The Academy releases updates to 97th Oscars season schedule

Due to the interaction of the Los Angeles-area fires, the Academy has released an updated docket of cardinal dates and events

LOS ANGELES -- After a devastating week owed to the fires successful the Los Angeles-area, the Academy has announced an update to the 97th Oscars play cardinal dates and docket of events.

Updates are arsenic follows:

- The Oscars nominations voting play is extended done Friday, January 17, astatine 5 p.m. PT.
- The Oscars Nominations Announcement is rescheduled for Thursday, January 23, astatine 5:30 a.m. PT. The unrecorded announcement volition beryllium a virtual lawsuit without in-person media coverage.
- The Oscars Nominees Luncheon, scheduled for Monday, February 10, volition not beryllium held this year.
- The Scientific and Technical Awards, scheduled for Tuesday, February 18, volition beryllium rescheduled to a aboriginal day yet to beryllium determined.

The 97th Oscars volition still beryllium held connected Sunday, March 2, 2025, astatine the Dolby Theatre astatine Ovation Hollywood and volition beryllium televised unrecorded astatine 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT connected ABC, streamed unrecorded connected Hulu and aerial unrecorded successful much than 200 territories worldwide.

All of the supra dates are taxable to change.

Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang released a associated statement:

"We are each devastated by the interaction of the fires and the profound losses experienced by truthful galore successful our community. The Academy has ever been a unifying unit wrong the movie industry, and we are committed to lasting unneurotic successful the look of hardship.

Due to the still-active fires successful the Los Angeles area, we consciousness it is indispensable to widen our voting play and determination the day of our nominations announcement to let further clip for our members.

Additionally, arsenic we privation to beryllium delicate to the infrastructure and lodging needs of the portion successful these adjacent fewer weeks, it is imperative that we marque immoderate changes to our docket of events, which we judge volition person the enactment of our industry.

Our members ever stock however important it is for america to travel unneurotic arsenic a community, and we are determined to usage this accidental to observe our resilient and compassionate industry. We besides look guardant to honoring our frontline workers who person aided with the fires, recognizing those impacted, and encouraging radical to articulation the Academy successful supporting the alleviation efforts.

We volition get done this unneurotic and bring a consciousness of healing to our planetary movie community."

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