2016 Oscars: AMPAS Set Dates for 88th, 89th and 90th Academy Awards

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April 9, 2015 10:21 am

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Academy and the ABC Television Network today announced the dates for the 88th, 89th and 90th Oscar® presentations. The Academy Awards® will air live on ABC on Oscar Sunday, February 28, 2016, February 26, 2017, and March 4, 2018, respectively.

Academy key dates for the 2015 Awards season are:

Saturday, November 14, 2015 The Governors Awards
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 Nominations voting opens 8 a.m. PT
Friday, January 8, 2016 Nominations voting closes 5 p.m. PT
Thursday, January 14, 2016 Oscar Nominations Announcement
Monday, February 8, 2016 Oscar Nominees Luncheon
Friday, February 12, 2016 Final voting opens 8 a.m. PT
Saturday, February 13, 2016 Scientific and Technical Awards
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Final voting closes 5 p.m. PT
Oscar Sunday, February 28, 2016 88th Academy Awards begins 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT

The 88th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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Alvin Wilder says:

January 8, 2016 at 8:03 pm

The Oscars have been going for a long time, and each year, the Academy seems to think there's never a black actor capable of being nominated, or no black shows, good enough for consideration. This is getting old.

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