The Oscars on television — dates, times, networks, hosts since first broadcast in 1953
Posted: May 2026
List of dates, run times, venues, networks and hosts of Oscars broadcasts since the first in 1953. The primary sources are published newspaper accounts of the ceremonies — previews and recaps, as well as the dates and venues listed at Oscars.org. Another source is the 1987 book Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards by Mason Wiley & Damien Bona. Dates and start times are easily verifiable. Start times below are local Los Angeles time. Scheduled run times, which began in 1953 at 90 minutes and have gradually grown to 3 hours, 30 minutes, have rarely been publicized, either in preview stories or advertisements for the show, or taken seriously; this page cites published newspaper TV listings and “TV highlights” descriptions, typically listings are in column format in early years and in grid format in recent decades. In early years, listings may include obvious oversights, such as the Academy Awards beginning at 10 p.m. Eastern time and regular news broadcasts still listed that night on the same channel at 11 p.m.
Actual Oscars run times are listed here for some of the broadcasts, generally the more recent ones, when published in articles by news organizations or in overnight newspaper reviews of the ceremonies. (Run times listed in the Internet Movie Database, as well as certain dates, often do not match published accounts.) Sometimes estimates vary. Exactly when the broadcast begins and ends is subjective. Whether the publication received the “official” time from AMPAS or the broadcast network, or the writer simply checked his/her watch, is never disclosed. Even 2020s articles by Hollywood trade papers, major newspapers and wire services do not indicate the source of the run time. Some of the run time descriptions dating back to the 1950s are clearly made by writers working under a tight deadline.
For nearly three decades, from the 1970s through the 1990s, most Oscar ceremonies were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The pavilion, one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center, is named after Dorothy Buffum Chandler, a prominent Los Angeles philanthropist who died in 1997; she was the wife of Norman Chandler and mother of Otis Chandler, publishers of the Los Angeles Times.
Years reflect the actual dates of the ceremonies, not the (previous) year for which the movies and performances are being judged:
2026 (98th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 15, 4 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3½ hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 40 minutes, per PBS; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Host: Conan O’Brien; Films with most Oscar nominations: Sinners, 16, One Battle After Another, 13; Best Picture: One Battle After Another
2025 (97th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 2, 4 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3½ hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings,
aired 3 hours, 50 minutes; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Host: Conan O’Brien; Films with most Oscar nominations: Emilia Pérez, 13, The Brutalist, 10, Wicked, 10; Best Picture: Anora
2024 (96th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 10, 4 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3½ hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 23 minutes; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Host: Jimmy Kimmel; Films with most Oscar nominations: Oppenheimer, 13, Poor Things, 11; Best Picture: Oppenheimer
2023 (95th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 12, 5 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 35 minutes, per Los Angeles Times; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Host: Jimmy Kimmel; Films with most Oscar nominations: Everything Everywhere All at Once, 11, All Quiet on the Western Front, 9, The Banshees of Inisherin, 9; Best Picture: Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022 (94th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 27, 5 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 40 minutes, per The Hollywood Reporter; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Hosts: Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Power of the Dog, 12, Dune, 10; Best Picture: CODA
2021 (93rd Academy Awards) — Sunday, April 25, 5 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 19 minutes, per New York Times; Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; no host; Films with most Oscar nominations: Mank, 10, The Father, 6, Judas and the Black Messiah, 6, Minari, 6, Nomadland, 6, Sound of Metal, 6, The Trial of the Chicago 7, 6; Best Picture: Nomadland
2020 (92nd Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 36 minutes, per Deadline; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; no host; Films with most Oscar nominations: Films with most Oscar nominations: Joker, 11, 1917, 10, The Irishman, 10, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, 10; Best Picture: Parasite
Grace Kelly, presenting the Best Actor award at the 1956 Oscars,
receives the already-opened envelope, the practice until the 1960s
2019 (91st Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 21 minutes, per The Wrap; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; no host; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Favourite, 10, Roma, 10; Best Picture: Green Book
2018 (90th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 4, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 53 minutes, per Variety Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Jimmy Kimmel; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Shape of Water, 13, Dunkirk, 8; Best Picture: The Shape of Water
