The Lebanese Cinema Movie Guide Awards

The Lebanese Movie Awards known as The LMAs, is an award ceremony recognizing the best Lebanese & International cinematic achievements in the filmmaking industry. The LMAs honors these films both in their artistic and technical aspects with categories including Best Motion Picture, Best Directing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, among others.

The award was first presented in 2014, at Vox Cinemas, before moving in 2016 to Beirut Souks Cinemacity in Downtown, a lush and luxurious venue hosting the ceremony so far, for two consecutive years. The LMAs is the first and only award ceremony for film in Lebanon.

The 4th edition of the LMAs was held on the 4th of April at Beirut Souks Cinemacity, with 5 films competing in major categories, Listen by Philippe Aractangi came out as the big winner with 4 awards including Best Picture. Nuts took home two awards for Best Editing and Best Production Design and Parisienne picked up the award for Best Director.

The LMAs
The 5th Annual LMAs
Awarded for	Outstanding Lebanese & International Cinematic Achievements
Country	Lebanon
Presented by	The Lebanese Cinema Movie Guide
Hosted by	Emilio Eid
First awarded	March 4, 2014
Website	www.thelmas.me

Nomination

The nominees were announced Live on Monday January 15, 2018, on MTV Lebanon, by the president and founder Emilio Eid.

The nominees included a total of 7 films, competing for 10 categories among which Best Picture, Best Lebanese Director, Best Ensemble Cast and more. This year a new category was added to honor the achievement of costume designers under the title of Best Wardrobe.

Jury Members

The jury members for the fifth edition are as follows, Emile Chahine, Sam Lahoud, Anne Dominique Toussaint, Darine Hamze, Phillipe Aractangi, Hassan Mrad, Fadi Abi Samra, Nibal Arakji, Mario Jr. Haddad, Pierre Rabbat, Zeina Daccache and Ghida Majzoub

Jury Members are carefully selected each year, as the LMA cares to keep a track record of prestigious and esteemed figures voting for the nominated films. Each jury member would receive his voting ballot and will have a period of time to cast his votes and return his ballot. All jury members votes are kept confidential at all times.

Here's a few of the jury we've had across the years: Raya Abirached, Elias Doummar, Marie-There Maalouf, Amin Dora, Jassmina Najjar, Mahmoud Hojeij, Georges Khabbaz, Wissam Breidy as well as many others.

Categories

Trivia

• Warner Brothers Pictures requested the trophies for Best Actress In A Leading Role, Best Director Motion Picture and Best Motion Picture Soundtrack, from the distributor to be shipped to the US in order to be specially delivered respectively to Sandra Bullock, Alfonso Cuaron and Steven Price.
• While presenting the Award for Best Actor In A Leading Role, actress Lara Rain received the trophy on his behalf and it remained with her, as the film distributor was absent during the ceremony.

Winners