Moments in the past, The Academy made some key bulletins for the upcoming season. For one factor, we now know the dates related to the 98th Oscars. The ceremony will probably be held on Sunday, March fifteenth, 2026. Tuesday, January twenty second, will probably be when nominations are introduced. So, we have now that data. Plus, some guidelines and laws have been authorised, with the main one being that members should watch all nominated movies in every class with the intention to vote. Will that affect winners? It’s exhausting to say, but it surely does look like a typical sense change. The full record could be seen under.
Right here is the press launch from The Academy:
The Academy’s Board of Governors has authorised awards guidelines and marketing campaign promotional laws for the 98th Academy Awards®. As well as, the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences at present introduced key dates for the 2025 awards season. As beforehand introduced, the 98th Oscars® will air stay on ABC on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.
In a procedural change, Academy members should now watch all nominated movies in every class to be eligible to vote in the ultimate spherical for the Oscars®. All designated nominees can even be included on the ultimate poll.
Class guidelines for eligibility and voting for the inaugural Academy Award® for Achievement in Casting have been codified. There will probably be a preliminary spherical of voting to find out a shortlist of 10 movies, and previous to nominations voting, Casting Administrators Department members will probably be invited to view a “bake-off” presentation of the shortlisted achievements, together with a Q&A with the designated nominees.
Different substantive awards guidelines modifications embody:
- In the guidelines for movie eligibility, the following language concerning Generative Synthetic Intelligence (AI) has been launched, as beneficial by the Academy’s Science and Know-how Council:
With regard to Generative Synthetic Intelligence and different digital instruments utilized in the making of the movie, the instruments neither assist nor hurt the probabilities of reaching a nomination. The Academy and every department will decide the achievement, making an allowance for the diploma to which a human was at the coronary heart of the inventive authorship when selecting which film to award.
- For consideration in the Greatest Image class, movies launched from January 1, 2025, via June 30, 2025, will need to have proven proof of submission for Producers Guild of America (PGA) mark certification or awards-solely willpower no later than September 10, 2025. Movies launched from July 1, 2025, via December 31, 2025, will need to have proven proof of submission to the PGA no later than November 13, 2025.
- In the Animated Quick Movie class, voting privileges in the nominations spherical will probably be prolonged to all Academy members who choose in to take part. Members should view all 15 shortlisted movies to be eligible to vote in the class.
- In the Cinematography class, there’ll now be a preliminary spherical of voting for the Cinematography award to find out a shortlist of between 10 and 20 movies.
- In the Worldwide Function Movie class, the eligibility requirement concerning inventive management has been up to date to be inclusive of filmmakers with refugee or asylum standing.
The submitting nation should affirm that inventive management of the movie was largely in the palms of residents, residents, or people with refugee or asylum standing in the submitting nation.
- For the Music classes, there’ll now be a separate, earlier deadline of Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 5 p.m. PT for tune submissions. Unique Rating submissions will probably be due no later than Monday, November 3, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT.
Academy key dates, together with submission deadlines and voting intervals, for the 2025 Oscars season are as follows:
| First submission deadline for Animated Quick Movie, Documentary Function Movie, Documentary Quick Movie and Stay Motion Quick Movie classes |
Thursday, August 14, 2025 |
| First submission deadline for Common Entry classes, Animated Function Movie, Greatest Image and RAISE type |
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 |
| Submission deadline for Worldwide Function Movie |
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 |
| Scholar Academy Awards |
Monday, October 6, 2025 |
| Ultimate submission deadline for Animated Quick Movie, Documentary Quick Movie and Stay Motion Quick Movie classes |
Thursday, October 9, 2025 |
| Submission deadline for Music (Unique Music) |
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
| Ultimate submission deadline for Documentary Function Movie |
Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
| Submission deadline for Music (Unique Rating) |
Monday, November 3, 2025 |
| Ultimate submission deadline for Common Entry classes, Animated Function Movie, Greatest Image and RAISE type |
Thursday, November 13, 2025 |
| Governors Awards |
Sunday, November 16, 2025 |
| Preliminary voting begins 9 a.m. PT |
Monday, December 8, 2025 |
| Preliminary voting ends 5 p.m. PT |
Friday, December 12, 2025 |
| Oscars Shortlists Announcement |
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 |
| Casting, Make-up and Hairstyling, Sound and Visible Results nominating screenings (bake-offs) |
Sat. Jan. 10 / Solar. Jan. 11, 2026 |
| Nominations voting begins 9 a.m. PT |
Monday, January 12, 2026 |
| Nominations voting ends 5 p.m. PT |
Friday, January 16, 2026 |
| Oscars Nominations Announcement |
Thursday, January 22, 2026 |
| Oscars Nominees Occasion |
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 |
| Finals voting begins 9 a.m. PT |
Thursday, February 26, 2026 |
| Finals voting ends 5 p.m. PT |
Thursday, March 5, 2026 |
| 98th Oscars |
Sunday, March 15, 2026 |
| Scientific and Technical Awards |
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 |
The Academy additionally up to date and clarified formatting and language in the marketing campaign promotional laws for the 98th Oscars®. The marketing campaign promotional laws specify how movement image corporations and people instantly related to Oscars-eligible movement footage could promote such movement footage, achievements and performances to Academy members and how Academy members could promote Oscars-eligible movement footage, achievements and performances.
Substantive modifications to the marketing campaign promotional laws embody:
- Oscar®-qualifying film festivals could now have entry to authorised mailing homes to share details about competition programming with Academy members.
- Public communications (together with any social media posts, reposts, shares and feedback) could not disparage the strategies utilized in or subject material of any movement image. Any Academy member, movement image firm or particular person instantly related to an eligible movement image discovered to be in violation will probably be topic to penalization.
All guidelines and dates for the 98th Academy Awards are topic to vary.
For the full 98th Academy Awards guidelines and marketing campaign promotional laws, go to oscars.org/rules.