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.

[4] It was the first film made with a Bangladesh government grant.