Just three weeks after the celebration of the 98th Oscars gala, on March 15, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—as well as the ABC network, which broadcasts them—have announced when their next awards will take place. Not only the next ones, the 99th, but also the round ones, those that will celebrate their centenary. The 99th gala will be on Sunday, March 14, 2027, while the 100th will be held on March 5, 2028, also a Sunday. Both will take place at four in the afternoon, Pacific time (three hours more in the east of the country). However, at the moment there is no presenter for either of them.
Last year, the Academy was even quicker to give the next date. The Oscars were held on March 2, 2025 and on the 17th of that same month it was announced that, for 2026, they would be on March 15. But there, too, they announced that Conan O’Brien would repeat as presenter. This year, however, nothing is known about it.
With this double announcement, the Academy shows that its 100th Oscar gala will have a special relevance, which it is already beginning to prepare. Furthermore, both the 99th and the 100th will mark the end of an era. To begin with, because they will be the last ones to be broadcast on the ABC network. In the year 2029, YouTube will be the owner of the broadcasting rights, at least until 2033. This will imply that the platform, owned by Google, will broadcast them throughout the world and for free. Therefore, ABC and its parent company, Disney, which have been broadcasting them since 1976, will lose them, as well as conventional television viewers.
Starting in 2029, and as announced in an agreement in mid-December, YouTube will broadcast not only the gala around the world – something that facilitates advertising agreements and broadcast licenses, which until now are specified country by country – but also the nominations, the famous red carpet, and other related events that until now were not seen, such as the technical awards, the popular nominees’ luncheon, and the Governor’s Awards Gala, the honorary Oscars. Google and YouTube will also support and subsidize the Los Angeles Academy Museum.
But also, in 2029 the Oscars will leave Hollywood. The cinema neighborhood par excellence will say goodbye to the awards for which, in fact, it specifically built the Dolby theater on its Walk of Fame. That same year, they will be held in the downtown Los Angeles, its administrative and business center, in a theater called Peacock or LA Live. Again, it is due to a powerful economic agreement, with a new business partner called AEG, a large entertainment and events company in the city that precisely manages said theater. The red carpet and parallel events will also take place there.
But first, there are still two dates left in Hollywood and on conventional TV, which will be the next two months of March. The date of the Oscars marks the film calendar of the city—and, practically, of the world—where the rest of the festivals and awards are organized to their tune. The Academy Awards are always the last of awards season, while the Golden Globes (and, this year, the Critics Choice Awards as well) are usually the first. Taking these dates into account, the agendas of actors and directors, and a good part of the city, move to the rhythm of movie premieres and promotions during those months.
In addition to the awards dates, the Academy has detailed the exact voting and submission schedule for next season’s films (not the 100th awards). Among the most important dates, it is known that for the 2027 awards the list of pre-nominees will be announced, or short list (where some categories are known to pass a first cut, such as foreign films) on December 15. Nominations will be announced on January 21, 2027, while the nominees’ lunch will be on February 16.