The Oscars on television — dates, times, networks, hosts since first broadcast in 1953
Posted: May 2026
List of dates, run times, venues, networks and hosts of Oscars broadcasts since the first in 1953. The primary sources are published newspaper accounts of the ceremonies — previews and recaps, as well as the dates and venues listed at Oscars.org. Another source is the 1987 book Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards by Mason Wiley & Damien Bona. Dates and start times are easily verifiable. Start times below are local Los Angeles time. Scheduled run times, which began in 1953 at 90 minutes and have gradually grown to 3 hours, 30 minutes, have rarely been publicized, either in preview stories or advertisements for the show, or taken seriously; this page cites published newspaper TV listings and “TV highlights” descriptions, typically listings are in column format in early years and in grid format in recent decades. In early years, listings may include obvious oversights, such as the Academy Awards beginning at 10 p.m. Eastern time and regular news broadcasts still listed that night on the same channel at 11 p.m.
Actual Oscars run times are listed here for some of the broadcasts, generally the more recent ones, when published in articles by news organizations or in overnight newspaper reviews of the ceremonies. (Run times listed in the Internet Movie Database, as well as certain dates, often do not match published accounts.) Sometimes estimates vary. Exactly when the broadcast begins and ends is subjective. Whether the publication received the “official” time from AMPAS or the broadcast network, or the writer simply checked his/her watch, is never disclosed. Even 2020s articles by Hollywood trade papers, major newspapers and wire services do not indicate the source of the run time. Some of the run time descriptions dating back to the 1950s are clearly made by writers working under a tight deadline.
For nearly three decades, from the 1970s through the 1990s, most Oscar ceremonies were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The pavilion, one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center, is named after Dorothy Buffum Chandler, a prominent Los Angeles philanthropist who died in 1997; she was the wife of Norman Chandler and mother of Otis Chandler, publishers of the Los Angeles Times.
Years reflect the actual dates of the ceremonies, not the (previous) year for which the movies and performances are being judged:
2026 — Sunday, March 15, 4 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3½ hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 40 minutes, per PBS; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Host: Conan O’Brien; Best Picture: One Battle After Another
2025 — Sunday, March 2, 4 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3½ hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings,
aired 3 hours, 50 minutes; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Host: Conan O’Brien; Best Picture: Anora
2024 — Sunday, March 10, 4 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3½ hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 23 minutes; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Host: Jimmy Kimmel; Best Picture: Oppenheimer
2023 — Sunday, March 12, 5 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 35 minutes, per Los Angeles Times; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Host: Jimmy Kimmel; Best Picture: Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022 — Sunday, March 27, 5 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 40 minutes, per The Hollywood Reporter; Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles; Hosts: Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes; Best Picture: CODA
2021 — Sunday, April 25, 5 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 19 minutes, per New York Times; Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; no host; Best Picture: Nomadland
2020 — Sunday, Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 36 minutes, per Deadline; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; no host; Best Picture: Parasite
Grace Kelly, presenting the Best Actor award at the 1956 Oscars,
receives the already-opened envelope, the practice until the 1960s
2019 — Sunday, Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 21 minutes, per The Wrap; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; no host; Best Picture: Green Book
2018 — Sunday, March 4, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 53 minutes, per Variety Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Jimmy Kimmel; Best Picture: The Shape of Water
2017 — Sunday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran “a few minutes past midnight,” or slightly longer than 3.5 hours, per Reuters; ran 3 hours, 49 minutes; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Jimmy Kimmel; Best Picture: Moonlight
2016 — Sunday, Feb. 28, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 37 minutes per Variety; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Chris Rock; Best Picture: Spotlight
2015 — Sunday, Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 43 minutes; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Neil Patrick Harris; Best Picture: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014 — Sunday, March 2, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Sun-Times TV listings, ran 3 hours, 34 minutes, per Variety; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Ellen DeGeneres; Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
2013 — Sunday, Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings, ran 3 hours, 35 minutes, per Variety; Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Seth MacFarlane; Best Picture: Argo
2012 — Sunday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings, aired 3 hours, 13 minutes, per Variety; Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Best Picture: The Artist
2011 — Sunday, Feb. 27, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings, ran 3 hours, 16 minutes, per Variety; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Hosts: James Franco, Anne Hathaway; Best Picture: The King’s Speech
Tony Randall and Tina Louise present Oscars for Art Direction and Set Decoration
at the 1961 Oscars; note the statues on a rack and the oversized podium
2010 — Sunday, March 7, 5:30 p.m., ABC, ran 3 hours, 37 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Hosts: Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin; Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
2009 — Sunday, Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Chicago Tribune TV listings, aired 3 hours, 30 minutes, per IMDB; “The Academy didn’t bring it in under 3½ hours,” writes Roger Ebert, “It was the best Oscar show I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen plenty,” writes Roger Ebert; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Hugh Jackman; Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
