As the Oscars 2023 draw near, Hollywood is preparing for its grandest night with a sparkling champagne carpet. This year, Jimmy Kimmel will host the 95th Academy Awards for the third time, but there are exciting novelties in store beyond the new 2023 Oscar nominees. First-time nominees dominate the ultra-competitive best-actor category, while a heavily pregnant Rihanna will debut with a live performance. To prevent any mishaps, the Academy has also assembled a unique “crisis team” to avoid a repeat of last year’s infamous incident.
When do the Oscars start?
The Oscars take place on Sunday, March 12th, 2023 at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT.
How to Watch the Oscars 2023
The Oscars 20223 air on Sunday, March 12, on ABC. You can watch the ceremony live on TV at your local ABC affiliate, or online at abc.com (or through the ABC app) by signing in with a participating television provider. (Details on various providers can be found here.) If you’ve cut ties with cable, streaming options include Hulu + Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV, Sling TV, or FuboTV, many of which come with free trial options. Best news of all? This year, Roku is offering the Oscars for free on the ABC news channel—no subscriptions required.
Who is hosting the Oscars 2023?
Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars for the third time after previously leading the ceremony in 2017 and 2018. The 95th Academy Awards will also see the return to the event’s solo host format, as the past several events either featured no host or a group of co-hosts like we saw last year with Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes.
What are this year’s nominations?
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Tár, and Top Gun: Maverick, are just some of the films nominated for Best Picture. Meanwhile, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, Brendan Fraser, Colin Farrell, and Jamie Lee Curtis are up for awards for their roles in each of the films they starred in.
Where to Watch the Oscars 2023 Red Carpet
The Oscars are a marathon, not a sprint. As such, awards festivities begin hours before the actual telecast. ABC’s On the Red Carpet Live! The countdown to Oscars 95 begins at 1 .p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on the ABC News Live website. Then, Ashley Graham, Vanessa Hudgens, and Lilly Singh will join forces to host the Countdown to the Oscars lead-in, which begins at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on ABC. Over on E!, Live From the Red Carpet coverage with host Laverne Cox will start at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.
What else can I expect?
Aside from Rihanna’s performance of “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, you might also notice something a bit different when you see this year’s red carpet — namely that it’s not actually red.
For the first time in over six decades, the Oscars will replace its red carpet with a champagne-colored one, apparently to offset the shadows cast by the tent that will be covering the carpet due to a chance of rain, according to the Associated Press.