2024 — 2025 Awards Calendar Highlights a Slightly Shorter Oscars Season

Years out from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with dual Hollywood labor strikes resolved, it seems like the 2024 – 2025 Oscar season calendar should hold steady this time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has already announced that the 97th Oscars will air live on ABC on Sunday, March 2, and have even rolled out some rule changes.

Again, the several awards bodies in the mix have all managed to avoid other tentpole events like the Super Bowl (February 9, 2025), but the bigger feat has been the Academy Awards, for the first time in years, not being set on the same weekend as SXSW. Furthermore, the Oscar nominations will not be announced during the Sundance Film Festival, another persistent headache on the cal in recent years.

Still, the new season already brings some scheduling crossovers, like the Directors Guild Awards and Producers Guild Awards being held on the same day (February 8). But it does all lead to a slightly shorter awards season this time around.

Here’s our (constantly updated) list of awards dates to remember:

Thursday, August 1, 2024
Golden Globes submissions open

Monday, August 18, 2024
Juried Award submissions for Annies

Monday, August 26, 2024
Screen Actors Guild Award submissions open

Wednesday, August 28 to Saturday, September 7, 2024
Venice Film Festival

Thursday, August 29 to Monday, September 2, 2024
Telluride Film Festival

Friday, September 1, 2024
Submissions open for all MPSE categories

Thursday, September 5 to Sunday, September 15, 2024
Toronto International Film Festival

Friday, September 13, 2024
Submissions open for CDGA

Sunday, September 15, 2024
Submissions open for VES Awards

Monday, September 16, 2024
Submissions open for ASC all categories

Monday, September 23, 2024
Submissions open for all MUAHS categories
Submissions open for all ADG categories

Friday, September 27 to Sunday, October 13, 2024
New York Film Festival

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Submissions open for ACE Eddie Awards

Friday, October 4 to Monday, October 14, 2024
Hamptons International Film Festival

Wednesday, October 9 to Sunday, October 20, 2024
BFI London Film Festival

Monday, October 14, 2024
Submissions close for CDGA at 5 p.m. PT

Thursday, October 17 to Sunday, October 20, 2024
Middleburg Film Festival 

Friday, October 18 to Sunday, October 27, 2024
Montclair Film Festival

Wednesday, October 23 to Sunday, October 27, 2024
AFI FEST 

Friday, October 25, 2024
Britannia Film Awards (BAFTA LA)

Saturday, October 26 to Saturday, November 2, 2024
SCAD Savannah Film Festival 

Monday, October 28, 2024
Submissions close for all but feature film ADG categories

Wednesday, October 30 to Sunday, November 3, 2024
Virginia Film Festival 

Thursday, October 31, 2024
ASC Awards music video and documentary entries due
VES submissions close

Friday, November 1, 2024
SAG Awards submissions close at 5 p.m. PT
Submissions close for all MUAHS categories
Submissions close for Ace Eddie Awards

Monday, November 4, 2024
Golden Globes submissions close

Sunday, November 10, 2024
Critics Choice Documentary Awards

Thursday, November 14, 2024
Oscars general entry, Best Picture, RAISE submission deadline

Thursday, November 15, 2024
ASC Awards TV entries due

Sunday, November 17, 2024
Governors Awards

Monday, November 18, 2024
Nomination voting begins for MUAHS
Nomination voting begins for CDGA
Nomination voting begins for Ace Eddie Awards

Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Submission deadline MPSE (all categories except Verna Field student award)

Monday, December 2, 2024
Gotham Awards
Nomination voting closes for CDGA at 5 p.m. PT

Tuesday, December 3, 2024
ASC Awards theatrical feature film entries due

Friday, December 6, 2024
ASC Awards TV and music video nomination voting opens
Nomination voting closes for MUAHS

Monday, December 9, 2024
Preliminary Oscar voting begins at 9 a.m. PT
Golden Globes nominations announced
Submissions close for ADG feature film categories
Nomination voting begins for MPSE

Tuesday, December 10, 2024
PGA Awards documentary nominations announced
MUAHS nominations announced

