Emily Blunt & Aamir Khan To Be Honored At Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival

Melanie Goodfellow

2 December 2024 at 11:38 am·1-min read

Bollywood star Aamir Khan and Oscar nominee Emily Blunt will be honored at the opening night of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival this week, alongside previously announced honouree, Egyptian actor Mona Zaki.

Khan and Blunt will also participate in the festival’s starry ‘In Conversation With’ strand, for which Eva Longoria, Andrew Garfield and Ranbir Kapoor are among the speakers to have already been announced.

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India’s Khan is one his country’s most successful actors and filmmakers with a string of hit films under his belt including the 2016 female wrestling drama Dangal, which remains one of the highest grossing films in the territory to this day.

Other notable credits include hits with Ghajini, 3 Idiots, Dhoom 3, PK and 2002 Oscar-nominee Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India.

A Quiet Place and Sicario star Blunt was Oscar-nominated in the 2023-24 awards season for best supporting actress for her performance in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Upcoming films include The Smashing Machine, opposite Dwayne Johnson, and a big event film being prepped by Steven Spielberg.

“Cinema has been my lifelong passion, and to be amidst such an inspiring group of atistes from across the world is truly humbling,” said Khan.

Blunt welcomed her honor, saying: “I love all that this festival is doing for innovative and emerging talent in the film industry. In particular, I’m enthused by how they are empowering women in cinema and amplifying their voices.”

The fourth edition of the Red Sea Film Festival runs in the port city of Jeddah from December 5 to 14.

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