Key Dates and Deadlines Between January 1st and the Oscars (March 4th)

Erik Anderson January 1, 2018

It’s the new year and we now enter what is essentially Phase II of awards season. The majority of critics’ groups have announced winners (or at least nominees) with some still to reveal this month. But January is where the heavy hitters land with the televised awards: The Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice and the Screen Actors Guild. It’s also when the majority of non-televised guilds announce their nominations (the first two weeks of January alone are mind-boggling).

But something to really look at with these dates and deadlines is where a voting period lands between other awards bodies announcing. The potential impact from a win at next weekend’s Golden Globes could find itself in a very prime spot of the week of Oscar nomination voting. This year, two of the biggest and most important guilds – the Producers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild – will have announced their winners the weekend before Oscar nominations. With no time to scramble between those dates it could give us possible winners that miss out on the Oscars.

Here is an exhaustive list of key dates and deadlines between now and the 90th Academy Awards on March 4th. And be on the lookout for this year’s Build by Guild: Creating a Best Picture Nominee chart this week.

JANUARY
Jan. 2 – Annie Awards: Final Voting Opens

Jan. 3 – ACE Eddie Awards: Film Nominations Announced
Jan. 3 – ADG Awards: Film Nominations Voting Closes
Jan. 3 – BAFTA Awards: Nominations Voting Closes
Jan. 3 – CAS Awards: Film Nominations Voting Closes
Jan. 3 – Golden Globes: Final Voting Closes
Jan. 3 – WGA Awards: Film Nominations Voting Closes

Jan. 4 – WGA Awards: Film Nominations Announced
Jan. 4 – ADG Awards: Nominations Announced
Jan. 4 – CDG Awards: Film Nominations Voting Closes
Jan. 4 – PGA Awards: Film Nominations Voting Closes

Jan. 5 – Oscars: Nominations Voting Opens

Jan. 5 – PGA Awards: Film Nominations Announced
Jan. 5 – MUAHS Awards: Nominations Announced
Jan. 5 – AFI Awards: Ceremony
Jan. 5 – ASC Awards: Film Nomination Voting Closes
Jan. 5 – ACE Eddie Awards: Final Voting Opens
Jan. 5 – PGA Awards: Final Voting Opens

Jan. 7 – Golden Globes

Jan. 8 – ADG Awards: Final Voting Opens
Jan. 8 – MPSE Awards: Film Nominations Voting Opens
Jan. 8 – WGA Awards: Final Voting Opens

Jan. 10 – ASC Awards: Nominations Announced
Jan. 10 – BAFTA Awards: Nominations Announced
Jan. 10 – CAS Awards: Nominations Announced
Jan. 10 – CDG Awards: Nominations Announced
Jan. 10 – DGA Awards: Film Nominations Voting Closes
Jan. 10 – ASC Awards: Final Voting Opens
Jan. 10 – BAFTA Awards: Final Voting Opens

Jan. 11 – DGA Awards: Film Nominations Announced
Jan. 11 – DGA Awards: Final Voting Opens

Jan. 12 – Oscars: Nominations Voting Closes

Jan. 15: NAACP Image Awards
Jan. 15 – VES Awards: Film Nominations Announced

Jan. 17 – MPSE Awards: Film Nominations Voting Closes

Jan. 18 – ACE Eddie Awards: Final Voting Closes

Jan. 19 – PGA Awards: Final Voting Closes
Jan. 19 – SAG Awards: Final Voting Closes

Jan. 20 – PGA Awards

Jan. 21 – SAG Awards

Jan. 22 – MPSE Awards: Nominations Announced
Jan. 22 – MPSE Awards: Final Voting Opens

Jan. 23 – Oscars: Nominations Announced

Jan. 23 – Annie Awards: Final Voting Closes

Jan. 24 – CDG Awards: Final Voting Opens

Jan. 25 – ADG Awards: Final Voting Closes
Jan. 25 – MUAHS Awards: Final Voting Opens
Jan. 25 – VES Awards: Final Voting Opens

Jan. 26 – ACE Eddie Awards

Jan. 27 – ADG Awards

Jan. 29 – WGA Awards: Final Voting Closes

FEBRUARY
Feb. 2 – CAS Awards: Final Voting Opens

Feb. 2 – DGA Awards: Final Voting Closes

Feb. 3 – DGA Awards
Feb. 3 – Annie Awards

Feb. 5: Oscars: Nominees Luncheon

Feb. 8 – BAFTA Awards: Final Voting Closes
Feb. 8 – VES Awards: Final Voting Closes

Feb. 10 – USC Scripter Awards
Feb. 10 – Oscars: Scientific & Technical Awards

Feb. 11 – WGA Awards

Feb. 12 – ASC Awards: Final Voting Closes

Feb. 13 – VES Awards

Feb. 14 – CAS Awards: Final Voting Closes
Feb. 14 – CDG Awards: Final Voting Closes
Feb. 14 – MPSE Awards: Final Voting Closes

Feb. 16 – MUAHS Awards: Final Voting Closes

Feb. 17 – ASC Awards

Feb. 18 – BAFTA Awards
Feb. 18 – MPSE Awards

Feb. 20 – Oscars: Final Voting Opens

Feb. 20 – CDG Awards

Feb. 24 – CAS Awards
Feb. 24 – MUAHS Awards

Feb. 27 – Oscars: Final Voting Closes

MARCH

March 3 – Independent Spirit Awards

March 4 – Oscars

LEGEND

ACE – American Cinema Editors
ADG – Art Directors Guild
ASC – American Society of Cinematographers
BAFTA – British Academy of Film and Television Arts
CAS – Cinema Audio Society
CDG – Costume Designers Guild
DGA – Directors Guild
MPSE – Motion Picture Sound Editors
MUAH – Makeup and Hairstyling
PGA – Producers Guild
SAG – Screen Actors Guild
WGA – Writers Guild
VES – Visual Effects Society

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Erik Anderson

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.