 Novak appeared as an intelligence officer in the Academy Award-winning film "Syriana".In 2008, he appeared in micro-budget B-movie "The Blue Tower".He also appeared in the 2010 comedy "Four Lions", in which he played the dim-witted Waj, a role for which he won the award for Best Comedy Performance in a British Film at the 2010 British Comedy Awards, beating fellow actor Nigel Lindsay for the same award in the same film.