Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and voice artist. A graduate of
Cambridge University, Baron Cohen is most widely known for writing and playing three unorthodox fictional characters:
Ali G,
Borat, and
Brüno. In his routines, Baron Cohen's characters interact with unsuspecting people who do not realise they are being set up for comic situations and self-revealing ridicule.
Baron Cohen was named Best Newcomer at the 1999 British Comedy Awards for ''The 11 O'Clock Show'', and since then, his work has been further recognised with two BAFTA Awards for ''Da Ali G Show'', several Emmy nominations, a nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay, and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his work in the feature film ''Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan''. After the release of ''Borat'', Baron Cohen stated that because the public had become too familiar with the characters, he would retire Borat and Ali G. Similarly, after the release of ''Brüno'', Baron Cohen has stated he would also retire the title character.
Early life
Baron Cohen, the middle of three brothers, was born in
Hammersmith, West London. His mother, Daniella (née Weiser), was born in Israel, and his father, Gerald, was originally from
Pontypridd, Wales. He has two brothers:
Erran and Amnon. His family is
Jewish. His maternal grandmother, who lives in
Haifa, Israel, trained as a ballet dancer in Germany. Erran is a composer and has worked on several of his films. Internationally renowned autism researcher
Simon Baron-Cohen is his cousin. Baron Cohen attended
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, a
private school in
Elstree,
Hertfordshire, north of London. He went on to the University of Cambridge, entering
Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read history. While attending the
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, Baron Cohen acted in the plays ''
Fiddler on the Roof'' and ''
Cyrano de Bergerac'', and performed in
Habonim Dror Jewish theatre performances.
Early roles
After leaving university, Baron Cohen worked for a time as a
fashion model, appearing in many fashion magazines. By the early 1990s, he was hosting a weekly programme on Windsor cable television's local broadcasts with
Carol Kirkwood, who later became a
BBC weather forecaster. In 1995,
Channel 4 was planning a replacement for its series ''
The Word'', and disseminated an open call for new television presenters. Baron Cohen sent in a tape of himself in the character of Kristo, a fictional television reporter from
Albania (who developed into the
Kazakh Borat Sagdiyev), which caught the attention of a producer. Baron Cohen hosted Pump TV from 1995–1996. In 1996, he began presenting the youth chat programme ''
F2F'' for
Granada Talk TV. He took clown training in Paris, at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier, studying under master-clown
Philippe Gaulier. Of his former pupil, Gaulier says: "He was a good clown, full of spirit". In the late 1990s, Baron Cohen made his first feature film appearance in the British comedy ''
The Jolly Boys' Last Stand''. In 2000, Baron Cohen played the part of
Super Greg for a series of TV advertisements for
Lee Jeans; the advertisements never aired but the website for Super Greg created an internet sensation.
Characters
Ali G
Baron Cohen appeared during two-minute sketches as his fashion reporter
Brüno on the
Paramount Comedy Channel during 1998. He shot to fame when his comic character
Ali G, an uneducated, boorish
junglist, hailing from
Staines (a suburban town in north
Surrey, to the west of London), started appearing on the British television show ''
The 11 O'Clock Show'' on
Channel 4, which first went to air 8 September 1998. A year after the premiere of the show, ''
GQ'' named him comedian of the year. He won Best Newcomer at the 1999
British Comedy Awards, and was nominated for Best British Entertainment Performance at the
British Academy Television Awards.
''Da Ali G Show'' began in 2000, and won the BAFTA for Best Comedy in the following year. Also in 2000, Baron Cohen as Ali G appeared as the limousine driver in Madonna's 2000 video "Music", directed by Jonas Åkerlund, who was also responsible for directing the titles for ''Da Ali G Show''.
In 2002, Ali G was the central character in the feature film ''Ali G Indahouse'', in which he is elected to the British Parliament and foils a plot to bulldoze a community centre in his hometown, Staines. His television show was exported to the United States in 2003, with new episodes set there, for HBO.
