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‘The Insult’ Director Ziad Doueiri Overcame Political Controversy To Take Oscar Nod For Best Foreign Language Film

“Of course, I was overjoyed. The first thing I did is I called my mom, because my mother actually was the legal consultant on the movie,” The Insult director Ziad Doueiri said recently, reflecting on his film’s nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. “When it happened, I started thinking about what we've been…

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Oscars: ‘The Insult’s Ziad Doueiri On Lebanon’s First Foreign-Language Nominee, Despite Attempts To Ban Film

EXCLUSIVE: Franco-Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri had a rough road to get to a Foreign Language Oscar nomination today with his drama, The Insult — including being arrested just after it premiered in Venice. Still, there’s comfort in the first-ever nomination for Lebanon since it began submitting films in 1978…

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Oscars: Parsing A Strong Field Of Foreign Language Nominees; Director Reactions

Among the group of five filmmakers who advanced in the Best Foreign Language Oscar race this morning, there is joy, humility, a heavy sigh of relief and a first-time nod for Lebanon. There’s also a return nominee — and a couple of films that are rather conspicuously absent. Looking first at the snubs, a notable…

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Golden Globes Winners ‘Three Billboards’ & ‘Lady Bird’ Cash In; ‘Phantom Thread’ Expands Solid – Specialty Box Office

After taking their Golden Globe wins for Best Drama and Best Musical or Comedy, Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and A24's Lady Bird played more locations well into their theatrical runs. Three Billboards crossed $29M over the Martin Luther King weekend, while Lady Bird landed at $37.2M. Other…

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Lena Dunham In Mother’s ‘My Art’; Susan Sarandon Supports LGBTQ ‘Saturday Church’ – Specialty B.O. Preview

Post Golden Globes and just ahead of next week's Sundance Film Festival, awards contenders will continue to dominate the Specialty box office this weekend, though newcomers continue to trickle in. Film Movement is opening Laurie Simmons' My Art, which features her daughters Lena and Grace Dunham. Simmons had starred…

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‘The Insult’s Ziad Doueiri Freed By Lebanon Court After Post-Venice Detention

UPDATED, 8:06 AM: Ziad Doueiri, the Franco-Lebanese filmmaker whose The Insult earned the Best Actor Volpi Cup for Kamel El Basha in Venice this weekend, has been released without charge by a military tribunal in Lebanon. This is after he was detained upon arrival at Beirut’s airport yesterday, saw his passports…

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