List of Academy Awards ceremonies

This is a list of Academy Awards ceremonies.^[1]^[2]^[3]

This list is current as of the 95th Academy Awards ceremony held on March 12, 2023.

Venues

1929: The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
1930–1943: Alternated between the Ambassador Hotel and the Biltmore Hotel
1944–1946: Grauman's Chinese Theatre
1947–1948: Shrine Auditorium
1949: Academy Award Theater
1950–1960: Pantages Theatre
1961–1968: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1969–1987: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
1988–2001: Alternated between the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Shrine Auditorium
2002–2020: Dolby Theatre (also known as Kodak Theatre, 2002–2011; Hollywood and Highland Centre, 2012)
2021: Union Station
2022–present: Dolby Theatre

Networks

U.S. network	Years	# of years
NBC	1953–1960	8
ABC	1961–1970	10
NBC	1971–1975	5
ABC	1976–present	47

Ceremonies

Beginning with the 7th Academy Awards, held in February 1935, each year's awards are presented for films that were first shown during the full preceding calendar year from January 1 to December 31 in Los Angeles County, California. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31.^[4] For the 6th ceremony, held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.^[4]

When citing each ceremony, Academy conventions may either list the year(s) of its eligibility period,^[5] or the year in which the ceremony was actually held.^[6]