2017 (89th Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran “a few minutes past midnight,” or slightly longer than 3.5 hours, per Reuters; ran 3 hours, 49 minutes; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Jimmy Kimmel; Films with most Oscar nominations: La La Land, 14, Arrival, 8, Moonlight, 8; Best Picture: Moonlight
2016 (88th Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 28, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 37 minutes per Variety; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Chris Rock; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Revenant, 12, Mad Max: Fury Road, 10; Best Picture: Spotlight
2015 (87th Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 43 minutes; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Neil Patrick Harris; Films with most Oscar nominations: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), 9, The Grand Budapest Hotel, 9; Best Picture: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014 (86th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 2, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 34 minutes, per Variety; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Ellen DeGeneres; Films with most Oscar nominations: American Hustle, 10, Gravity, 10; Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
2013 (85th Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings, ran 3 hours, 35 minutes, per Variety; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Seth MacFarlane; Films with most Oscar nominations: Lincoln, 12, Life of Pi, 11; Best Picture: Argo
2012 (84th Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings, aired 3 hours, 13 minutes, per Variety; Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Films with most Oscar nominations: Hugo, 11, The Artist, 10; Best Picture: The Artist
2011 (83rd Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 27, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings, ran 3 hours, 16 minutes, per Variety; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Hosts: James Franco, Anne Hathaway; Films with most Oscar nominations: The King’s Speech, 12, True Grit, 10; Best Picture: The King’s Speech
Tony Randall and Tina Louise present Oscars for Art Direction and Set Decoration
at the 1961 Oscars; note the statues on a rack and the oversized podium
2010 (82nd Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 7, 5:30 p.m., ABC, ran 3 hours, 37 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Hosts: Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin; Films with most Oscar nominations: Avatar, 9, The Hurt Locker, 9; Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
2009 (81st Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Chicago Tribune TV listings, aired 3 hours, 30 minutes, per IMDB; “The Academy didn’t bring it in under 3½ hours,” writes Roger Ebert, “It was the best Oscar show I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen plenty,” writes Roger Ebert; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Hugh Jackman; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 13, Slumdog Millionaire, 10; Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
2008 (80th Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Bangor Daily News TV listings, scheduled for 3 hours, 15 minutes per Hollywood Reporter, aired for 3 hours, 17 minutes; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Jon Stewart; Films with most Oscar nominations: No Country For Old Men, 8, There Will Be Blood, 8; Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
2007 (79th Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 25, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Toledo Blade TV listings, aired 3 hours, 51 minutes; aired 3 hours, 52 minutes per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Ellen DeGeneres; Films with most Oscar nominations: Babel, 6, Dreamgirls, 6, Pan’s Labyrinth, 6, The Queen, 6; Best Picture: The Departed
2006 (78th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 5, 5 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Toledo Blade TV listings, aired 3 hours, 34 minutes, per IMDB; aired 3 hours, 33 minutes, per Entertainment Weekly, Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Jon Stewart; Films with most Oscar nominations: Brokeback Mountain, 8, Crash, 6, Memoirs of a Geisha, 6, Good Night, and Good Luck., 6; Best Picture: Crash
2005 (77th Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 27, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per The Fort Scott Tribune TV listings, aired 3 hours, 14 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Chris Rock; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Aviator, 11, Million Dollar Baby, 7, Finding Neverland, 7; Best Picture: Million Dollar Baby
2004 (76th Academy Awards) — Sunday, Feb. 29, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Telegraph Herald TV listings, aired 3 hours, 45 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 11; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 10; Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 (75th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 23, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Portsmouth Daily Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 30 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Steve Martin; Films with most Oscar nominations: Chicago, 13, Gangs of New York, 10; Best Picture: Chicago
2002 (74th Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 24, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 4 hours, 23 minutes; aired 4 hours, 16 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles: Host: Whoopi Goldberg; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 13, A Beautiful Mind, 8, Moulin Rouge!, 8; Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind
2001 (73rd Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 25, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired for 3 hours, 23 minutes per Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; Host: Steve Martin; Films with most Oscar nominations: Gladiator, 12, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 10; Best Picture: Gladiator
2000 (72nd Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 26, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 4 hours, 9 minutes; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Films with most Oscar nominations: American Beauty, 8, The Cider House Rules, 7, The Insider, 7; Best Picture: American Beauty
1999 (71st Academy Awards) — Sunday, March 21, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings, aired 4 hours, 2 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Whoopi Goldberg; Films with most Oscar nominations: Shakespeare in Love, 13, Saving Private Ryan, 11; Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love
1998 (70th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 23, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 47 minutes; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Films with most Oscar nominations: Titanic, 14, Good Will Hunting, 9, L.A. Confidential, 9; Best Picture: Titanic
1997 (69th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 24, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV grid; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Films with most Oscar nominations: The English Patient, 12, Fargo, 7, Shine, 7; Best Picture: The English Patient
1996 (68th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 25, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Whoopi Goldberg; Films with most Oscar nominations: Braveheart, 10, Apollo 13, 9; Best Picture: Braveheart
1995 (67th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 27, 6 p.m., ABC, Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 35 minutes, per IMDB; Host: David Letterman; Films with most Oscar nominations: Forrest Gump, 13, Bullets Over Broadway, 7, Pulp Fiction, 7, The Shawshank Redemption, 7; Best Picture: Forrest Gump
1994 (66th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 21, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Whoopi Goldberg; Films with most Oscar nominations: Schindler’s List, 12, The Piano, 8, The Remains of the Day, 8; Best Picture: Schindler’s List
1993 (65th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 29, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 16 minutes, per IMDB; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Films with most Oscar nominations: Howards End, 9, Unforgiven, 9; Best Picture: Unforgiven
1992 (64th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 30, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Films with most Oscar nominations: Bugsy, 9, JFK, 8; Best Picture: The Silence of the Lambs
1991 (63rd Academy Awards) — Monday, March 25, 6 p.m., ABC, Shrine Civic Auditorium, scheduled for 3 hours; Host: Billy Crystal; Films with most Oscar nominations: Dances With Wolves, 12, The Godfather Part III, 7, Dick Tracy, 7; Best Picture: Dances With Wolves
1990 (62nd Academy Awards) — Monday, March 26, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Films with most Oscar nominations: Driving Miss Daisy, 9, Born on the Fourth of July, 8; Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy
1989 (61st Academy Awards) — Wednesday, March 29, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 16 minutes, per Dispatch wire services; The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles; Host: none; Films with most Oscar nominations: Rain Man, 8, Dangerous Liaisons, 7, Mississippi Burning, 7, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 7; Best Picture: Rain Man
1988 (60th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 11, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3½ hours, per UPI; aired 3 hours, 25 minutes, per IMDB; The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles; Host: Chevy Chase; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Last Emperor, 9, Broadcast News, 7; Best Picture: The Last Emperor
1987 (59th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 30, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 20 minutes, per Dave Kehr; aired 3 hours, 25 minutes, per IMDB; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Paul Hogan (also a nominee for Best Original Screenplay), Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn; Films with most Oscar nominations: A Room With a View, 8, Platoon, 7, Aliens, 7, Hannah and Her Sisters, 7, The Mission, 7; Best Picture: Platoon
1986 (58th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 24, 6 p.m,., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 15 minutes, per Gene Siskel; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Robin Williams; Films with most Oscar nominations: Out of Africa, 11, The Color Purple, 10; Best Picture: Out of Africa
1985 (57th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 25, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired “just over 3 hours,” according to Chicago Tribune; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Jack Lemmon; Films with most Oscar nominations: Amadeus, 11, A Passage to India, 11; Best Picture: Amadeus
1984 (56th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 9, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired for 3 hours, 45 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; “The telecast got off to an embarrassing start with an upside-down shot of guests arriving,” per Gene Siskel; “many pickets were sighted” in protest of Barbra Streisand not receiving any nominations for “Yentl,” per Gene Siskel; Host: Johnny Carson; Films with most Oscar nominations: Terms of Endearment, 11, The Right Stuff, 8; Best Picture: Terms of Endearment
