Grab your ballots, everybody. The 96th annual Academy Awards are set to take place on Sunday, March 10, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Jimmy Kimmel will serve as the host for the fourth time (and second consecutive Oscars).
In honor of the upcoming ceremony, we’ve compiled a list of FAQs about the Oscars: When are the Academy Awards? How do I watch them? And who has won the most Oscars?
Keep reading for all the details.
Walt Disney currently holds the record for the most wins by a single person, with a total of 22 Oscars. Winning categories include Best Short Subject (Cartoon), Best Short Subject (Two-reel), Best Documentary (Feature) and Best Documentary (Short Subject).
Disney may have the most Academy Awards, but Katharine Hepburn holds the record for the most acting Oscars. She won Best Actress on four different occasions, for Morning Glory in 1933, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 1967, The Lion in Winter in 1968 and On Golden Pond in 1981. That number doesn’t even include the eight times she was nominated but didn’t win.
A trio of films have each won 11 Academy Awards, making it a three-way tie between: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). Titanic we might have expected, but LOTR? Surprising…
The 96th annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 10, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. For the fourth time, Jimmy Kimmel will be serving as the host, after taking on the gig in 2017, 2018 and 2023.
The ceremony will be exclusively broadcast on ABC and abc.com. (Subscribers can also watch using the ABC app.) The actual Oscars ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT and is scheduled to conclude around 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT. (FYI: That’s just a loose time frame, since it probably won’t end until 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT at the absolute earliest.)
Check out a full list of the nominations here. At this year's ceremony, Oppenheimer got the most nominations, with 13, followed by Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon, which received 11 and ten nominations, respectively. Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) made history at age 81 as the oldest directing nominee.