#	Date	Best Picture	Most awarded film(s)	Number of viewers P2+	HH Rating	Host(s)	Producer(s)	Venue	Broadcast partner(s)
1st	May 16, 1929	Wings	7th Heaven Sunrise	—	—	Douglas Fairbanks	—	The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel	none
2nd	April 3, 1930	The Broadway Melody	The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Broadway Melody Coquette The Divine Lady In Old Arizona The Patriot White Shadows in the South Seas	—	—	William C. deMille	—	Ambassador Hotel	KNX-AM^[a]^[7]
3rd	November 5, 1930	All Quiet on the Western Front	All Quiet on the Western Front The Big House	—	—	Conrad Nagel	—	Ambassador Hotel	KNX-AM^[a]
4th	November 10, 1931	Cimarron	Cimarron	—	—	Lawrence Grant	—	Biltmore Hotel	KHJ-AM^[b]
5th	November 18, 1932	Grand Hotel	Bad Girl The Champ	—	—	Lionel Barrymore Conrad Nagel	—	Ambassador Hotel	KECA-AM^[c]
6th	March 16, 1934	Cavalcade	Cavalcade	—	—	Will Rogers	—	Ambassador Hotel	none
7th	February 27, 1935	It Happened One Night	It Happened One Night	—	—	Irvin S. Cobb	—	Biltmore Hotel
8th	March 5, 1936	Mutiny on the Bounty	The Informer	—	—	Frank Capra	—
9th	March 4, 1937	The Great Ziegfeld	Anthony Adverse	—	—	George Jessel	—
10th	March 10, 1938	The Life of Emile Zola	The Life of Emile Zola	—	—	Bob Burns	—
11th	February 23, 1939	You Can't Take It With You	The Adventures of Robin Hood	—	—	none	—		KHJ-AM^[d]
12th	February 29, 1940	Gone with the Wind	Gone with the Wind	—	—	Bob Hope	—	Ambassador Hotel (Cocoanut Grove)	KNX-AM^[e]
13th	February 27, 1941	Rebecca	The Thief of Bagdad	—	—		—	Biltmore Hotel (Biltmore Bowl)	KECA-AM^[f]
14th	February 26, 1942	How Green Was My Valley	How Green Was My Valley	—	—		—	Biltmore Hotel (Biltmore Bowl)	KNX-AM^[f]
15th	March 4, 1943	Mrs. Miniver	Mrs. Miniver	—	—		—	Ambassador Hotel (Cocoanut Grove)	KNX-AM^[g]
16th	March 2, 1944	Casablanca	The Song of Bernadette	—	—	Jack Benny	—	Grauman's Chinese Theatre	KNX-AM^[h]
17th	March 15, 1945	Going My Way	Going My Way	—	—	Bob Hope John Cromwell	—		ABC Radio^[i]
18th	March 7, 1946	The Lost Weekend	The Lost Weekend	—	—	Bob Hope James Stewart	—
19th	March 13, 1947	The Best Years of Our Lives	The Best Years of Our Lives	—	—	Jack Benny	—	Shrine Auditorium
20th	March 20, 1948	Gentleman's Agreement	Gentleman's Agreement Miracle on 34th Street	—	—	Agnes Moorehead Dick Powell	—	Shrine Auditorium
21st	March 24, 1949	Hamlet	Hamlet	—	—	Robert Montgomery	—	The Academy Theater
22nd	March 23, 1950	All the King's Men	The Heiress	—	—	Paul Douglas	—	Pantages Theatre
23rd	March 29, 1951	All About Eve	All About Eve	—	—	Fred Astaire	—
24th	March 20, 1952	An American in Paris	An American in Paris A Place in the Sun	—	—	Danny Kaye	—
25th	March 19, 1953	The Greatest Show on Earth	The Bad and the Beautiful	40 million	—	Bob Hope Conrad Nagel	—	Pantages Theatre / NBC International Theatre	NBC Radio NBC
26th	March 25, 1954	From Here to Eternity	From Here to Eternity	43 million	—	Donald O'Connor Fredric March	—	Pantages Theatre / NBC Century Theatre
27th	March 30, 1955	On the Waterfront	On the Waterfront	—	—	Bob Hope Thelma Ritter	—
28th	March 21, 1956	Marty	Marty	—	—	Jerry Lewis Claudette Colbert Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Robert Emmett Dolan
29th	March 27, 1957	Around the World in 80 Days	Around the World in 80 Days The King and I	—	—	Jerry Lewis Celeste Holm	Valentine Davies
30th	March 26, 1958	The Bridge on the River Kwai	The Bridge on the River Kwai	—	—	Bob Hope David Niven James Stewart Jack Lemmon Rosalind Russell Donald Duck^[8]	Jerry Wald	Pantages Theatre
31st	April 6, 1959	Gigi	Gigi	—	—	Bob Hope David Niven Tony Randall Mort Sahl Laurence Olivier Jerry Lewis	Jerry Wald
32nd	April 4, 1960	Ben-Hur	Ben-Hur	—	—	Bob Hope	Arthur Freed
33rd	April 17, 1961	The Apartment	The Apartment	—	—			Santa Monica Civic Auditorium	ABC Radio ^[j] ABC
34th	April 9, 1962	West Side Story	West Side Story	—	—
35th	April 8, 1963	Lawrence of Arabia	Lawrence of Arabia	—	—	Frank Sinatra
36th	April 13, 1964	Tom Jones	Cleopatra Tom Jones	—	—	Jack Lemmon	Richard Dunlap George Sidney
37th	April 5, 1965	My Fair Lady	My Fair Lady	—	—	Bob Hope	Joe Pasternak
38th	April 18, 1966	The Sound of Music	Doctor Zhivago The Sound of Music	—	—
39th	April 10, 1967	A Man for All Seasons	A Man for All Seasons	—	—
40th	April 10, 1968	In the Heat of the Night	In the Heat of the Night	—	—		Arthur Freed
41st	April 14, 1969	Oliver!	Oliver!	—	—	none	Gower Champion	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion	ABC
42nd	April 7, 1970	Midnight Cowboy	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	—	43.40		M. J. Frankovich		ABC
43rd	April 15, 1971	Patton	Patton	—	—		Robert Wise		NBC
44th	April 10, 1972	The French Connection	The French Connection	—	—	Helen Hayes Alan King Sammy Davis Jr. Jack Lemmon	Howard W. Koch
45th	March 27, 1973	The Godfather	Cabaret	—	—	Carol Burnett Michael Caine Charlton Heston Rock Hudson	Howard W. Koch
46th	April 2, 1974	The Sting	The Sting	—	—	John Huston Burt Reynolds David Niven Diana Ross	Jack Haley Jr.
47th	April 8, 1975	The Godfather Part II	The Godfather Part II	—	—	Sammy Davis Jr. Bob Hope Shirley MacLaine Frank Sinatra	Howard W. Koch
48th	March 29, 1976	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	—	—	Goldie Hawn Gene Kelly Walter Matthau George Segal Robert Shaw	Howard W. Koch		ABC
49th	March 28, 1977	Rocky	All the President's Men Network	—	—	Warren Beatty Ellen Burstyn Jane Fonda Richard Pryor	William Friedkin
