How To Watch The 2026 Oscars And Everything Else You Need To Know

Get your ballots ready, nan 2026 Oscars are astir nan corner.

The 98th Academy Awards will beryllium held Sunday astatine nan Dolby Theatre successful Los Angeles, wherever Hollywood’s biggest names will observe nan champion films of nan twelvemonth for a last time.

Will “Sinners” people large pursuing its record-breaking 16 nominations? Can Timothée Chalamet propulsion disconnected a triumph for “Marty Supreme”? Will “One Battle After Another” proceed its adjacent awards-season expanse for champion picture? Tune successful to nan 2026 Oscars to find out.

When is nan show?

The 98th Academy Awards will beryllium held Sunday astatine nan Dolby Theatre astatine Ovation Hollywood. The show will footwear disconnected astatine 4 p.m. Pacific.

How tin I watch nan Oscars?

The 2026 Oscars will aerial connected ABC, and those pinch cablegram subscriptions tin besides watch nan show by logging into nan ABC app aliases abc.com. The telecast will besides watercourse unrecorded connected Hulu, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV. Internationally, nan ceremonial will beryllium broadcast successful much than 200 territories. You tin cheque your section listings here.

The show will stream exclusively connected YouTube starting successful 2029.

How tin I watch nan reddish carpet?

“Chicken Shop Date” big Amelia Dimoldenberg will return, for nan 3rd twelvemonth successful a row, arsenic societal media ambassador and analogous for nan charismatic reddish carpet, which will footwear disconnected astatine 3:30 p.m. connected ABC and Hulu.

For extended coverage, E! will statesman its reddish carpet broadcast astatine 1 p.m. ABC’s sum originates astatine 12:30 p.m., followed by “The Oscars Red Carpet Show,” hosted by Tamron Hall and Jesse Palmer.

Who is hosting nan Oscars?

Conan O’Brien will big nan awards for his 2nd consecutive year. The comedian’s return was announced little than a period aft nan 2025 Oscars. O’Brien told the New Yorker successful February that he’s been going to drama clubs to trial worldly for nan show.

“I grew up watching Bob Hope do it, Johnny Carson do it. So it’s a very cool point to beryllium connected to. As you know, I’m very willing successful history, and this point has been astir for a 100 years — almost a 100 years — truthful let’s person nosy pinch it, is my attitude,” O’Brien said.

What is nominated?

Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” collapsed nan grounds for astir Oscar nominations for a azygous movie pinch 16, including acting nods for Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku. Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” trailed intimately down pinch 13 nominations and Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” snagged 9 nominations.

Who are nan champion image contenders?

“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”

Check retired nan complete database of nominees here.

Who is performing?

The academy will limit performances from nan original opus class to conscionable 2 of nan 5 nominees. According to a missive sent to nominees obtained by Variety, show producers explained that only 2 songs were chosen because of their “defining domiciled successful their world taste effect and assemblage relationship this year.”

“Given nan constricted clip wrong nan broadcast, nan summation of our Casting Oscar, and a desire to create a fast-paced, entertaining and cohesive show, nan unrecorded capacity attraction will beryllium concentrated connected 2 philharmonic moments this year,” nan missive explained.

Miles Caton and Raphael Saadiq from “Sinners” will execute “I Lied to You” alongside Misty Copeland, Eric Gales, Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Bobby Rush, Shaboozey and Alice Smith. “KPop Demon Hunters” singers Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami will return to nan shape to execute “Golden.”

In summation to nan euphony “moments,” nan show will see appearances by Josh Groban and nan Los Angeles Master Chorale.

Barbra Streisand will besides reportedly execute a tribute to her “The Way We Were” co-star Robert Redford during nan In Memoriam segment. Josh Groban and nan Los Angeles Master Chorale will besides execute astatine nan ceremony, though their domiciled has not yet been disclosed.

Who is presenting?

Last year’s acting winners, Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), Mikey Madison (“Anora”) and Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Perez”), will coming this year’s awards.

Other presenters see Javier Bardem, Chris Evans, Chase Infiniti, Demi Moore, Kumail Nanjiani, Maya Rudolph, Will Arnett, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway, Paul Mescal and Gwyneth Paltrow.

What should I cognize astir nan parties?

Elton John’s yearly viewing party, hosted by John, David Furnish, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, will characteristic a capacity by “Messy” vocalist and caller Grammy victor Lola Young.

The charismatic Oscars after-party, nan Governors Ball, will commencement instantly aft nan ceremony. The arena boasts a paper created by Wolfgang Puck and signature cocktails by mixologist Charles Joly.

The 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party moved to nan Los Angeles County Museum of Art this twelvemonth and will beryllium held astatine nan caller David Geffen Galleries.

Which roads will beryllium closed arsenic a consequence of nan Oscars?

Streets astir nan Dolby Theatre began closing for nan Oscars earlier this month, including Johnny Grant Way, Orange Drive and Hollywood Boulevard. On Sunday, sections of Hollywood will adjacent for nan awards show. Maps of roadworthy closures tin beryllium viewed here.

These roads and sidewalks will beryllium closed from 12:01 a.m. Sunday done 6 a.m. Monday:

• Hawthorn Alley from Orange Drive to Highland Avenue
• Orange Drive from Hollywood Boulevard to Lanewood Avenue
• North sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard from Highland Avenue to 300 feet eastbound of Highland Avenue (no pedestrian access)
• South sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard from Highland Avenue to 300 feet eastbound of Highland Avenue (8-foot pedestrian access)
• South sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard straight successful beforehand of nan north-south Hawthorn Alley (no pedestrian entree to transverse alley)
• East sidewalk and curb lane of Highland Avenue from Yucca Street to Sunset Boulevard (8-foot pedestrian access, 300 feet southbound of Hollywood Boulevard only)
• West sidewalk of Highland Avenue from Hollywood Boulevard to Sunset Boulevard
• West curb of Highland Avenue from Johnny Grant Way to Hollywood Boulevard

These roads and sidewalks will beryllium closed from 4 a.m. Sunday done 4 a.m. Monday:

• North and southbound crosswalks connected Hollywood Boulevard astatine nan Highland Avenue intersection
• Highland Avenue from Sunset Boulevard to Franklin Avenue
• Hollywood Boulevard from La Brea Avenue to Orange Drive
• Hollywood Boulevard from Highland Avenue to Cahuenga Boulevard.

These roads and sidewalks will beryllium constricted to section residents, business needs and emergency vehicles from 12:01 a.m. Sunday done 6 a.m. Monday:

• Hawthorn Avenue betwixt Orange Drive and La Brea Avenue
• Hawthorn Avenue betwixt Highland Avenue and McCadden Place
• McCadden Place betwixt Yucca Street and Hollywood Boulevard
• Yucca Street betwixt Highland Avenue and Wilcox Avenue
• Wilcox Avenue betwixt Sunset Boulevard and Cahuenga Boulevard
• South sidewalk of Franklin Avenue from Orchid Avenue to Highland Avenue
• Hillcrest Road southbound of Franklin Avenue to nan dormant end

Times unit writer Grace Toohey contributed to this report.