1983 (55th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 11, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor; Films with most Oscar nominations: Gandhi, 11, Tootsie, 10; Best Picture: Gandhi
1982 (54th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 29, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Johnny Carson; Films with most Oscar nominations: Reds, 12, On Golden Pond, 10; Best Picture: Chariots of Fire
1981 (53rd Academy Awards) — Tuesday, March 31 (delayed one day because of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan), 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Johnny Carson; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Elephant Man, 8, Raging Bull, 8; Best Picture: Ordinary People
1980 (52nd Academy Awards) — Monday, April 14, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Johnny Carson; Films with most Oscar nominations: All That Jazz, 9, Kramer vs. Kramer, 9; Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 (51st Academy Awards) — Monday, April 9, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Johnny Carson; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Deer Hunter, 9, Heaven Can Wait, 9; Best Picture: The Deer Hunter
1978 (50th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 3, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes per local TV listings; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Bob Hope; Films with most Oscar nominations: Julia, 11, The Turning Point, 11; Best Picture: Annie Hall
1977 (49th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 28, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes, per Chicago Tribune TV listings; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Warren Beatty; Films with most Oscar nominations: Network, 10, Rocky, 10; Best Picture: Rocky
1976 (48th Academy Awards) — Monday, March 29, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly; Films with most Oscar nominations: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 9, Barry Lyndon, 7; Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1975 (47th Academy Awards) — Tuesday, April 8, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours per Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra; Films with most Oscar nominations: Chinatown, 10, The Godfather Part II, 10; Best Picture: The Godfather Part II
1974 (46th Academy Awards) — Tuesday, April 2, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, David Niven; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Exorcist, 10, The Sting, 10; Best Picture: The Sting
1973 (45th Academy Awards) — Tuesday, March 27, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Godfather, 11, Cabaret, 10; Best Picture: The Godfather
1972 (44th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 10, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Lemmon; Films with most Oscar nominations: The French Connection, 8, The Last Picture Show, 8, Fiddler on the Roof, 8; Best Picture: The French Connection
1971 (43rd Academy Awards) — Thursday, April 15, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: According to the Associated Press, in place of a single emcee, “so-called best friends of Oscar”; according to Inside Oscar, Burt Bacharach, Harry Belafonte, Richard Benjamin, Joan Blondell, Jim Brown, Genevieve Bujold, Glen Campbell, Petula Clark, Angie Dickinson, Melvyn Douglas, Lola Falana, Janet Gaynor, Goldie Hawn, Bob Hope, John Huston, James Earl Jones, Shirley Jones, Sally Kellerman, Burt Lancaster, John Marley, Walter Matthau, Steve McQueen, Sarah Miles, Ricardo Montalban, Jeanne Moreau, Merle Oberon, Ryan O’Neal, Gregory Peck, Paula Prentiss, Eva Marie Saint, George Segal, Maggie Smith, Gig Young; Films with most Oscar nominations: Patton, 10, Airport, 10; Best Picture: Patton
1970 (42nd Academy Awards) — Tuesday, April 7, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours per Associated Press, according to Inside Oscar, Bob Hope said afterwards, “The show ran 2 hours, 20 minutes — which is the longest any show has run on ABC without being canceled.” Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: The Friends of Oscar. According to Inside Oscar, there were 16 friends: Claudia Cardinale, Elliott Gould, Myrna Loy, Barbara McNair, Jon Voight, Fred Astaire, Elizabeth Taylor, Ali MacGraw, Cliff Robertson, Katharine Ross, James Earl Jones, Candice Bergen, Raquel Welch, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Bob Hope. According to the Associated Press, there were 17 “presenters,” the same list but also including Barbra Streisand, who presented the Best Actor award to John Wayne; Films with most Oscar nominations: Anne of the Thousand Days, 10, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, 9; Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy
1969 (41st Academy Awards) — Monday, April 14, 7 p.m., ABC, planned for 2 hours, per Bob Thomas, Associated Press, citing director Gower Champion: "Originally, he had hoped to limit the show to 90 minutes; now, he expects it to run two hours." Thomas adds, "Ceremonies in other years have usually lasted 2½ hours or more"; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: The Friends of Oscar, per Inside Oscar and also per Bob Thomas, Associated Press, citing director Gower Champion: Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Poitier, Jane Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Wood, Walter Matthau, Diahann Carroll, Tony Curtis, Rosalind Russell, Burt Lancaster; Films with most Oscar nominations: Oliver!, 12, Funny Girl, 8; Best Picture: Oliver!