50th	April 3, 1978	Annie Hall	Star Wars	39.73 million	31.10	Bob Hope	Howard W. Koch
51st	April 9, 1979	The Deer Hunter	The Deer Hunter	—	—	Johnny Carson	Jack Haley Jr.
52nd	April 14, 1980	Kramer vs. Kramer	Kramer vs. Kramer	—	—		Howard W. Koch
53rd	March 31, 1981	Ordinary People	Ordinary People	—	—		Norman Jewison
54th	March 29, 1982	Chariots of Fire	Raiders of the Lost Ark	—	—		Howard W. Koch Melvin Frank
55th	April 11, 1983	Gandhi	Gandhi	—	—	Liza Minnelli Dudley Moore Richard Pryor Walter Matthau	Howard W. Koch
56th	April 9, 1984	Terms of Endearment	Terms of Endearment	—	38.00	Johnny Carson	Jack Haley Jr.
57th	March 25, 1985	Amadeus	Amadeus	—	—	Jack Lemmon	Gregory Peck Robert Wise Larry Gelbart Gene Allen
58th	March 24, 1986	Out of Africa	Out of Africa	38.65 million	25.71	Alan Alda Jane Fonda Robin Williams	Stanley Donen
59th	March 30, 1987	Platoon	Platoon	39.72 million	25.94	Chevy Chase Goldie Hawn Paul Hogan	Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
60th	April 11, 1988	The Last Emperor	The Last Emperor	42.04 million	27.80	Chevy Chase	Samuel Goldwyn Jr.	Shrine Auditorium
61st	March 29, 1989	Rain Man	Rain Man Who Framed Roger Rabbit	42.77 million	28.41	none	Allan Carr	Shrine Auditorium
62nd	March 26, 1990	Driving Miss Daisy	Driving Miss Daisy	40.22 million	26.42	Billy Crystal	Gil Cates	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
63rd	March 25, 1991	Dances with Wolves	Dances with Wolves	42.79 million	28.06			Shrine Auditorium
64th	March 30, 1992	The Silence of the Lambs	The Silence of the Lambs	44.41 million	29.80			Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
65th	March 29, 1993	Unforgiven	Unforgiven	45.74 million	31.20
66th	March 21, 1994	Schindler's List	Schindler's List	45.08 million	31.10	Whoopi Goldberg
67th	March 27, 1995	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump	48.28 million	32.50	David Letterman		Shrine Auditorium
68th	March 25, 1996	Braveheart	Braveheart	44.87 million	30.26	Whoopi Goldberg	David Salzman Quincy Jones	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
69th	March 24, 1997	The English Patient	The English Patient	40.08 million	27.35	Billy Crystal	Gil Cates	Shrine Auditorium
70th	March 23, 1998	Titanic	Titanic	55.25 million	34.86	Billy Crystal		Shrine Auditorium
71st	March 21, 1999	Shakespeare in Love	Shakespeare in Love	45.62 million	28.64	Whoopi Goldberg		Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
72nd	March 26, 2000	American Beauty	American Beauty	46.33 million	29.20	Billy Crystal	Richard D. Zanuck Lili Fini Zanuck	Shrine Auditorium
73rd	March 25, 2001	Gladiator	Gladiator	42.94 million	26.22	Steve Martin	Gil Cates	Shrine Auditorium
74th	March 24, 2002	A Beautiful Mind	A Beautiful Mind The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	41.78 million	25.43	Whoopi Goldberg	Laura Ziskin	Kodak Theatre^[k]
75th	March 23, 2003	Chicago	Chicago	33.05 million	20.40	Steve Martin	Gil Cates
76th	February 29, 2004	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	43.53 million	26.03	Billy Crystal	Joe Roth
77th	February 27, 2005	Million Dollar Baby	The Aviator	42.14 million	25.43	Chris Rock	Gil Cates
78th	March 5, 2006	Crash	Brokeback Mountain Crash King Kong Memoirs of a Geisha	38.94 million	23.05	Jon Stewart	Gil Cates
79th	February 25, 2007	The Departed	The Departed	40.18 million	23.62	Ellen DeGeneres	Laura Ziskin
80th	February 24, 2008	No Country for Old Men	No Country for Old Men	32.02 million	18.68	Jon Stewart	Gil Cates
81st	February 22, 2009	Slumdog Millionaire	Slumdog Millionaire	36.32 million	20.59	Hugh Jackman	Bill Condon Laurence Mark
82nd	March 7, 2010	The Hurt Locker	The Hurt Locker	41.71 million	23.33	Steve Martin Alec Baldwin	Bill Mechanic Adam Shankman
83rd	February 27, 2011	The King's Speech	Inception The King's Speech	37.92 million	21.25	James Franco Anne Hathaway	Bruce Cohen Don Mischer
84th	February 26, 2012	The Artist	The Artist Hugo	39.34 million	22.58	Billy Crystal	Brian Grazer Don Mischer	Hollywood and Highland Center^[k]
85th	February 24, 2013	Argo	Life of Pi	40.38 million	23.08	Seth MacFarlane	Craig Zadan Neil Meron	Dolby Theatre
86th	March 2, 2014	12 Years a Slave	Gravity	43.63 million	24.60	Ellen DeGeneres
87th	February 22, 2015	Birdman	Birdman The Grand Budapest Hotel	37.30 million	20.65	Neil Patrick Harris
88th	February 28, 2016	Spotlight	Mad Max: Fury Road	34.43 million	19.37	Chris Rock	David Hill Reginald Hudlin
89th	February 26, 2017	Moonlight	La La Land	33.00 million	18.39	Jimmy Kimmel	Michael De Luca Jennifer Todd
90th	March 4, 2018	The Shape of Water	The Shape of Water	26.62 million	14.87	Jimmy Kimmel	Michael De Luca Jennifer Todd
91st	February 24, 2019	Green Book	Bohemian Rhapsody	29.56 million	16.4	none	Donna Gigliotti Glenn Weiss
92nd	February 9, 2020	Parasite	Parasite	23.64 million	13.59^[9]		Lynette Howell Taylor Stephanie Allain
93rd	April 25, 2021	Nomadland	Nomadland	10.40 million	5.9		Jesse Collins Stacey Sher Steven Soderbergh	Union Station
94th	March 27, 2022	CODA	Dune	16.62 million	9.0	Regina Hall Amy Schumer Wanda Sykes	Will Packer Shayla Cowan	Dolby Theatre
95th	March 12, 2023	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Everything Everywhere All at Once	18.70 million	9.9	Jimmy Kimmel	Ricky Kirshner Glenn Weiss
96th	March 10, 2024	Oppenheimer	Oppenheimer	19.50 million	9.9	Jimmy Kimmel	Raj Kapoor Katy Mullan
97th	March 2, 2025	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Multiple ceremonies hosted