Ali G's interviews with celebrities (often politicians) gained notoriety partly because the subjects were not privy to the joke that Ali G, rather than being a real interviewer, was a comic character played by Baron Cohen. According to ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, Baron Cohen would always enter the interview area in character as Ali G, carrying equipment and appearing to be an insignificant crew member. He would arrive with a suited man, whom the interviewee naturally thought was the interviewer. Baron Cohen, as Ali G, would sit down to begin conducting the interview by asking the interviewee some preliminary questions. The interviewee, however, would remain under the impression that the smartly-dressed director would be conducting the interview until short notice prior to cameras rolling: this would grant an advantage of surprise, whereby the interviewee would be less likely to opt out of the Ali interview prior to its start.
The resulting willingness of Baron Cohen's targets to answer his frequently risqué questions often created surprising conversations. Interviewees have included:
astronaut Buzz Aldrin
politician and consumer advocate Ralph Nader
writer Gore Vidal
real estate mogul Donald Trump
former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
basketball players Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O'Neal, Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Richard Jefferson, Tim Duncan, Ben Wallace and Robert Horry
former US Secretary of State James Baker III
former US Attorney General Dick Thornburgh
businessman and billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed
Professor Heinz Wolff
former US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
political commentator Pat Buchanan
Professor Noam Chomsky
footballer David Beckham and his wife, ex-Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, for the UK's Comic Relief
former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali (whom Baron Cohen, in his Ali G character, referred to as 'Boutros Boutros ''Boutros''-Ghali')
former Conservative Party MP Neil Hamilton
journalist Andy Rooney
Labour politician Tony Benn
DUP politician Sammy Wilson
Baron Cohen is a supporter of ''Comic Relief'' and as Ali G has hosted some interviews for the benefit of the charity.
Borat
''Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'', a feature film with Borat at the centre, was screened at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and released in the United Kingdom on 2 November 2006, in the United States on 3 November 2006 and Australia 23 November 2006. The film is about a journey across the United States in an ice cream truck, in which the main character is obsessed with the idea of marrying Pamela Anderson. The film is a mockumentary which includes interviews with various American citizens that poke fun at American culture, as well as sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, jingoism and ''Baywatch''.
It debuted at the #1 spot in the US, taking in an estimated $26.4 million in just 837 theatres averaging $31,600 per theatre, the fourth highest per-theatre average of all time for movies opening wide (500 screens or more), behind ''Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' and ''Spider-Man''.
Baron Cohen won the 2007 Golden Globe in the "Best Actor – Musical or Comedy" category, his sixth such award. Although Borat was up for "Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy", the film lost to ''Dreamgirls''. On 23 January 2007, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He shared his nomination with the film's co-writers, Ant Hines, Peter Baynham, Sy Mordecai Finesto, Dan Mazer, and Todd Phillips.
Aside from the comic elements of his characters, Baron Cohen's performances are interpreted by some as reflecting uncomfortable truths about his audience. He juxtaposes his own Jewish lineage with the anti-Semitism of his character Borat.
In 2007, Baron Cohen published a travel guide as Borat, with dual titles: ''Borat: Touristic Guidings To Minor Nation of U.S. and A.'' and ''Borat: Touristic Guidings To Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan''.
On 21 December 2007, Baron Cohen announced he was retiring the character of Borat.
Brüno
Another alter ego Sacha Baron Cohen performed as is '
Brüno', a flamboyantly gay, allegedly-19-year-old, Austrian fashion show presenter who often lures his unwitting subjects into making provocative statements and engaging in embarrassing behaviour, as well as leading them to contradict themselves, often in the same interview. Brüno asks the subjects to answer 'yes or no' questions with either "Vassup" (whats up) or "Ich don't think so" (No); these are occasionally substituted with "Ach, ja!" (Ah yes!) or "Nicht, nicht" ("Nicht" means "not" in German). In one segment on ''Da Ali G Show'', he encouraged his guest to answer questions with either "Keep them in the ghetto" or "Train to Auschwitz". Brüno's main comedic satire pertains to the vacuity and inanity of the fashion and clubbing world. In May 2009, at the
MTV Movie Awards, Baron Cohen appeared as 'Brüno' wearing a white angel costume, a white jock strap, white go-go boots, and white wings; and did an aerial stunt where he dropped from a height (using wires) onto
Eminem. Baron Cohen landed on Eminem's lap, with his rear in Eminem's face, prompting Eminem to exit the venue with fellow rappers
D12. Eminem later admitted to staging the stunt with Baron Cohen.
