Announcement of the Academy Awards will take place on February 26 next (Reuters)
Announced that the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Film Festival it received films from 63 countries will compete for the award "Oscar" for best foreign film in 2011, and involved three Arab films within this competition.
It is scheduled to choose a special committee of five nominations for the Academy in January 24, 2012, and will be announced the winner for best foreign film award ceremony in the 84th session of the Academy in Los Angeles on February 26.
And the intervention of three Arab films competing for best foreign film Oscar, an Egyptian film "offline", directed by Khaled stone, and the Lebanese ", Hala to Win" by Nadine Labaki, and Moroccan film "Omar killed me", directed by Zam Rushdie.
The Academy Awards are granted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Film Festival's highest awards in the world cinema, film and the nomination of the competition for best foreign film gives it luster helps to attract viewers.
Among the foreign films that attracted attention largely in the competition of foreign films this year, the Dutch film "in the dark," which was received well Festival Toronto International Film Festival in Canada in September / September, and the Spanish "black bread" which won the time earlier this year with nine awards festival "air", the largest film festival in Spain.
Source: Agencies