OSN; The Only Place To Watch The Most Awarded And Nominated Content Of The Year In The Middle East
OSN, the region’s leading entertainment network has seen a staggering 43 Oscar nominations across 14 of its films as the successful nominees got announced this week. In addition, OSN films picked up twelve wins and 37 nominations at last week’s Critics’ Choice Awards.
One of the big winners of the night at the Critics’ Choice Awards was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, coming soon exclusively to OSN, that took home four wins and received further eight nominations. The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, also received ten Oscar nominations in categories including Actor in a leading role (DiCaprio), Actor in a supporting role (Brad Pitt) and Best Cinematography.
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is also set for an exciting night at the Oscars with an impressive six nominations. The film also received eight nominations at the CCA awards and scooped one win for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film stars Saoirse Ronan who received a CCA nomination for Best Actress and Florence Pugh who received a CCA nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Another film winning big was the comic book-based thriller Joker, directed and produced by Todd Phillips, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Silver. The film, also available on OSN, won Best Score and Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) at the Critics’ Choice Awards and received further eight nominations, while picking up a staggering 11 Oscars nominations, including Best Actor in a leading role (Phoenix), Best Cinematography, Best Director and Best Film Editing.
Emad Morcos, Chief Content Officer at OSN says, “OSN is all about bringing exclusive entertainment content to the region and we are proud to have been the home of the Oscars for the last five years. This year, it gives us great pleasure to see that the content we decided to bring and knew our viewers would love is also being widely recognised in the industry. Congratulations to those who have already won and best of luck to everyone nominated in the upcoming Oscars. It is sure to be a great night and we invite everyone to join us and take the front seat from the comfort of their homes.”
Other OSN content scooping up includes:
- Little Women (one win and eight nominations at CCA, six Oscars nominations)
- Bombshell (one win and three nominations at CCA, three Oscars nominations)
- Toy Story 4 (one win at CCA, two Oscars nominations)
- Avenges End Game (two wins and one nomination at CCA, one Oscars nomination)
- Star Wars (three Oscars nominations)
- Frozen 2 (two nominations at CCA, one Oscars nomination)
- Knives Out (three nominations at CCA, one Oscars nomination)
- Rocketman (one win and two nominations at CCA, one Oscars nominations)
- Lion King (two nominations at CCA, one Oscars nominations)
- How to Train Your Dragon (one nomination at CCA, one Oscars nominations)
- Maleficent (one Oscars nomination)
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood (two nominations at CCA, one Oscars nomination)
As the region’s leading entertainment platform, OSN is proud to offer subscribers best in class content straight from cinemas. OSN content is available to watch through an OSN subscription on television or by streaming through WAVO, OSN’s ad-free streaming application.
With Hollywood award season well underway, it’s not long until the 92nd Academy Awards airs exclusively on OSN on 10th February at 5:00 UAE / 4:00 KSA / 3:00 Egypt. The leading entertainment platform is searching for the next Oscars co-host in an OSN original competition show, Live the Oscars which launched this month. Weekly episodes air every Friday at 19.45 UAE/20:45 KSA time with the winner being announced on Friday 31st January. Tune in to catch all the action!