Film
After an intense bidding war that included such Hollywood powerhouses as DreamWorks, Sony, and 20th Century Fox; Universal Pictures paid a reported $42.5 million for the film rights. A number of shill companies and websites were created in order to draw potential interviewees into interviews by creating an illusion of legitimacy. The film was released in July 2009.
Admiral General Aladeen
In his upcoming 2012 film ''
The Dictator'', Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, a dictator from a fictional country called the Republic of Wadiya, loosely based on controversial Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi. The film is also loosely based on a romance novel written by former
Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein. On 26 February 2012, Baron Cohen was banned from attending the
84th Academy Awards in his role as Admiral General Aladeen; however, it was later decided that he could come as himself in civilian attire. Baron Cohen, despite the ban, came dressed up as the Dictator, greeting the reporters with a cheery "Hello, death to the
West!" and while holding an
urn which he said was filled with the ashes of his "doubles-tennis partner"
Kim Jong-il whose dream, Baron Cohen claimed, was "to be sprinkled over the red carpet and
Halle Berry's chest again." (The "ashes" were reported to be pancake mix.) As Baron Cohen showed the golden urn featuring the image of Kim Jong-il, he then proceeded to view the bottom of the urn while purposely spilling its contents onto
E! red carpet host
Ryan Seacrest.
Performer versus characters
Baron Cohen has often been confused with the identity of one of his characters. When he posed as Borat to host the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon, the central Hungarian news wire agency
MTI reported that the host was 'Borat Sagdiyev'. As most Hungarian newspapers and television networks take MTI as their official source, the misinterpretation of the character spread rapidly in Hungary, with some sources (such as
TV2) emphasising that a Kazakh news reporter hosted the awards, while others (such as
Index.hu) noticed and pointed out the error.
Controversies and criticism
Baron Cohen has encountered many controversies regarding some of his comic characters:
In an interview with former British MP
Neil Hamilton in 2000, Ali G offered Hamilton what was allegedly
cannabis, which Hamilton accepted and smoked, creating some minor controversy in the British media.
At the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, Borat introduced Gnarls Barkley's performance of "Crazy", where he made a comment about Jessica Simpson, saying that he liked her mouth and that he could see it clearly through her denim pants.
At the 2006 UK premiere of ''Borat'', he arrived in Leicester Square in a cart pulled by a mule and a number of "Kazakh women", announcing: "Good evening, gentleman and prostitutes. After this I stay in a hotel in Kings Cross. We will all drink, wrestle with no clothes on and shoot dogs from the window."
Baron Cohen has had some trouble because of racist or prejudiced comments his characters have made (see ''Da Ali G Show''). HBO spokesman Quentin Schaffer has replied to criticism concerning Baron Cohen's characters, "Through his alter-egos, he delivers an obvious satire that exposes people's ignorance and prejudice in much the same way ''All in the Family'' did years ago." Regarding his portrayal as the anti-Semitic Borat, Baron Cohen says the segments are a "dramatic demonstration of how racism feeds on dumb conformity, as much as rabid bigotry", rather than a display of racism by Baron Cohen himself. "Borat essentially works as a tool. By himself being anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice", Baron Cohen explains. Addressing the same topic in an NPR interview with Robert Siegel, Baron Cohen says "...and I think that's quite an interesting thing with Borat, which is people really let down their guard with him because they're in a room with somebody who seems to have these outrageous opinions. They sometimes feel much more relaxed about letting their own outrageous, politically incorrect, prejudiced opinions come out."
Baron Cohen, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, says he also wishes in particular to expose the role of indifference in that genocide. "When I was in university, there was this major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw, who said, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic." Regarding the enthusiastic response to his song, "Throw The Jew Down The Well", he says, "Did it reveal that they were anti-Semitic? Perhaps. But maybe it just revealed that they were indifferent to anti-Semitism."