2008 — Sunday, Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Bangor Daily News TV listings, scheduled for 3 hours, 15 minutes per Hollywood Reporter, aired for 3 hours, 17 minutes; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Jon Stewart; Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
2007 — Sunday, Feb. 25, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Toledo Blade TV listings, aired 3 hours, 51 minutes; aired 3 hours, 52 minutes per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Ellen DeGeneres; Best Picture: The Departed
2006 — Sunday, March 5, 5 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Toledo Blade TV listings, aired 3 hours, 34 minutes, per IMDB; aired 3 hours, 33 minutes, per Entertainment Weekly, Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Jon Stewart; Best Picture: Crash
2005 — Sunday, Feb. 27, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per The Fort Scott Tribune TV listings, aired 3 hours, 14 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Chris Rock; Best Picture: Million Dollar Baby
2004 — Sunday, Feb. 29, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Telegraph Herald TV listings, aired 3 hours, 45 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 — Sunday, March 23, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, per Portsmouth Daily Times TV listings, aired 3 hours, 30 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles; Host: Steve Martin; Best Picture: Chicago
2002 — Sunday, March 24, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 4 hours, 23 minutes; aired 4 hours, 16 minutes, per IMDB; Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles: Host: Whoopi Goldberg; Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind
2001 — Sunday, March 25, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired for 3 hours, 23 minutes per Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; Host: Steve Martin; Best Picture: Gladiator
2000 — Sunday, March 26, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 4 hours, 9 minutes; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Best Picture: American Beauty
1999 — Sunday, March 21, 5:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings, aired 4 hours, 2 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Whoopi Goldberg; Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love
1998 — Monday, March 23, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 47 minutes; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Best Picture: Titanic
1997 — Monday, March 24, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours per Chicago Tribune TV grid; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Best Picture: The English Patient
1996 — Monday, March 25, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Whoopi Goldberg; Best Picture: Braveheart
1995 — Monday, March 27, 6 p.m., ABC, Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles; scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 35 minutes, per IMDB; Host: David Letterman; Best Picture: Forrest Gump
1994 — Monday, March 21, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Whoopi Goldberg; Best Picture: Schindler’s List
1993 — Monday, March 29, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 16 minutes, per IMDB; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Best Picture: Unforgiven
1992 — Monday, March 30, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Best Picture: The Silence of the Lambs
1991 — Monday, March 25, 6 p.m., ABC, Shrine Civic Auditorium, scheduled for 3 hours; Host: Billy Crystal; Best Picture: Dances With Wolves
1990 — Monday, March 26, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Billy Crystal; Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy
1989 — Wednesday, March 29, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 16 minutes, per Dispatch wire services; The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles; Host: none; Best Picture: Rain Man
1988 — Monday, April 11, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3½ hours, per UPI; aired 3 hours, 25 minutes, per IMDB; The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles; Host: Chevy Chase; Best Picture: The Last Emperor
1987 — Monday, March 30, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 20 minutes, per Dave Kehr; aired 3 hours, 25 minutes, per IMDB; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Paul Hogan (also a nominee for Best Original Screenplay), Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn; Best Picture: Platoon
1986 — Monday, March 24, 6 p.m,., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired 3 hours, 15 minutes, per Gene Siskel; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Robin Williams; Best Picture: Out of Africa
1985 — Monday, March 25, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired “just over 3 hours,” according to Chicago Tribune; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Jack Lemmon; Best Picture: Amadeus
1984 — Monday, April 9, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours, aired for 3 hours, 45 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; “The telecast got off to an embarrassing start with an upside-down shot of guests arriving,” per Gene Siskel; “many pickets were sighted” in protest of Barbra Streisand not receiving any nominations for “Yentl,” per Gene Siskel; Host: Johnny Carson; Best Picture: Terms of Endearment
1983 — Monday, April 11, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 3 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor; Best Picture: Gandhi
1982 — Monday, March 29, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Johnny Carson; Best Picture: Chariots of Fire
1981 — Tuesday, March 31 (delayed one day because of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan), 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Johnny Carson; Best Picture: Ordinary People
1980 — Monday, April 14, 6 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Johnny Carson; Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 — Monday, April 9, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Johnny Carson; Best Picture: The Deer Hunter
1978 — Monday, April 3, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes per local TV listings; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Host: Bob Hope; Best Picture: Annie Hall
1977 — Monday, March 28, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes, per Chicago Tribune TV listings; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Warren Beatty; Best Picture: Rocky
1976 — Monday, March 29, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours per Chicago Tribune TV listings; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly; Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1975 — Tuesday, April 8, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours per Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra; Best Picture: The Godfather, Part II
