Since 1983
The Oscar Hotel by Atlas Studios was built in 1983 to accommodate the film crews of Atlas Studios to accompany the development of cinema in the region of Ouarzazate. Much like Ouarzazate itself, the history of The Oscar Hotel by Atlas Studios, is a tale around the glamour of the 7th art. Thanks to the hotel and the studios, the economy of the region knew a fast development.Film shooting helped the tourism economy by making advertisements to the city all over the world. In the 80’s, the first movie shot in the Atlas Studios was « The Jewel of the Nile » starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Dany Devito followed in 1986 by the shooting of the 15th James Bond film with Timoty Dalton, « The Living Daylights ». Today, The Oscar Hotel by Atlas Studios continue to contribute to the epic of the world of cinema by hosting several foreign productions of different sizes and different nationalities but the hotel also welcomes many visitors came to visit the sets of many box office movies in the Atlas Studios and the beauty of many natural sites as the famous Kasbah Taourirt selected by the UNESCO and included in the World Heritage Program.