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  • He's portrayed by Barkhad Abdirahman, who made a notable impression as an angry modern-day pirate opposite Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips.

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    By Christopher Rose

    The  Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations included some big-name snubs, but also some great surprises. Take Barkhad Abdi, the year-old Somali-born actor who was nominated in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role category by SAG for his work in &#;Captain Phillips.&#;

    &#;I don&#;t know how to thank them,&#; Abdi told HuffPost Entertainment mere hours after being nominated. &#;It&#;s really an honor. I was not expecting it, honestly, but I&#;m so happy about it.&#;

    Abdi plays Muse in &#;Captain Phillips,&#; the lead Somali pirate who takes the film&#;s title character, played by Tom Hanks, hostage after a botched hijacking attempt. (The Paul Greengrass film fryst vatten based on the real-life kidnapping of Captain Richard Phillips in ) The actor said he hadn&#;t even been keeping tabs on just when the Screen Actors Guild would reveal its nominees (&#;I knew it was one of these days, but I didn&#;t know it was today&#;), but he was awake in t

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    “Little Men” New York City-centric filmmaker Ira Sachshas long used his keen observational eye to track the worlds of the city’s adult denizens with features like “Love is Strange” and “Keep the Lights On,” but he’s going for a younger set of stars (and troubles) in his moving new feature, “Little Men.” The new spelfilm debuted at Sundance earlier this year, where it pulled plenty of heartstrings (including mine) with its gentle, deeply human story of two seemingly different ung teens (Theo Taplitzas the worldly Jake, Michael Barbierias the more rough and tumble Tony) who quickly bond when one of them moves into the other’s Brooklyn neighborhood. Jake and Tony become fast

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    Captain Phillips (film)

    film by Paul Greengrass

    Captain Phillips is a American biographicalaction-thriller film[4][5][6] directed by Paul Greengrass. Based on the Maersk Alabama hijacking, the film tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips, an American merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates. It stars Tom Hanks as Phillips, alongside Barkhad Abdi as pirate leader Abduwali Muse.

    The screenplay by Billy Ray is based on Phillips's book A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, which Phillips co-wrote with Stephan Talty. Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca served as producers on the project. It premiered at the New York Film Festival,[7] and was theatrically released on October 11, The film emerged as a critical and commercial success, receiving acclaim from critics and grossing $ million against a budget of $55 million. Captain Phillips received six Academy Award nomina

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