The highly anticipated Academy Awards ceremony is the result of all nominations and awards. The following is a timeline and important dates for the 2023–2024 awards season. These include notable events like the Tony Awards, Grammys, Oscars, and Emmys as well as important industry voting bodies like the PGA, DGA, SAG, and Golden Globes. The film awards conversation is starting to pick back up, so here’s a list of awards events, shows, and the like.
All important dates are bolded. Every date is liable to change.
Nov. 8 – Country Music Awards
Nov. 10 – Grammy Awards nominations announced
Nov. 13 – Critics Choice submissions close for TV categories
Nov. 14 – Critics Choice Nominating Committees begin deliberations for TV
Nov. 15 – Final submission deadline for animated feature and general entry categories for Academy Awards / Hollywood Music in Media Awards
Nov. 19 – Billboard Music Awards
Nov. 20 – Golden Globes TV ballots sent / Directors Guild of America (DGA) submission deadline for film entries
Nov. 21 — International Documentary Association Awards (IDA) nominations are announced and final voting begins
Nov. 27 – 33rd Annual Gotham Awards / Golden Globes deadline for TV ballots at 5:00 p.m. PST
Nov. 28 – Golden Globes nomination ballots for films sent to members
Nov. 30 — New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) winners announced
Dec. 1 – Critics Choice sends out film nomination ballots to branch members; Nominating Committees render recommendations for TV
Dec. 3 – Kennedy Center Honors
Dec. 4 — SAG Awards Nominations voting opens / Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema & Television: Honoring Black, Latino, and AAPI Achievements ceremony
Dec. 5 – Critics Choice TV nominations announced at 9:00 a.m. PST / IDA final voting ends
Dec. 6 – National Board of Review winners announced / ICG Publicists Awards TV nominations / Golden Globes ballots for the film due at 5:00 p.m. PST
Dec. 8 – Critics Choice deadline for returning film nomination ballots.
Dec. 10 — Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) winners announced
Dec. 11 – Golden Globe Awards nominations announced / Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards nominations voting opens / Art Directors Guild nomination voting begins / IDA Awards ceremony
Dec. 12 – Producers Guild of America Awards (PGA) nominations announced – documentary
Dec. 13 – Critics Choice Film nominations announced at 9:00 a.m. PST.
Dec. 14 — Final Grammy Awards voting opens.
Dec. 15 – Producers Guild of America (PGA) nominations announced – sports, children, and short-form / Golden Globes final ballots sent to voters / American Cinema Editors (ACE Eddie) submissions close
Dec. 15-17 – Children & Family Emmys
Dec. 16 — Asian American Awards
Dec. 18-21 – Oscars preliminary voting in nine categories with varying numbers to be shortlisted — documentary feature (15), documentary short subject (10), international feature (15), makeup and hairstyling (10), sound (10), original score (15), original song (15), animated short film (10), live action short film (10) and visual effects (10)
Dec. 21 – Oscars shortlist announced in nine categories (documentary feature, documentary short, international feature, makeup and hairstyling, sound, original score, original song, animated short film, live action short, and visual effects / Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards nominations
Dec. 22 — WGA Awards submission deadline
Jan. 2 – Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards nominations
Jan. 3 – Golden Globes ballots due at 5:00 p.m. PST / New York Film Critics Circle gala
Jan. 4 – Palm Springs International Film Awards / Final Grammy Awards voting closes.
Jan. 5 – Critics Choice final ballots go out to film and TV branch members / Art Directors Guild nomination voting ends at 5:00 p.m. PST.
Jan. 6 – HCA Film Awards
Jan. 6-7 – Creative Arts Emmy Awards
Jan. 7 – 81st Annual Golden Globes / SAG Awards nominations voting closes at 5:00 p.m. PST
Jan. 8 – HCA TV Awards
Jan. 9 – DGA Awards nomination voting closes and DGA documentary feature, TV, and commercial nominees announced / Academy’s Governors Awards (rescheduled from Nov. 18) / Cinema Audio Society nominations / Art Directors Guild of America (ADG) nominations announced / American Cinema Editors (ACE Eddie) nomination ballots sent to voters
Jan. 10 – Directors Guild of America Awards nominations for feature films announced, and final voting opens / SAG Awards nominations announced / ICG Publicists Awards film nominations announced
Jan. 11-16 – Oscar nominations voting begins for eligible members.
Jan. 11 – American Society of Cinematographers nominations announced / National Board of Review gala
Jan. 12 – Producers Guild of America Awards nominations (theatrical, animated, and TV series) announced / AFI Awards / Critics Choice deadline for returning ballots for film & TV
Jan. 13 – Oscars visual effects nominating screening (bake-off) / Los Angeles Film Critics Awards ceremony
Jan. 14 – 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards / Oscars makeup and hairstyling nominating screening and sound nominating screening (bake-off)
Jan. 15 – 75th Primetime Emmy Awards (rescheduled from Sept. 18) / MPSE Golden Reel Awards nominations (Motion Picture Sound Editors)
Jan. 17 — SAG Awards final voting opens
Jan. 18 – BAFTA Film Awards nominations
Jan. 22 — Art Directors Guild of America final voting for winners opens / WGA Awards nominations online voting opens / American Cinema Editors (ACE Eddie) nomination voting closes
Jan. 23 – 96th Oscar nominations announced
Jan. 25 — American Cinema Editors (ACE Eddie) nominations announced / NAACP Image Awards nominations
Feb. 2 — American Cinema Editors (ACE Eddie) final ballots sent to voters
Feb. 4 – 66th Grammy Awards
Feb. 5 — Dorian Awards nominations (Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics)
Feb. 8 — Art Directors Guild of America final voting for winners ends
Feb. 9 — DGA Awards final voting closes / WGA Awards nominations online voting closes
Feb. 10 — 76th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards / 28th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards (ADG)
Feb. 12 – Oscar Nominees Luncheon
Feb. 13 – Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards
Feb. 18 – BAFTA Film Awards / Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards
Feb. 20 — ACE Eddie’s voting closes
Feb. 21 — WGA Awards nominations announced
Feb. 22 – Final Oscars voting begins at 9:00 a.m. PST
Feb. 23 – Sci-Tech Oscars / SAG Awards final voting closes at noon PST / WGA Awards final voting begins
Feb. 24 – 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) / Society Of Camera Operators Awards
Feb. 25 – Film Independent Spirit Awards / Producers Guild of America Awards
Feb. 26 – HCA Film Awards / Dorian Awards
Feb. 27 – Final Oscars voting ends at 5:00 p.m. PST
March 2 – Cinema Audio Society Awards (CAS Awards) / USC Libraries Scripter Awards / Crunchyroll Anime Awards
March 3 – American Society of Cinematographer Awards / ACE Eddie Awards ceremony / MPSE Golden Reel Awards
March 8 – ICG Publicists Awards / WGA Awards final voting closes
March 10 – 96th Oscars (Annual Academy Awards)
March 12 – Olivier Awards nominations
March 16 – NAACP Image Awards
April 14 — 76th Annual Writers Guild Awards / Olivier Awards
April 30 —Tony Awards nominations
June
June 16 — Tony Awards
American Cinematheque Awards (postponed from November 4)
Daytime Emmys (postponed from June 16)
Daytime Emmys Lifestyle & Creative Arts Ceremony (postponed from June 17)
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