The following individuals have hosted (or co-hosted) the Academy Awards ceremony on two or more occasions.

Host	Number of ceremonies
Bob Hope	19
Billy Crystal	9
Johnny Carson	5
Whoopi Goldberg	4
Jimmy Kimmel
Jack Lemmon
Jerry Lewis	3
Steve Martin
Conrad Nagel
David Niven
Jack Benny	2
Chevy Chase
Sammy Davis Jr.
Ellen DeGeneres
Jane Fonda
Goldie Hawn
Walter Matthau
Richard Pryor
Chris Rock
Frank Sinatra
James Stewart
Jon Stewart

Nominated hosts

The following individuals have hosted (or co-hosted) the Academy Awards ceremony on the same year in which the individual was also a nominee.

Host	Ceremony	Date	Category	Film	Result
David Niven	31st Academy Awards	April 6, 1959	Best Actor	Separate Tables	Won
Michael Caine	45th Academy Awards	March 27, 1973	Best Actor	Sleuth	Nominated
Walter Matthau	48th Academy Awards	March 29, 1976	Best Actor	The Sunshine Boys	Nominated
Paul Hogan	59th Academy Awards	March 30, 1987	Best Original Screenplay	Crocodile Dundee	Nominated
James Franco	83rd Academy Awards	February 27, 2011	Best Actor	127 Hours	Nominated
Seth MacFarlane	85th Academy Awards	February 24, 2013	Best Original Song	Ted	Nominated

