Iran’s culture minister said Monday that his country will boycott the 2013 Oscars in the wake of the anti-Islam video made in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
An Iranian film won an Oscar in the foreign film category in February. But Mohammed Hosseini said the Islamic Republic would not field an entry for next year’s awards due to the low-budget video he dubbed “an intolerable insult to the Prophet of Islam,” the semiofficial Isna news agency reported. Hosseini urged other Islamic countries to also boycott.
He confirmed that the committee in charge of selecting Iran’s...
An Iranian film won an Oscar in the foreign film category in February. But Mohammed Hosseini said the Islamic Republic would not field an entry for next year’s awards due to the low-budget video he dubbed “an intolerable insult to the Prophet of Islam,” the semiofficial Isna news agency reported. Hosseini urged other Islamic countries to also boycott.
He confirmed that the committee in charge of selecting Iran’s...
- 9/25/2012
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside Movies
After winning the Best Foreign-Language Oscar in 2012 for "A Separation," Iran will not be participating in the 2013 Oscar race. The country has decided to boycott the Oscars in protest of the incendiary "Innocence of Muslims" film that has been linked to violent and deadly protests in the Muslim world from Egypt to Pakistan, including the murder of the well-respected U.S. Ambassador in Libya. This action comes as the U.S. continues to condemn the film, including an impassioned President Obama Tuesday at the U.N. Iran's cultural minister Mohammed Hosseini reportedly told the Associated Press that the country initially planned to submit Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi's "A Cube of Sugar" to the race, but the release of "Innocence of Muslims," which portrays Mohammed as a false prophet and sexually deviant, is too grave an insult to be ignored. "A Cube of Sugar" focuses on a family gathering for a wedding that turns tragic.
- 9/25/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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