The Golden Globes has introduced that two of Egypt’s most celebrated cinema artists, Yousra and Hussein Fahmy, would be the recipients of the inaugural Omar Sharif Award, to be introduced Nov. 20 at a gala dinner on the Nile Ritz Carlton Lodge in Cairo.
This recognition celebrates their contributions to the expansion of leisure and manufacturing within the Center East. The occasion, organized by Egypt’s main way of life and leisure publication Enigma Journal, takes place throughout the forty fifth Cairo Worldwide Movie Competition.
“We’re honored to current the Omar Sharif Award, celebrating excellent achievements in Arab cinema and paying tribute to Omar’s outstanding legacy as a pioneering Egyptian artist,” mentioned Helen Hoehne, president of the Golden Globes. “The Center East has lengthy been a thriving heart for movie and tv manufacturing, influencing the worldwide stage.”
The award honors the contributions of creatives all through the Center East and Northern Africa. Sharif was the primary Egypt-born actor to win a Golden Globe award, and in the end took house three, for his performances in “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Physician Zhivago”; the award celebrates his legacy in movie and on the stage of the Golden Globes over its 80-year historical past.
The Golden Globes honor and rejoice the worldwide movie and tv neighborhood, with a give attention to highlighting rising and established artists around the globe. Most just lately, the group honored actress Sharon Stone with its Worldwide Icon Award in Turkey. As well as, The Golden Globes continues its lengthy associations with the Cannes Movie Competition, Venice Worldwide Movie Competition, Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition and the newly added London Movie Competition
Yousra has a profession spanning many years in movie, tv, and music. She has earned quite a few accolades together with the Achievement in Cinema Award on the Arab Ladies of the 12 months ceremony in London in 2015. She has additionally acquired awards at worldwide movie festivals together with Cannes, Venice, Beirut, Turin, Taormina and Marrakech.
“I’m deeply honored and touched to be a recipient of this award named after my shut good friend Omar Sharif. It’s much more particular to share this inaugural award with Hussein Fahmy, an incomparable expertise and chief within the Egyptian movie business,” Yousra mentioned. “I’ve been lucky to have labored with so many proficient administrators and craftsmen who’ve constructed the Center East into an unbelievable heart of filmmaking.”
Yousra has additionally served as honorary president of the Cairo Movie Competition, advisory board member on the El Gouna Movie Competition and a jury member on the Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences.
Hussein Fahmy is a extremely revered Egyptian actor who has starred in over 100 movies, tv and theater productions spanning his five-decade profession. He presently serves as president of the Cairo Worldwide Movie Competition. Fahmy has additionally served as a United Nations Improvement Program Goodwill Ambassador for the Arab states and has lengthy labored for humanitarian causes.
“I’ve been lucky to have a profession that has earned many accolades, however this Omar Sharif Award from the Golden Globes is actually one which I’ll eternally cherish and be glad about,” Fahmy mentioned. “It’s not solely a recognition of 1 man’s profession, but additionally the expansion and significance of Egypt and the remainder of the Center East and Africa as a premier filmmaking area.”
Amongst Fahmy’s many prizes are an honorary award on the Cairo Nationwide Competition for Egyptian Cinema, Lifetime Achievement Award on the Murex D’Or and the Creativity Prize for greatest actor in historic drama on the Cairo Arab Media Competition.
The 82nd annual Golden Globes, the primary main award present of the season, will air Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025 (8-11 PM, dwell ET/5-8 PM, dwell PT) on the CBS Tv Community, and stream on Paramount+ within the U.S. (dwell and on-demand for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Important subscribers the day after the particular airs).
Nominations for The Golden Globes shall be introduced on Monday, December 9, 2024.