Baron Cohen walked onto the runway during the Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada fashion show in Milan on 26 September 2008. In the character of one of his alter-egos Brüno, he was wearing a costume made out of velcro. He appeared on the stage with a blanket and items of clothing stuck to his velcro suit. Lights were turned off while security intervened and escorted him off the stage, and the fashion show resumed normally shortly thereafter. Baron Cohen and his team allegedly accessed the fashion show using fake IDs.
During an appearance on ''Late Show with David Letterman'', Baron Cohen stated he was restricted from answering David Letterman's question as to how he managed to get an interview with Pat Buchanan while in character as Ali G due to pending "legal reasons".
While introducing an award at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Baron Cohen was lowered upside-down from the rafters dressed as an angel right into rapper Eminem's lap after an apparently staged problem with his wire harness. Baron Cohen had only a jockstrap on underneath and fully exposed his buttocks in Eminem's face. Eminem swore repeatedly, demanding that his friends, members of D12, each of whom were sitting next to Eminem, remove Baron Cohen, then left the auditorium. Baron Cohen then announced the winner (Zac Efron) while still hanging from the wires above the stage. It was later revealed that Eminem and Baron Cohen had planned and rehearsed the gag together.
Pauly Shore claimed, in 2009, that Baron Cohen's film, ''Brüno'', was "stolen from Shore's 'mockumentary'", as the film ''Brüno'' had started production after the start of production for ''Adopted'' and also featured the main character adopting a child from a Third World nation.
In March 2012, the organizers of a tournament in Kuwait caused some embarrassment after Baron Cohen's parody of the Kazakhstan national anthem from the film ''Borat'', was played instead of the actual anthem at a medal ceremony. The Kazakhstan shooting team demanded an apology from the organizers, who had mistakenly downloaded Baron Cohen's parody from the Internet.
Future projects
Baron Cohen will star as
Freddie Mercury of the rock band
Queen in ''
Mercury'', an upcoming film about the period in the band's history from 1971 to the
Live Aid concert in 1985. It was Baron Cohen himself who contacted screenwriter
Peter Morgan with the idea of portraying the flamboyant lead singer. ''
Time'' commented with approval on his singing ability and physical resemblance to Mercury. Cohen's next film, ''
The Dictator'', will be a loose adaptation of the novel ''
Zabibah and the King'', written by
Saddam Hussein. It will tell "the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed". Cohen will play the part of a Saddam Hussein–type ruler who gets secretly replaced by a lookalike and then flees to New York. ''Borat'' and ''Bruno'' film director
Larry Charles will direct the film.
Other work
Baron Cohen
guest-starred in the finale of the fifth season ''
Curb Your Enthusiasm'', with
Dustin Hoffman as a guide to
Heaven. He also provided the voice of the
ring-tailed lemur king,
King Julien, in DreamWorks' family movie ''
Madagascar'' (2005) as well as its
2008 sequel, and appeared as
Will Ferrell's arch rival the French
Formula One speed demon Jean Girard in the 2006 hit ''
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby''. He also appeared alongside
Johnny Depp in the 2007 film ''
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' as Signor Adolfo Pirelli, and co-starred in
Martin Scorsese's 2011 adventure film ''
Hugo''.
Baron Cohen tends to avoid doing interviews out of character. However, in 2004, he did the talk show circuit appearing as himself on ''Late Show with David Letterman'', ''The Opie and Anthony Show'', ''The Howard Stern Show'', and others in order to promote the upcoming season of his show on HBO. He was also interviewed on NPR's ''All Things Considered''. He also did an interview with ''Rolling Stone'', published in November 2006, that the magazine labelled as "his only interview as himself". He also appeared in an interview out of character with Terry Gross on NPR's ''Fresh Air'' on 4 January 2007.
Baron Cohen has twice presented the MTV Europe Music Awards, first as Ali G on 8 November 2001, in Frankfurt, Germany, and then as Borat on 3 November 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal. Baron Cohen appeared out of character to accept an award at the British Comedy Awards in December 2006. He said at the time that Borat could not make it to the awards as "he's guest of honour at the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran", referring to the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust.
