Academy to Welcome Back Press and Publicists to Oscar Nominations Announcement

For the first time since 2016, Oscar nominations will be announced in front of an audience at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre.

The nominees for the 95th Oscars will be announced on Tuesday, January 24.

Since 2017, the Academy’s president and special presenters have shared the news without anyone else present. It was, perhaps, a result of the awkward moments after the announcements in 2015 and 2016 that sparked the #OscarsSoWhite backlash against the organization.

But prior to that, announcements in front of excited media and nervous flacks had been an annual occurrence dating back to the 1980s, when those constituencies clamored to use landline phones to report the news to their employers as soon as the speakers finished.

The return of that tradition — if not an early call time — is likely to be widely celebrated in town.

Oscars 2023: Academy to Welcome Back Press and Publicists to Oscar Nominations

Academy to Welcome Back Press and Publicists to Oscar Nominations Announcement

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