450,544 | 82.8% | |
| Totals | 3 | $2,713,860 | $2,901,088 | |||
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| Release Date | Title | Opening Weekend | Maximum Theaters | Domestic Box Office | Worldwide Box Office | Domestic Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2004 | Control Room | $27,125 | 74 | $2,589,616 | $2,724,826 | 95.0% |
| Averages | $27,125 | 74 | $2,589,616 | $2,724,826 | 95.0% | |
| Totals | 1 | $2,589,616 | $2,724,826 | |||
