The place to observe the 2026 Oscars in Canada

The 2026 Oscars have lastly arrived.

The 98th Academy Award Ceremony shall be held dwell on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, March 15, 2026. Comic Conan O’Brien will host the Oscars for a second straight time, after making his Oscars internet hosting debut final yr.

This yr’s Oscars are celebrating all the films that got here out in 2025.

With out additional ado, let’s dive into every thing it is advisable find out about probably the most historic award present in Hollywood, and how one can watch it.

The place to observe in Canada

As per common, Bell has the unique Canadian rights to the Oscars — nevertheless, there’s a twist this yr: Crave can be getting the printed rights, which means it would air on each CTV and Crave.

CTV-wise, you possibly can tune in to the present on CTV and CTV2 TV channels, CTV.ca, and the CTV app on iOS, Android, streaming units, and recreation consoles. On CTV’s digital platforms, you will have the login particulars from a TV supplier.

As for Crave, you possibly can watch the printed on Crave through the web site, the iOS and Android cellular apps, streaming units, and recreation consoles.

The schedule will look largely the identical as years previous. Beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT, Bell’s pre-show, Etalk Dwell on the Oscars, will stream on CTV, Crave, and YouTube (just for the pre-show, although). Following the pre-show, at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT, The Oscars Pink Carpet Present will start, that includes stars crossing the pink carpet alongside interviews as they enter the Dolby Theatre. Instantly following the Oscars, Etalk After The Oscars will start.

In case you are additionally capable of entry E!, extra pre-Oscars content material shall be accessible beginning at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, and it’ll additionally run after the Oscars into the night time.

As our Gaming Editor Bradly Shankar famous final yr, Hulu will even get the rights to the Oscars within the US.

And the nominees are…

2026 is one more attention-grabbing and star-studded yr for the Oscars. For starters, the chief in nominations, Sinners, broke the document for probably the most Oscar nominations with 16 — surpassing the earlier document of 14 shared by All About Eve, La La Land, and Titanic. 

Sinners, alongside the father-daughter revolutionary saga One Battle After One other, have been Warner Bros. productions, which means the 102-year-old studio had its greatest Oscar nominations morning ever, with 33 complete nominations. That comes amid the continued speak of a sale, with Netflix most just lately bowing out of the working.

Right here is the record of the nominees for greatest image:

• Bugonia (Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen)
• F1 (Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer)
• Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber)
• Hamnet (Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes)
• Marty Supreme (Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas and Timothée Chalamet)
• One Battle After One other (Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson)
• The Secret Agent (Emilie Lesclaux)
• Sentimental Worth (Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar)
• Sinners (Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler)
• Prepare Desires (Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler)

Apparently, Toronto-shot Frankenstein has 9 nominations, most of them being for Canadians; Greatest Image (J. Miles Dale), Greatest Achievement in Manufacturing Design (Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau), Achievement in Sound (Christian Cooke, Nelson Ferreira, Nathan Robitaille, and Brad Zoern), and Greatest Make-up and Hairstyling (Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey). Guillermo Del Toro, who resides in Toronto, was additionally concerned with the movie’s manufacturing.

When it comes to different Canadian connections, Montreal-based filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski earned a nomination for his or her animated quick The Woman Who Cried Pearls, Montreal-based Alison McAlpine was nominated for Greatest Documentary Quick for Completely a Strangeness, alongsid Domee Shi and Maggie Kang being nominated for Greatest Animated Characteristic Movie for Elio and Kpop Demon Hunters.

Additionally, for the primary time since 2001, there shall be a brand new class: Greatest Casting, making its Oscar debut. To no shock in any respect, Sinners has a nomination inside the area.

You’ll be able to view the total record of nominees right here. 

The presenters

Listed below are a number of the names that can hand out the awards:

• Rose Byrne
• Nicole Kidman
• Jimmy Kimmel
• Delroy Lindo
• Ewan McGregor
• Wagner Moura
• Pedro Pascal
• Invoice Pullman
• Lewis Pullman
• Channing Tatum
• Sigourney Weaver

The Performances

The Oscars have confirmed that Kpop Demon Hunter stars Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami (the voices behind HUNTR/X) will carry out the smash hit tune “Golden” on the occasion.

Sinners is getting a efficiency as nicely, with govt producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan noting that the efficiency “explores the function music performs within the movie’s storytelling, and interprets this right into a cinematic dwell second on the Oscars stage,” in keeping with the press launch. With this in thoughts, Miles Caton and Raphael Siddiq will carry out the Oscar-nominated tune “I Lied To You,” and shall be joined by Misty Copeland, Eric Gales, Buddy Man, Brittany Howard, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Bobby Rush, Shaboozey, and Alice Smith.

• Alongside these two Oscar-related performances, Josh Groban and the Los Angeles Grasp Chorale shall be performing on the occasion. At the moment, it’s not clear what they are going to carry out, however I think about Groban’s hit “You Elevate Me Up” shall be one of many songs.

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Picture Credit score: The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, CTV