Nawazuddin Siddiqui broke out in Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday (2007) before career-making performances in Patang (2012), Kahaani (2012) and Kashyap’s APSA Jury Grand Prize-winning Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), which was selected for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. In 2012, Siddiqui was awarded a Special Jury Award at India’s National Film Awards for his performances across Gangs of Wasseypur, Kahaani, Dekh Indian Circus (2011) and Talaash (2012). Siddiqui then starred in the APSA-winning The Lunchbox (2013) and most recently worked once more with Kashyap on Psycho Raman (2016) for which he was recognised with a special mention for Best Performance by an Actor at the 2016 APSAs, the same year he appeared in the global hit Lion (2016). He then appeared in the biopic Manto (2018) about the life of writer Saadat Hasan Manto.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
