After a long and grueling awards season, it’s almost time for the 2023 Oscars. The best films of the past year will soon be receiving Oscars from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). This year marks the 95th edition of the ceremony, which is also known as the Academy Awards.
What will be the most memorable moment of the ceremony? In 2022, the broadcast was associated with a Will Smith slap. In 2020, Bong Joon-ho and Parasite showed the world that subtitles shouldn’t stop a movie from getting praise. Will there be a surprise as big as the 1999 Oscars when shakespeare in love defeated Saving Private Ryan in Best Picture? The only way to find out is to look!
Below is your informative guide to the Oscars 2023.
Date, time and place of the Oscars 2023
The Oscars 2023 will be broadcast on 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT Sunday March 12. The ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California.
How to watch the Oscars 2023
To watch the 2023 Oscars, head over to abc in 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT. The ceremony can be viewed for free on your local ABC station. The broadcast can also be viewed on ABC.com and through the ABC app. You need to sign in with your cable or streaming TV provider login.
Watch the Oscars 2023 on ABC
How to stream the Oscars 2023
If you don’t have cable, the Oscars are available on streaming TV services like Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, and FuboTV.
There are two Hulu + Live TV plans. For $70 a month, subscribers will get Hulu (with ads) + Live TV, Disney+ (with ads) and ESPN+ (with ads). For $83 a month, subscribers will get Hulu (ad-free) + Live TV, Disney+ (ad-free) and ESPN+ (ad-supported).
FuboTV has four plans: Pro Quarterly, Elite Quarterly, Premiere Quarterly, and Latino Quarterly. The first three range from $70 to $100 per month, and Latino Quarterly starts at $25 per month.
Finally, YouTube TV costs $65 per month. For a limited time, that price drops to $55 per month for the first three months.
Watch the Oscars 2023 on YouTube TV
How to watch red carpet coverage
The red carpet festivities begin on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT on ABC with On the Red Carpet Live: Countdown to the Oscars 95. To watch the red carpet online, ABC News Live will begin streaming live at 1:30 p.m. ET / 10:30 a.m. PT, running until the start of the Oscars.
Countdown to the Oscars will start on sunday abc in 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT. The special will serve as an introduction to the Oscars. Ashley Graham (american beauty star), Vanessa Hudgens (bad boys for life), and Lilly Singh (Muppet mayhem) will host, along with multiple correspondents presenting red carpet interviews.
Watch Oscars 2023 Red Carpet Coverage on ABC
Who will perform at the Oscars 2023?
Four of the five songs nominated for the 2023 Oscars will be performed during the broadcast.
- Rihanna- Lift me up of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- David Byrne, Son Lux and Stephanie Hsu — this is a life of Everything everywhere at once
- Sofia Carson and Diane Warren— Applause of say it like a woman
- Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava — naatu naatu of RRR
Lenny Kravitz will sing the “In Memoriam” segment. The only song without a scheduled live performance is Take my hand by Lady Gaga and BloodPop’s Top Gun: Maverick.
Who Presents the Oscars 2023?
Jimmy Kimmel (Who wants to be a millionaire) will host the 95th edition of the Oscars. Kimmel previously hosted the 2017 and 2018 Oscars. Kimmel was the memorable host for the 2017 ceremony, where the the earth mistakenly received the Best Picture award. Currently, Moonlight he was the real winner.
Who is performing at the Oscars 2023?
The Oscar presenter roster includes past winners, movie stars and Hollywood legends. Presenters include Halle Berry (bruised), Harrison Ford (Contraction), Mindy Kaling (Velma), Elizabeth Banks (cocaine bear), Andrew Garfield (Spider-Man: No Way Home), Jonathan Majors (creed III), Florence Pugh (oppenheimer), Jessica Chastain (Tammy Faye’s eyes), Troy Kotsur (coda). Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), and Samuel L. Jackson (secret invasion).
Oscar nominees 2023
On Sunday night, 23 Oscars will be presented. However, most of the attention will be devoted to the “Big Five”. These categories include picture, director, actor, actress, and screenplay (original or adapted).
Best image: All calm on the west front, avatar: the path of water, The Banshees of Inisherin, elvis, Everything everywhere at once The Fabelmans, Tar, top gun: maverick, sadness triangle, women talking
Best Director: Todd Field (Tar), Ruben Östlund (triangle of sadness), Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything everywhere at once), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Best Actor: Austin Butler (Elvis), Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Brendan Fraser (The whale), Pablo Mescal (After the sun), Bill Nighy (Living)
Best actress: Cate Blanchett (Tar), Ana de Armas (Blond), Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie), Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans), Michelle Yeoh (Everything everywhere at once)
Best Original Screenplay: Todd Field (Tar), Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans), Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything everywhere at once), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), Ruben Östlund (triangle of sadness)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Edward Berger, Lesley Patterson and Ian Stokell (All calm on the west front), Kazuo Ishiguro (Living), Rian Johnson (Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), Peter Craig, Justin Marks, Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer (Top Gun: Maverick), Sarah Polley (women talking)
See the full list of nominations here.
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