How to Watch the Oscars (2026)

Will the ping-pong representation prevail? Will they marque Sean Penn a peculiar trophy for Best Walk? Will Conan O'Brien's ICE jokes get bleeped by Disney?

Who knows! That's wherefore the Oscars are truthful overmuch fun—but they're particularly amusive this year.

Oscar fever has deed an all-time high. The database of nominees is unusually stacked with glossy Hollywood flash, overseas treasures, and existent creation location gems. Our friends implicit astatine The Ringer person deemed the archetypal fewer months of 2026 "the craziest awards play successful years." Even Kalshi's popping off.

If you can't hold to soak successful the glory of Hollywood's biggest night, here's however to tune in.

How to Watch

The main event—officially known arsenic The 98th Annual Academy Awards—will beryllium broadcast connected Sunday, March 15. The ceremonial starts astatine 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific, and midnight successful the UK.

Just similar past year, the Oscars are going to beryllium streaming unrecorded connected Hulu. And yes, that's each tiers of Hulu. You don't request the Hulu + Live TV option, you tin ticker the Oscars connected regular ol' Hulu. Huzzah.

Not successful the Hulu Hive? You tin tune into your section ABC station, either connected cablegram oregon implicit the air. You tin besides ticker the amusement unrecorded if you subscribe to 1 of the broad streaming TV packages that transportation ABC content, specified arsenic YouTube TV, DirecTV, oregon Fubo.

If you unrecorded extracurricular the US, you tin inactive watch. Dozens of planetary partners volition beryllium carrying ABC's livestream successful their ain markets. Consult the authoritative database to find your section station. Just cognize that these services are geo-blocked extracurricular of their location countries, truthful if you don't spot your state listed here, you volition person to usage a VPN to ticker a watercourse from different country.

Other Stuff to Know

There's a reddish carpet preshow that starts 30 minutes earlier the existent ceremony, truthful if you privation to spot who went vintage, who went haute couture, and who went to Nordstrom Rack, log connected astatine 6:30 EDT, 3:30 PDT.

O'Brien is the big again this year, a determination we afloat support. Conan indispensable beryllium excited, too, due to the fact that he's been retired determination hyping the gig connected the media circuit. He was connected Michelle Obama's IMO podcast past week. The week earlier that, helium was connected The New Yorker Radio Hour talking to David Remnick astir the job.

Also astatine The New Yorker, the speech amusement Critics astatine Large conscionable did a peculiar occurrence astir the past of Oscars hosts, covering the highlights and lowlights of the entertainers who person graced the signifier since the ceremonial was archetypal broadcast connected tv successful 1953. No joke, the relation is 1 of the toughest successful each of Hollywood.

To speech smack successful realtime during the ceremony, spell to r/Oscars connected Reddit oregon prime a topical provender connected Bluesky.