Notes

^ ^a ^b One hour of the ceremony was broadcast live.
^ 45 minutes of the ceremony was broadcast live. Simulcast live on CBS network affiliates on the West Coast.
^ 30 minutes of the ceremony was broadcast live. Simulcast live on NBC Blue Network affiliates on the West Coast.
^ About 12 minutes of the ceremony broadcast live. Broadcast of the ceremony was shut down after 12 minutes because KHJ did not have permission to broadcast live. The radio host was whispering the names of the winners as they were announced, out of sight in the balcony. Later in the evening, at the conclusion of the ceremony, KHJ broadcast a full announcement of winners, live from the ceremony venue, as per its original agreement with the Academy.
^ Announcement of winners only at the conclusion of the ceremony, live from the ceremony venue.
^ ^a ^b 30 minutes of the ceremony was broadcast live. Simulcast live on NBC Blue Network affiliates on the West Coast.
^ Partial broadcast.
^ 30 minutes of the ceremony was broadcast live. Ceremony simulcast live on CBS network affiliates on the West Coast.
^ The 17th Academy Awards marked the first coast-to-coast broadcast of the ceremony, and first broadcast of the complete event. All subsequent ceremonies have been broadcast nationally in the USA. This was also the first ceremony in which film clips were used to introduce awards nominees.
^ The 40th Academy Awards ceremony marked the final year that the ceremony was simulcast live on the radio.
^ ^a ^b Then name of the Dolby Theatre

References

^ Scott Bowles (26 February 2008). "Low Oscar Ratings Cue Soul-Searching". USA Today. Retrieved 19 March 2008.
^ Nikki Finke (26 February 2007). "UPDATE: 39.9 Million Watch 79th Oscars". Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily. LA Weekly. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
^ Bill Gorman (8 March 2010). "Academy Awards Averages 41.3 Million Viewers; Most Since 2005". TVbytheNumbers. Archived from the original on 10 March 2010. Retrieved 12 March 2010.
^ ^a ^b Levy, Emanuel (2003). All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards. New York, United States: Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-8264-1452-6.
^ Crouse, Richard (2005). Reel Winners: Movie Award Trivia. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3.
^ "Oscars Ceremonies". oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
^ "An Unofficial History of the Academy Awards on Radio". tripod.com.
^ "Best, worst and weirdest Oscar hosts of all time". CNN. 22 February 2013.
^ Ferguson, LaToya (February 10, 2020). "The 92nd Academy Awards Set a New All-Time Ratings Low". IndieWire. Retrieved March 2, 2020.

External links

The Academy Awards, USA at the Internet Movie Database

Academy Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

Awards of Merit

Proposed awards	Popular Film

Special awards

Governors Awards	Academy Honorary Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Special Achievement Academy Award
Academy Scientific and Technical Awards	Academy Award of Merit (non-competitive) Scientific and Engineering Award Technical Achievement Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Student Awards	Student Academy Award

Former awards

Merit Awards	Assistant Director Dance Direction Sound Editing Story
Special Awards	Academy Juvenile Award

Ceremonies
(years of film release)

Category

v t e Academy Awards lists
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Records Most awards per ceremony
Combined major Academy Awards	Superlatives Big Five All four acting categories
Acting	All nominees Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Non-English acting noms Actor multi-nom years Multi-win actors Multi-nom actors "Oscar love curse"
Directing	Best Director
Film	Winning films Multi-noms in same category Two acting awards for same film Foreign-language wins Foreign-language noms in other categories International Feature nominees International Feature: count by country Best Animated Feature submissions Best Documentary Feature submissions Best Animated Short submissions Best Documentary Short submissions Animated feature noms in other categories
Countries of the nominees	Africa Argentina Australia Austria Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Czech Republic Europe France Germany Greece Hungary India Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan (South) Korea Latin America Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Nordic Pakistan Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia Spain Switzerland United Kingdom
Nominees demographics	Asian Black Hispanic Indigenous Jewish Muslim
Other	Broadcasters Ceremonies Families False names Multi-win years Awards for Walt Disney Posthumous wins and noms Best Picture presenters Trophies on public display Oldest and youngest LGBTQ Women in non-gendered categories
Combined major awards	EGOT Triple Crown of Acting
Category