How to watch the 2025 Oscars and everything else you need to know

The 2025 awards play is (finally) approaching its end.

The 97th Academy Awards volition beryllium held Sunday astatine the Dolby Theatre, wherever Hollywood’s biggest stars volition assemble to observe this awards cycle’s champion films and performances 1 past time.

Is Sean Baker’s “Anora” a shoo-in for the evening’s apical prize, arsenic galore awards prognosticators believe? Or volition “Conclave” propulsion disconnected a astonishment pursuing its SAG Awards win? And conscionable however overmuch of the “Wicked” soundtrack volition Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande perform? You’ll person to tune successful to the 2025 Oscars to find out.

When is the show?

The 97th Academy Awards volition beryllium held connected March 2 astatine the Dolby Theatre astatine Ovation Hollywood. The amusement volition footwear disconnected astatine 4 p.m. PT.

How tin I watch?

The 2025 Oscars telecast volition aerial unrecorded connected ABC and watercourse unrecorded connected Hulu. Those with cablegram subscriptions besides tin usage their credentials to entree the livestream connected abc.com and the ABC app.

This is the archetypal twelvemonth that the Oscars volition watercourse unrecorded connected Hulu. In anterior years, cord-cutters needed subscriptions to platforms with live-TV tiers specified arsenic Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV oregon FuboTV to drawback the show.

What astir the red-carpet shows?

The authoritative unrecorded preshow, “The Oscars Red Carpet Show” — hosted by Julianne Hough and Jesse Palmer — volition footwear disconnected astatine 3:30 p.m. connected ABC and Hulu.

Those funny successful tuning into the festivities adjacent earlier tin take from preshow offerings that see “E! Countdown to the Red Carpet” (E!, 11 a.m.), “On the Red Carpet astatine the Oscars” (ABC, 12:30 p.m.), “Live From the Oscars” (KTLA, 1 p.m.) and “E! Live From the Red Carpet” (E!, 1 p.m.). All times Pacific.

Who is hosting?

Conan O’Brien volition big the 2025 Oscars.

(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Comedian and TV big Conan O’Brien volition big the 2025 Oscars. This marks the archetypal clip O’Brien is hosting the Academy Awards. He hosted the Emmys successful 2002 and 2006.

O’Brien reportedly has been successful interaction with past Oscars hosts, including Billy Crystal and Jimmy Kimmel, arsenic helium prepares for the show.

“There’s nary specified happening arsenic getting to a constituent professionally wherever determination are nary nerves if you’re moving successful comedy,” helium told People. “I americium precise alert that it’s an iconic amusement and tin beryllium tricky. ... I similar to conscionable a challenge.”

What is nominated?

“Emilia Pérez” — which has been mired successful controversy implicit the course of its awards tally — leads the tract with 13 nominations, followed by “The Brutalist” and “Wicked” with 10 nods each. All 3 films are up for the apical prize of the night.

The champion representation contenders are:

“Anora”

“The Brutalist”

“A Complete Unknown”

“Conclave”

“Dune: Part Two”

“Emilia Pérez”

“I’m Still Here”

“Nickel Boys”

“The Substance”

“Wicked”

Check retired the implicit database of nominees here.

Who is performing?

Breaking from tradition, this year’s Oscars telecast volition not diagnostic unrecorded performances of each of the archetypal opus nominees.

Instead, “Wicked” duo Erivo and Grande, Lisa of the K-pop radical Blackpink (and “The White Lotus”), Doja Cat, Queen Latifah and Raye person been tapped to perform. While circumstantial details person not been revealed, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the performances volition observe “the filmmaking assemblage and immoderate of its legends.”

The Los Angeles Master Chorale besides is acceptable to marque a peculiar appearance.

Who is presenting?

Last year’s acting winners Emma Stone (“Poor Things”), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”) and “Oppenheimer” stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. volition beryllium among those presenting astatine the 97th Academy Awards.

Other presenters see Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Elle Fanning, Whoopi Goldberg, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow, Amy Poehler, June Squibb, Bowen Yang, Joe Alwyn, Sterling K. Brown, Willem Dafoe, Ana de Armas, Lily-Rose Depp, Selena Gomez, Goldie Hawn, Connie Nielsen, Ben Stiller and Oprah Winfrey.

Nick Offerman (“Parks & Recreation”) volition service arsenic the announcer for this year’s show.