1974 — Tuesday, April 2, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, David Niven; Best Picture: The Sting
1973 — Tuesday, March 27, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson; Best Picture: The Godfather
1972 — Monday, April 10, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Lemmon; Best Picture: The French Connection
1971 — Thursday, April 15, 7 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: According to the Associated Press, in place of a single emcee, “so-called best friends of Oscar”; according to Inside Oscar, Burt Bacharach, Harry Belafonte, Richard Benjamin, Joan Blondell, Jim Brown, Genevieve Bujold, Glen Campbell, Petula Clark, Angie Dickinson, Melvyn Douglas, Lola Falana, Janet Gaynor, Goldie Hawn, Bob Hope, John Huston, James Earl Jones, Shirley Jones, Sally Kellerman, Burt Lancaster, John Marley, Walter Matthau, Steve McQueen, Sarah Miles, Ricardo Montalban, Jeanne Moreau, Merle Oberon, Ryan O’Neal, Gregory Peck, Paula Prentiss, Eva Marie Saint, George Segal, Maggie Smith, Gig Young; Best Picture: Patton
1970 — Tuesday, April 7, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours per Associated Press; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: The Friends of Oscar. According to Inside Oscar, there were 16 friends: Claudia Cardinale, Elliott Gould, Myrna Loy, Barbara McNair, Jon Voight, Fred Astaire, Elizabeth Taylor, Ali MacGraw, Cliff Robertson, Katharine Ross, James Earl Jones, Candice Bergen, Raquel Welch, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Bob Hope. According to the Associated Press, there were 17 “presenters,” the same list but also including Barbra Streisand, who presented the Best Actor award to John Wayne; Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy
1969 — Monday, April 14, 7 p.m., ABC, planned for 2 hours, per Bob Thomas, Associated Press, citing director Gower Champion: "Originally, he had hoped to limit the show to 90 minutes; now, he expects it to run two hours." Thomas adds, "Ceremonies in other years have usually lasted 2½ hours or more"; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles; Hosts: The Friends of Oscar, per Inside Oscar and also per Bob Thomas, Associated Press, citing director Gower Champion: Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Poitier, Jane Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Wood, Walter Matthau, Diahann Carroll, Tony Curtis, Rosalind Russell, Burt Lancaster; Best Picture: Oliver!
1968 — Wednesday, April 10 (delayed two days in the week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for "at least two hours" per local newspaper description of TV highlights, ran 2 hours, 31 minutes, per newspaper account a year later; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night
1967 — Monday, April 10, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, AFTRA strike settled 90 minutes before show time, per Associated Press; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Best Picture: A Man For All Seasons
1966 — Monday, April 18, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, per local TV listings; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Best Picture: The Sound of Music
1965 — Monday, April 5, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours per local TV listings, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes, per local TV description; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Best Picture: My Fair Lady
1964 — Monday, April 13, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes, per local TV listings and description; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Jack Lemmon; Best Picture: Tom Jones
1963 — Monday, April 8, 7 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, 30 minutes per local TV listings; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Frank Sinatra; Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
1962 — Monday, April 9, 7:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, per local TV listings and description; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Best Picture: West Side Story
1961 — Monday, April 17, 7:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 2 hours, per James Bacon of the Associated Press and per local TV listings, ran for 90 minutes, per Bacon; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Host: Bob Hope; Best Picture: The Apartment
1960 — Monday, April 4, 7:30 p.m., ABC, scheduled for 90 minutes per local TV listings and advertisement in movie section; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood; Host: Bob Hope; Best Picture: Ben-Hur
1959 — Monday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 2 hours per James Bacon, Associated Press, ran for 1 hour, 40 minutes, per Bacon; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood; Hosts: Bob Hope, David Niven, Tony Randall, Mort Sahl, Laurence Olivier, Jerry Lewis; Best Picture: Gigi
1958 — Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 45 minutes per NBC advertisement; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood; Hosts: James Stewart, Bob Hope, Rosalind Russell, David Niven, Jack Lemmon; Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai; Best Picture: THe Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 — Wednesday, March 27, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 45 minutes per local TV listing; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Hosts: Jerry Lewis in Hollywod, Celeste Holm in New York; Best Picture: Around the World in 80 Days
1956 — Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 30 minutes per local TV listing; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Hosts: Jerry Lewis in Hollywood, Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz in New York; Best Picture: Marty
1955 — Wednesday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 30 minutes per local TV listing; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Hosts: Bob Hope in Hollywood, Thelma Ritter in New York; Best Picture: On the Waterfront
1954 — Thursday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 30 minutes per local TV listing; RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Hosts: Donald O’Connor in Hollywood, Fredric March in New York; Best Picture: From Here to Eternity
1953 — Thursday, March 19, 7:30 p.m., NBC, scheduled for 1 hour, 30 minutes per local TV listing, RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, and NBC Century Theatre, New York; Roger Ebert writes, “That year I listened on the radio, in the hospital, after having my appendix removed, and it seemed to me that the Academy Awards were unimaginably distant and grand. ... Listening on the radio made them seem so glamorous in my mind’s eye that the real thing has never quite equaled the images in my imagination that night”; Hosts: Bob Hope in Hollywood, Conrad Nagel in New York; Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth