When are the 2025 Oscars? What we know as Conan O’Brien named as host

Hollywood’s biggest night gets a sequel, its 97th to be precise

Simon Bland
Updated ·3-min read
An Oscar statue is seen on the red carpet during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 10, 2024. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
The date has been set for the 2025 Oscars. (Getty Images)

The journey to the 97th Academy Awards ceremony has officially begun with movie fans across the world starting to show light signs of Oscar fever.

It may feel like 2024’s event only recently took place but with a steady flow of movies hitting cinema screens and streaming outlets each and every week, pop-culture conversation is slowly starting to turn towards a new batch of heavy hitters.

This year’s event saw late night face Jimmy Kimmel on hosting duty, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things battling it out for Oscars supremacy. As it turned out, the latter ended up walking away with the most statuettes and with zero controversies in between card openings, it was generally considered to be a successful night.

Can the 2025 Oscars keep up the trend? Here’s what we know about it so far.

Cillian Murphy, winner of the Best Actor in a Leading Role award, at the 2024 Oscars
Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor award for Oppenheimer at the 2024 Oscars. (FilmMagic)

The 2025 Oscars will take place on Sunday, 2 March 2024, with the action streamed across American channel ABC from 4pm Pacific Time live from Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre.

Movie fans in the UK will once again be able to watch the action live although exact details of where this will air and what time coverage will begin has yet to be confirmed. 2024’s ceremony was aired on ITV and ITVX with as-it-happens coverage starting from 11pm GMT. 2025’s event will likely get the same treatment.

Conan O'Brien attends the Saban Community Clinic's 48th annual gala
Conan O’Brien will host the 2025 Oscars. (Getty)

The 2025 Oscars will be hosted by late-night frontman Conan O’Brien. He said: “America demanded it, and now it’s happening: Taco Bell’s new Cheesy Chalupa Supreme. In other news, I’m hosting the Oscars.”

Oscars executive producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan said: “Conan has all the qualities of a great Oscars host — he is incredibly witty, charismatic and funny and has proven himself to be a master of live event television.

“We are so looking forward to working with him to deliver a fresh, exciting and celebratory show for Hollywood’s biggest night.”

Jimmy Kimmel previously helmed the ceremony in 2023 and 2024, as well as in 2017 and 2018 and again in 2023 and 2024. He was present during the now-infamous Best Picture slip-up in 2017 where the musical La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner instead of the drama Moonlight.

Timothee Chalamet in A Complete Unknown
Could A Complete Unknown be in the Oscar race? (Searchlight Pictures)

The nominations for the 2025 Oscars will be unveiled on 17 January 2025 with voting officially closing just a few days earlier on 12 January.

Until then, we won’t know for sure who might be in the running for the night’s biggest awards. However, 2024 has been a year of interesting releases, with many outlets suggesting films like Sean Baker’s Anora, Netflix musical Emilia Perez, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 and James Mangold’s Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown could be in the running.

However, at this stage, it really is anyone’s guess as to who might win big.

The 97th Academy Awards Ceremony takes place on Sunday 2 March 2025.

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