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Free Screening of The Oscars at VOX Cinemas Beirut

By Rami on March 1, 2018 in Events, Movies

Movie buffs are certainly excited for the Academy Award event this weekend but Lebanese people are also in general anticipating it because for the first time ever this year Lebanon is heading to the Oscars with the nomination of Ziad Doueiri’s “The Insult” for the best foreign film.

For the occasion, VOX Cinemas is parternering with OSN to screen the event at their theaters in City Centre Beirut free of charge for anyone who would like to attend.

The screening will be live on March 5th at 3AM Beirut Time and if you’re interested to watch it there then you can reserve your free seats here.

The Insult – First Lebanese Movie to Get An Academy Award Nomination

By Rami on January 23, 2018 in Movies

Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri just earned today an academy award nomination for his movie “The Insult” in the Foreign Language Film category! This is big news for us because it is the first movie to ever get an official Oscar nomination since Lebanon started submitting films to the Academy Awards in 1978, and will compete with four other submissions from Russia, Chile, Hungary and Sweden.

Ziad Doueiri stirred much controversy a while ago by the way when he filmed a previous movie, The Attack, in Israel. However, I noticed that almost everybody seemed to agree on praising “The Insult” regardless of their stance on Doueiri and his political views, so I really hope it manages to clinch the trophy!

The Oscars will air on Sunday March 4th on ABC Network and Jimmy Kimmel is once again hosting the event this year. You can check the full list of nominees for all categories here.

Lebanese submissions to the 87th Oscar awards

By Rami on December 19, 2014 in Lebanon

I was checking some Oscar-related news today and noticed we got two submissions (but not yet shortlisted) for the awards. One for the movie “Ghadi” by George Khabbaz as the best foreign language film, and the other for Yasmine Hamdan’s song “Hal”, which was featured in the British-German movie “Only Lovers Left Alive“, as the best original song.

I sure hope at least one of these two gets shortlisted, especially Yasmine Hamdan with that super sensual performance, but the competition is usually pretty fierce.

Does anybody know if any Lebanese artwork has ever been shortlisted for the Oscars?

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