{"id":47359,"date":"2017-12-07T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=47359"},"modified":"2017-12-07T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:41:00","slug":"stewart-receives-award-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/12\/stewart-receives-award-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Receives Award In Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Dubai International Film Festival<\/em> opened last night, and<strong> Sir Patrick Stewart<\/strong> received an honorary award at the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart received the <em>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal at <em>DIFF<\/em> has always been to promote great cinema, and recognize incredible talent,&#8221; said <strong>Abdulhamid Juma<\/strong>, <em>DIFF<\/em>&#8216;s Chairman. &#8220;This year we are truly humbled to present our <em>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/em> to Sir Patrick Stewart, whose career and contribution to cinema has made a lasting impact on the industry landscape for generations. It is our absolute pleasure to honor his incredible achievements at the festival and to welcome him to the <em>Madinat Jumeirah<\/em> for an unforgettable in conversation event with fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart received his award and spoke to those in attendance. &#8220;Not only Hollywood, but Europe and the outside world is in turmoil at the moment, and I believe that cinema has a role to play in bringing it to an end,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an international language that everyone can appreciate and understand. Cinema can take this opportunity and move all of us forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dubai International Film Festival opened last night, and Sir Patrick Stewart received an honorary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2484,8255,2440],"class_list":["post-47359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-award","tag-dubai","tag-stewart"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/StewartDubaiAward120717.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47361,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47359\/revisions\/47361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}