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Fox Movies will bring Hollywood live into the region's sitting rooms, and back-to back Oscar movie-marathon will lead up to tinsel town's definitive annual Academy Awards event.
Fox Movies has announced that it has secured the exclusive free-to-air rights to this years Oscars - the 81st Annual Academy Awards - and will be broadcasting it live to viewers around the Middle East on the Fox Movies Channel, on February 23 at 3am Bahrain time, with a repeat telecast at prime time 9pm.
This year, the Oscars will be broadcast live from its new home at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, as Australian actor Hugh Jackman, right, takes to the microphone as host, following in the footsteps of a number of Hollywood legends including Fred Astaire, Jack Lemmon, Michael Caine, Liza Minnelli and Whoopi Goldberg.
To celebrate this huge event in the region's television history, Fox Movies has scheduled a month-long, Sunday Oscar movie-marathon this February, broadcasting three previous Oscar-winning movies back-to-back, concluding the day of the Academy Awards on February 22.
Viewers can enjoy award-winning movie classics including Forest Gump, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan and Gladiator among many others.
Putting the spotlight firmly on the Oscars in the region, Fox Movies will be running a local print and online campaign, in addition to a local TV campaign.
What's more, regional movie fans can have their own say on the Oscars by logging on to the Fox Movies website and voting for who they think will win the awards for 'Best Actor in a Leading Role', 'Best Actress in a Leading Role' and 'Best Director' and which film they think will be awarded 'Best Picture'. The polls opened on January 30 and will run until February 22 midnight. Twenty-five lucky winners who correctly select the Oscar winners will win exciting prizes and merchandise courtesy Fox Movies.
Last year's Oscars - the 80th Academy Awards - were hosted by TV-favourite American comedian Jon Stewart, and broadcast to more than 30 million viewers worldwide.
Daniel Day Lewis won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his part in There Will _Be Blood; Marion Cotillard was awarded the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for her role as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose and No Country for Old Men - the crime thriller from the prolific directing duo - the Coen brothers, won the Oscar for best picture.
