| Sheikh Niamat Ali | |
| Occupation: | Film director |
| Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
| Birth Date: | 30 April 1940 |
| Birth Place: | 24 Parganas, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Alma Mater: | Calcutta University |
Sheikh Niamat Ali (30 April 1940 – 24 November 2003)[1] was a Bangladeshi film director.[2] He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director in 1979, 1985, and 1995 for all the three feature films he ever made - Surja Dighal Bari, Dahan, and Anyajiban respectively.[1] [3]
In 1977, Ali and his co-director Masihuddin Shaker started shooting the film Surja Dighal Bari. The film was based on a novel by Abu Ishaque about the rural people in the 1950s. It won five international awards, including the Mannheim Film Festival and the Portugal Film Society.[4] It was the first film made with a Bangladesh government grant.[1]