Wednesday, December 11, 2024
ACE Eddie Awards nominations announced

Friday, December 13, 2024
Preliminary Oscar voting ends at 5 p.m. PT
CDGA nominations announced

Monday, December 16, 2024
SAG Awards nominations voting opens
ASC Awards nominations open for theatrical feature voting
Online voting begins for all ADG categories
ACE Eddie Awards voting opens

Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Oscar shortlists announcement
CAS online nomination ballot opens

Thursday, December 19, 2024
PGA Awards nomination polls open

Friday, December 20, 2024
Nominations and Juried Award recipients announced for Annies

Friday, December 27, 2024
Nomination voting ends for MPSE

Monday, December 30, 2024
CDGA final ballot voting begins online at 9 a.m. PT

Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Oscar eligibility period ends

2025

Thursday, January 2, 2025
CAS online nomination ballot voting ends at 5 p.m. PT

Friday, January 3, 2025
Palm Springs International Film Awards gala; the festival runs through January 13
Online nominee voting ends for all ADG categories at 5 p.m. PT

Saturday, January 4, 2025
Independent Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch 

Sunday, January 5, 2025
Golden Globes Awards
SAG Awards nomination voting ends at 5 p.m. PT

Monday, January 6, 2025
ASC theatrical feature, TV, and music video nomination voting closes 12 p.m. PT

Tuesday, January 7, 2025
CAS Awards nominations announced

Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Oscar nominations voting begins at 9 a.m. PT
SAG Award nominations announced
ACE Eddie Awards voting ends

Thursday, January 9, 2025
PGA Awards nominations polls close at 2 p.m. PT
ASC nominations announced
ADG nominations announced

Friday, January 10, 2025
AFI Awards
PGA Awards nominations announced

Saturday, January 11, 2025
VES L.A. nomination judging panels hold vote

Sunday, January 12, 2025
Oscar nominations voting ends at 5 p.m. PT

Monday, January 13, 2025
Final PGA Awards polls open
Final voting for ASC begins
Final online voting begins for MUAHS
Final online voting ends for CDGA at 5 p.m. PT
MPSE nominations announced

Tuesday, January 14, 2025
VES nominations announced

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
SAG Awards final voting begins

Friday, January 17, 2025
Oscar nominations announcement

Saturday, January 18, 2025
ACE Eddie Awards at UCLA Royce Hall

Thursday, January 20, 2025
Final PGA Awards polls close at 2 p.m. PT
MPSE Blue Ribbon voting opens

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Online Annies balloting begins

Thursday, January 23 to Sunday, February 2, 2025
Sundance Film Festival 

Monday, January 27, 2025
ADG final online voting begins

Thursday, January 30, 2025
CAS final online voting begins

Saturday, February 2, 2025
Deadline to cast Annie Awards ballots

Tuesday, February 4 to Saturday, February 15, 2025
Santa Barbara International Film Festival 

Thursday, February 6, 2025
CDG Awards at The Ebell

Saturday, February 8, 2025
PGA Awards
DGA Awards
Annie Awards UCLA Royce Hall

Sunday, February 9, 2025
Final online voting closes for MUAHS

Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Final Oscar voting begins at 9 a.m. PT
VES Awards
CAS final online voting ends at 5 p.m. PT

Thursday, February 13, 2025
Final ADG online voting closes at 5 p.m. PT

Saturday, February 15, 2025
WGA Awards
MUAHS Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel
ADG Awards at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown

Sunday, February 16, 2025
BAFTA Film Awards
MPSE Blue Ribbon voting closes

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Final Oscar voting ends at 5 p.m. PT
Scientific and Technical Oscar Awards

Tuesday, February 19, 2025
Final Oscar voting ends for ASC Awards

Friday, February 21, 2025
SAG Awards final voting closes at 12 p.m. PT

Saturday, February 22, 2025
Independent Spirit Awards
CAS Awards

Sunday, February 23, 2025
SAG Awards
ASC Awards at the Beverly Hilton
MPSE Golden Reel Awards at Ebell Theater

Sunday, March 2, 2025
97th Oscars