When are the Oscars 2023? What TV channel is it on? Who are nominees and favorites to win BIG!

The Oscars are regarded as the most prestigious awards in the entertainment industry. The 95th Academy Awards will be no exception as the highly-anticipated night will be honoring artistic and technical merit for the American film industry. The annual event also signifies the end of awards season.

When are the Oscars 2023?

 The 95th Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 12 at 8pm EST/5pm PST.

What TV channel is the show on?

 The ceremony will air live on ABC and will also simultaneously be available to watch on a variety of platforms including ABC.com and ABC app with cable subscription to access. Other ways to watch include Hulu, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV.

Where are the 95th Academy Awards being held? 

The star-studded ceremony will take place at iconic Dolby Theatre in Hollywood where it is being held for the 21st consecutive year including a broadcast where it took place between there and a satellite location taking place at Union Station which is also in Los Angeles.

Who are this year’s nominees?

Who are the favorites to win BIG?

Everything Everywhere All At Once will be a favorite in many categories including top honor Best Picture. According to betting site OddsChecker  the American absurdist comedy-drama film is a heavy-favorite at 1/6 odds to take home the top prize at the end of the night. 

Far behind were All Quiet On The Western Front with 14/1 and The Banshees of Inisherin with 16/1. Comeback kid Ke Huy Quan from the film is the very heavy-favorite to take home the Best Supporting Actor gong with 1/20 odds.

The film is also a major favorite in the Best Director category as their directors  Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert AKA The Daniels are the favorite at 1/9 with Steven Spielberg trailing far behind at 15/2.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio seems to be a lock for Best Animated Feature Film as it has 1/10 odds with both Marcel The Shell With Shoes On and Puss In Boots: The Last Wish trailing far behind at 16/1.

Perhaps the heaviest favorite of the night comes in the Best International Feature Film with All Quiet On The Western Front being the heavy favorite at 1/14 with The Quiet Girl at 14/1.

James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way Of The Water has similar odds in the Visual Effects category at 1/14 with Top Gun: Maverick trailing at 12/1.

Winning EVERYTHING!?Everything Everywhere All At Once will be a favorite in many categories including top honor Best Picture as it is a heavy-favorite at 1/6 odds

What Oscars races have razor-thin odds margins?

Three of the major four acting categories will be very contentious leading up to Oscars night including Best Actor and Actress. 

In the coveted Best Actress category, Oscars-staple Cate Blanchett is the favorite at 1/1 for Tar with Everything Everywhere All At Once’s Michelle Yeoh closely following behind at 11/8. 

Much more contentious will be the Best Actor category as The Whale’s Brandan Fraser is the favorite at 5/7 while Austin Butler trails with 7/5 odds for his titular role in Elvis.

Another very close category is Best Supporting actress with three contenders including Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All At Once at 2/1, Kerry Condon for The Banshees Of Inisherin at 11/4, and Angela Bassett for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at 3/2.

At last year’s ceremony Chris Rock was infamously slapped by Will Smith after the comedian cracked a joke about the actor’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith

What is ‘the slap’? 

At last year’s ceremony Chris Rock was infamously slapped by Will Smith after the comedian cracked a joke about the actor’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

Rock was presenting the Oscar for Best Documentary during the event at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood when he joked about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head.

He compared her to the shaved head look of Demi Moore in the 1997 movie G.I. Jane. Pinkett Smith suffers from alopecia and did not laugh at the joke.

Smith then approached the stage and slapped Rock hard across the face with his right hand.

‘Will Smith just smacked the s*** out of me,’ Rock said from the stage after being hit.

Smith returned to his seat next to his wife after the outburst and yelled at the comic.

‘Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth!,’ Smith twice shouted at a shocked Rock. 

Smith later won the Oscar for Best Actor for his work in King Richard after the incident.

What was Will Smith’s punishment for ‘the slap’?

 On April 8 it was announced that was banned from the Oscars for 10 years for slapping Chris Rock, but will be allowed to keep his award for Best Actor.

In a statement, the Academy blasted Smiths ‘unacceptable’ and ‘harmful’ behavior that ‘overshadowed’ the entire evening.

‘During our telecast, we did not adequately address the situation in the room. For this, we are sorry. This was an opportunity for us to set an example for our guests, viewers and our Academy family around the world, and we fell short — unprepared for the unprecedented.

‘The Board has decided, for a period of 10 years from April 8, 2022, Mr. Smith shall not be permitted to attend any Academy events or programs, in person or virtually, including but not limited to the Academy Awards.

‘We want to express our deep gratitude to Mr. Rock for maintaining his composure under extraordinary circumstances. We also want to thank our hosts, nominees, presenters and winners for their poise and grace during our telecast.’

In a statement on Friday afternoon after the decision was reached, Smith told Deadline at the time: ‘I accept and respect the Academy’s decision.’

He had already resigned from the Academy last Friday, taking the decision out of their hands to rescind his membership is it did with Harvey Weinstein. Smith’s wife Jada will still be allowed to attend in-person events.

Nearly one year after the incident Chris Rock ‘s long-awaited public response to being slapped by actor Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars has been met with high praise – with some calling it the ‘best brutal takedown’ in history 

Did Chris Rock FINALLY address ‘the slap’?

Nearly one year after the incident Chris Rock’s long-awaited public response to being slapped by actor Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars has been met with high praise – with some calling it the ‘best brutal takedown’ in history. 

During his new Netflix standup special which premiered live Saturday night (March 4), Rock verbally hit back at Smith a year after the incident that saw Smith banned from the Academy.  

In a nearly two minute segment, Rock fired off at Smith’s decision to slap him on stage at the awards ceremony, making Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith the butt of his joke about her infidelity.

‘Everybody called him a b**ch, and who’s he hitting? Me,’ Rock joked to a crowd in Baltimore, Maryland.

Rock’s rant has since been applauded on social media as ‘the perfect/best way’ to get back at Smith for the moment that changed both of their careers. 

The comedian made audience members and live viewers wait until the last ten minutes of ‘Chris Rock: Selective Outrage’ before he addressed the slap. 

‘You all know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith,’ the comedian joked. Rock said: ‘It still hurts. I got ‘Summertime’ ringing in my ears.’

The slap occurred last year after Rock made a joke about Pinkett-Smith’s bald head, caused by alopecia. 

Rock had joked that Pinkett-Smith was rocking a ‘G.I. Jane’ look which caused her husband to storm the stage and slap him, followed by him repeating: ‘Keep my wife’s name out your f***ing mouth!’

During his new standup special, Rock joked about his struggle in the year since. 

‘Anybody that say “words hurt” has never been punched in the face,’ he said. 

‘But I’m not a victim, baby. You’ll never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying,’ Rock said. He joked that he ‘took that s**t like [Manny] Pacquiao.’