Get your calendars out, because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced the dates for the next three Oscars ceremonies. The Academy also set the schedule for the 2015 awards season.
The 88th Academy Awards will be held on Feb. 28, 2016. The 89th ceremony will be almost exactly a year later on Feb. 26, 2017.
There will likely be a huge celebration for the 90th Academy Awards, which will be held on March 4, 2018. Hopefully by then, the Academy will have shaken off its recent trend of awarding movies about showbusiness.
Each ceremony will air on ABC, live from the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.
The 2015 Oscars season kicks off on Sunday, Nov. 14 with the Governors Awards, when the honorary Oscars are handed out. Voting for nominees runs from Dec. 30 to Jan. 8, 2016 and the nominees will be announced on Jan. 14.
Final voting runs from Feb. 12 to Feb. 23, with the Scientific and Technical Awards in between on Feb. 13.
Next year’s ceremony will not to be produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who have produced the past three ceremonies. They picked Neil Patrick Harris to host this year’s ceremony, which saw Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Birdman win Best Picture and Best Director.
image of Julianne Moore with her Oscar courtesy of INFphoto.com