1968 (40th Academy Awards) — Wednesday, April 10 (delayed two days in the week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for "at least two hours" per local newspaper description of TV highlights, ran 2 hours, 31 minutes, per newspaper account a year later; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Films with most Oscar nominations: Bonnie and Clyde, 10, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, 19l Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night
1967 (39th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 10, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, AFTRA strike settled 90 minutes before show time, per Associated Press; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Films with most Oscar nominations: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 13, A Man for all Seasons, 8, The Sand Pebbles, 8; Best Picture: A Man For All Seasons
1966 (38th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 18, 7 p.m., first broadcast in color, ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, per local TV listings; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Sound of Music, 10, Doctor Zhivago, 10; Best Picture: The Sound of Music
1965 (37th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 5, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours per local TV listings, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes, per local TV description; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Films with most Oscar nominations: Mary Poppins, 13, My Fair Lady, 12; Best Picture: My Fair Lady
1964 (36th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 13, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes, per local TV listings and description; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Jack Lemmon; Films with most Oscar nominations: Tom Jones, 10, Cleopatra, 9; Best Picture: Tom Jones
1963 (35th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 8, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes per local TV listings; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Frank Sinatra; Films with most Oscar nominations: Lawrence of Arabia, 10, To Kill a Mockingbird, 8; Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
1962 (34th Academy Awards) — Monday, April 9, 7:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, per local TV listings and description; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Films with most Oscar nominations: West Side Story, 11, Judgment at Nuremberg, 11; Best Picture: West Side Story
1961 (33rd Academy Awards) — Monday, April 17, 7:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, per James Bacon of the Associated Press and per local TV listings, ran for 90 minutes, per Bacon; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Films with most Oscar nominations: The Apartment, 10, Sons and Lovers, 7, Pepe, 7; Best Picture: The Apartment
1960 (32nd Academy Awards) — Monday, April 4, 7:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 90 minutes per local TV listings and advertisement in movie section; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood; Host: Bob Hope; Films with most Oscar nominations: Ben-Hur, 12, The Diary of Anne Frank, 8, The Nun’s Story, 8; Best Picture: Ben-Hur
1959 (31st Academy Awards) — Monday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours per James Bacon, Associated Press, ran for 1 hour, 40 minutes, per Bacon; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood; Hosts: Bob Hope, David Niven, Tony Randall, Mort Sahl, Laurence Olivier, Jerry Lewis; Films with most Oscar nominations: Gigi, 9, The Defiant Ones, 8; Best Picture: Gigi
1958 (30th Academy Awards) — Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 45 minutes per NBC advertisement; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood; Hosts: James Stewart, Bob Hope, Rosalind Russell, David Niven, Jack Lemmon; Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai; Films with most Oscar nominations: Sayonara, 10, The Bridge on the River Kwai, 8; Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 (29th Academy Awards) — Wednesday, March 27, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 45 minutes per local TV listing; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Hosts: Jerry Lewis in Hollywod, Celeste Holm in New York; Films with most Oscar nominations: Giant, 9, The King and I, 9; Best Picture: Around the World in 80 Days
1956 (28th Academy Awards) — Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 30 minutes per local TV listing; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Hosts: Jerry Lewis in Hollywood, Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz in New York; Films with most Oscar nominations: Marty, 8, The Rose Tattoo, 8, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, 8; Best Picture: Marty
1955 (27th Academy Awards) — Wednesday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 30 minutes per local TV listing; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Hosts: Bob Hope in Hollywood, Thelma Ritter in New York; Films with most Oscar nominations: On the Waterfront, 10, The Country Girl, 7, The Caine Mutiny, 7; Best Picture: On the Waterfront
1954 (26th Academy Awards) — Thursday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 30 minutes per local TV listing; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Hosts: Donald O’Connor in Hollywood, Fredric March in New York; Films with most Oscar nominations: From Here to Eternity, 12, Roman Holiday, 10; Best Picture: From Here to Eternity
1953 (25th Academy Awards) — Thursday, March 19, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 30 minutes per local TV listing, RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Roger Ebert writes, “That year I listened on the radio, in the hospital, after having my appendix removed, and it seemed to me that the Academy Awards were unimaginably distant and grand. ... Listening on the radio made them seem so glamorous in my mind’s eye that the real thing has never quite equaled the images in my imagination that night”; Hosts: Bob Hope in Hollywood, Conrad Nagel in New York; Films with most Oscar nominations: High Noon, 7, Moulin Rouge, 7, The Quiet Man, 7; Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth