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About 100th Academy Awards
The 100th Academy Awards, scheduled for Sunday, March 12, 2028, is a landmark centennial edition of the film industry's most prestigious honors, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The ceremony recognizes outstanding achievement in feature films released during the 2027 calendar year and is held at the Dolby Theatre.
The centennial show is expected to lean heavily on the institution's century of history, with tribute segments honoring past Best Picture winners, legendary performers, and craftspeople. Core categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.
The ceremony is broadcast in the United States on ABC under a long-standing rights agreement with the Academy and is distributed to more than 200 territories worldwide.
Overview
Why this concerts page exists
The 100th Academy Awards ceremony returns to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood to honor the best achievements in filmmaking of the year.
Specificity
What makes this countdown specific
Event
100th Academy Awards
Venue / market
Dolby Theatre, Hollywood · Los Angeles · United States
Date posture
March 5, 2028 · Date confirmed · Confirmed
Source trail
Official / Oscars · oscars.org
Content family
concerts · Awards Shows
Topic signals
awards, film, oscars
Type
Awards show
Category
Film awards
Precision
Expected month
100th Academy Awards is kept distinct from neighboring concerts countdowns by its concrete source trail (Official / Oscars at oscars.org), its date confirmed date signal, and its confirmed confidence label.
The location context for this listing is Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, United States. That matters because two pages can share a broad awards shows label while still serving different reader tasks: travel timing, ticket timing, broadcast coverage, city logistics, or release-window monitoring.
Current event facts on file: type: Awards show; category: Film awards; precision: Expected month. These details are included in the main article so the timer has venue, source, and schedule context.
Topic signals used for related-page matching: awards, film, oscars. Schema posture: Specific Event date emitted.
Evidence pack
Source, schema, and originality audit
Retention class
Confirmed-source major countdown
Evidence score
11/12 source/detail signals
- Evidence score11/12 signals present
- source name; source URL; source host; public date label; machine date value; location context; 3 fact rows
- Source and schemaCurated confirmed date
- Specific Event date emitted Source trail: Official / Oscars at oscars.org.
- Date precisionDate confirmed / Confirmed
- The page can carry a precise Event startDate because the source signal is specific enough.
- Entity grounding3 facts, 3 tags
- Location context: Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States.
- Editorial depth3 paragraphs, 4 highlights
- A curated why-it-matters note is present, plus visible source and freshness boundaries.
- Generation controlCurated event row
- This row is carried by the event catalog directly rather than a franchise template expansion.
Reference data for this countdown
Reference fields include 100th Academy Awards's source, date, location, tags, and facts. They make it easier to distinguish this page from adjacent concerts countdowns without adding unsupported claims.
Why it matters
The 100th Academy Awards marks a century of the most prestigious honors in film and is expected to be a landmark televised celebration of cinema history.
The details
Key highlights
- Venue
- Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles
- Format
- Live televised film-industry awards ceremony
- Headliner
- Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, broadcast on ABC
- Audience
- Global film fans and international television viewers
Reading the timer
How to use this concerts countdown
100th Academy Awards sits inside the concerts & live events calendar as a awards shows date that readers may revisit as the public details firm up. This page keeps the tracked date, source quality, location context, and release confidence in one place so the countdown is useful without implying more certainty than the source provides.
Right now the key public signal is March 5, 2028, with confirmed status and date confirmed precision. That distinction matters. A confirmed datetime is very different from a month-level or date-only signal, and people planning watch parties, travel, ticketing, launch coverage, or newsroom publishing need that nuance instead of a misleadingly precise timer.
We are tracking 100th Academy Awards from Official / Oscars plus the official event source. For this page, that means the safest way to read the countdown is as a reference layer: use the timer for awareness, then use the source, precision, location, and event facts together before you commit to travel, viewing plans, promotional scheduling, or time-sensitive announcements.
The most practical reading of this countdown is: 100th Academy Awards is being watched for Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, United States, and the current page focus is the main awards shows milestone rather than every surrounding rumor or speculative date. Type: Awards show. Category: Film awards.
100th Academy Awards sits in the live-events category where venue rules, ticket timing, broadcast windows, and city logistics often matter as much as the core date. Concert and festival countdowns become more useful when they explain what kind of live event this is, what scale it operates at, and how the official source should be used alongside the timer. Visible reference details include category: Film awards. That keeps this page more useful than a bare timer built around awards, film, oscars.