''Borat'' director Larry Charles explains that Baron Cohen generally appears in character partly to "protect his weakness", by focusing public interest on his characters rather than himself. His other reason, ''Newsweek'' claims, is that Baron Cohen is fiercely private: "...according to the UK press, his publicists denied not only that he attended a party for the London premiere of ''Borat'', but also that a party even occurred."
It was reported online that Baron Cohen might play Freddie Mercury in a biographical film, but his publicist later declared that Baron Cohen would not do so. However, on 16 September 2010, representatives for Cohen confirmed that he would indeed be playing the role in an as-of-yet untitled biopic about Mercury.
Baron Cohen shot a spread with supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio for ''Marie Claire'' magazine to promote the film ''Brüno''.
''Sports Illustrated'''s 6 November 2006 issue contains a column called "Skater vs. Instigator", which illustrates various amusing "parallels" between Baron Cohen and figure skater Sasha Cohen, ranging from their mutually held personal significance of the number 4, to their mutual romantic interests in redheads.
Baron Cohen was featured on Australian talk show ''Rove'' as Brüno on 28 June 2009.
Baron Cohen was featured in the Time 100 list for 2007.
In 2010, Cohen guest-starred on ''The Simpsons'' in the episode "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" as Jakob, an angry Israeli tour guide.
Personal life
Marriage and family
Baron Cohen married Australian actress
Isla Fisher on 15 March 2010. After three years of study, Fisher
converted to Judaism in early 2007. She has received the approval of Baron Cohen's observant Jewish parents. Baron Cohen and Fisher have two daughters: Olive, born on 19 October 2007 in Los Angeles, and Elula, born in August 2010.
Legal issues
Two residents of
Glod, the
Romanian village in which the opening scenes of ''Borat'' were filmed, hired attorney
Edward Fagan to sue the makers of ''Borat'' for $30 million. They alleged that the intent of the film was misrepresented to them, that the poorest members of their village were made to look like "savages", and that they were underpaid, particularly when their minute salaries were compared to the millions earned by the completed film. During several segments, children were filmed with guns and other weapons and in another scene, an amputee who lost his arm was told to wear a rubber fist sex toy. The lawsuit was dismissed in New York hearing on the grounds that the allegations were too vague to stand up in court.
The government of Kazakhstan threatened Baron Cohen with legal action following the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony in Lisbon, and the authority in charge of the country's country-code top-level domain name removed the website that he had created for his character Borat (previously: http://www.borat.kz) for alleged violation of the law—specifically, registering for the domain under a false name. ''The New York Times'', (among others), has reported that Baron Cohen, (in character as Borat), replied: "I'd like to state that I have no connection with Mr Cohen and fully support my government decision to sue this Jew". He was, however, defended by Dariga Nazarbayeva, a politician and the daughter of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who stated, "We should not be afraid of humour and we shouldn't try to control everything, I think." The deputy foreign minister of Kazakhstan later invited Baron Cohen to visit the country, stating that he could learn that "women drive cars, wine is made of grapes, and Jews are free to go to synagogues". After the worldwide success of the ''Borat'' film, the Kazakh government, including the president, altered their stance on Baron Cohen's parody, tacitly recognising the invaluable press the controversy created for their country.
Baron Cohen encountered another problem around his Borat character. Two of the three University of South Carolina students who appear in ''Borat'' sued the filmmakers, alleging that they were duped into signing release forms while drunk, and that false promises were made that the footage was for a documentary that would never be screened in the US. On 11 December 2006, a Los Angeles judge denied the pair a restraining order to remove them from the film. The lawsuit was dismissed in February 2007.
On 22 May 2009, a charity worker at a seniors' bingo game sued Baron Cohen, claiming an incident shot for ''Brüno'' at a charity bingo tournament left her disabled. However, the worker later retracted her statement, saying the "actor never struck her", but that he "beat her down emotionally to the point she's now confined to a wheelchair". The scene did not make the final cut for the film. The case was dismissed in late November 2009 on Anti-SLAPP grounds with all attorney's fees to be paid by the charity worker. The dismissal was appealed and upheld on 12 September 2011.
A lawsuit was filed on 30 April 2010 in the District of Columbia by Palestinian Christian Ayman Abu Aita of Beit Sahour, Bethlehem, West Bank, against Baron Cohen relating to his interview which was used in ''Brüno''. Aita alleges that he has been defamed by false accusations that he is a terrorist. Aita included David Letterman in the suit based on comments made during the 7 July 2009 appearance by Baron Cohen on the ''Late Show with David Letterman''. On 4 November 2010, the D.C. case was dismissed with Aita given 120 days to file in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York or have the case permanently dismissed (see DC Case Docket Sheet).
Israel and Judaism
Baron Cohen first acted in theatrical productions featuring the Socialist-Zionist youth movement
Habonim Dror.
He spent a year in Israel at Kibbutz Rosh HaNikra and Kibbutz Beit HaEmek as part of the Shnat Habonim Dror, as well as taking part in the programme Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz for Jewish youth movement leaders.
According to Baron Cohen, "I wouldn't say I am a religious Jew. I am proud of my Jewish identity and there are certain things I do and customs I keep." He tries to keep kosher and attends synagogue about twice a year.
Baron Cohen frequently speaks in Hebrew while playing the anti-Semitic character Borat. He also sang the lyrics from an old kibbutz song (pretending that it was the Kazakh national anthem) in an episode of ''Da Ali G Show''. In one of the deleted scenes of his film, after being asked by the host-pastor to lead the table in a pre-meal prayer service, Baron Cohen, in his character role of Borat, sings a lengthy hymn (not Hebrew) that has clear similarities to the Mussaf prayer service of the Jewish High Holidays. He actually repeatedly sings two Polish phrases (slightly mispronounced) "Excuse me ma'am do you speak English?" and "Could you speak slowly please?"
Awards and nominations
1999 – Won
British Comedy Award, Best Male Comedy Newcomer for ''The 11 O'Clock Show'' (1998)
2000 – Nominated
BAFTA TV Award, Best Entertainment Performance for ''The 11 O'Clock Show'' (1998)
2000 – Nominated National Television Awards, UK, Most Popular Comedy Performer for ''Da Ali G Show'' (2000)
2000 – Won TV Quick Award, TV Personality of the Year for ''Da Ali G Show'' (2000)
2001 – Won BAFTA TV Award, Best Comedy (Programme or Series) for ''Da Ali G Show'' (2000) (shared)
2001 – Won BAFTA TV Award, Best Comedy Performance for ''Da Ali G Show'' (2000)
2003 – Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Non-Fiction Program (Alternative) for ''Da Ali G Show'' (2003) (shared)
2003 – Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Writing for Non-Fiction Programming for ''Da Ali G Show'' (2003) (shared)
2004 – Nominated Golden Satellite Award, Best Performance by an Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical for ''Da Ali G Show'' (2003)
2005 – Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series for ''Da Ali G Show'' (2003) (shared)
2005 – Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for ''Da Ali G Show'' (2003) (shared)
2006 – Won Ronnie Barker Award
2007 – Won MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss alongside Will Ferrell in ''Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby''
''Borat'' awards and nominations
2006 – Won: Los Angeles Films Critics Association Award for Best Actor.
2006 – Won: San Francisco Films Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.
2006 – Winner: Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor.
2006 – Won: Deutscher Comedypreis (German comedy award) for Best International Comedy.
2007 – Won: Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical
2007 – Nominated: Golden Globe for Best Picture Comedy/Musical.
2007 – Nominated: London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actor of the Year.
2007 – Nominated: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (shared).
2007 – Nominated: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (shared).
2007 – Won: MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance and Nominated for Best Movie as well and Best Fight with Ken Davitian.
2007 – Won: The Evening Standard British Film Awards: Peter Sellers award for Best Comedy.
Filmography
References
External links
in 2007
– biography and credits
Sacha Baron Cohen audio interview with NPR's Robert Siegel
''And Now for the World According to Borat and Sacha Baron Cohen'', ''Authors Den'', 24 March 2007
''Sacha Baron Cohen: Killing off Borat'', article at ''The Daily Telegraph'', 21 December 2007
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