Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Oscars Surprise: Academy Chooses Late March 2022 Date for Show Despite Regular End of Year Eligibility

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Color me surprised.

The 2022 Oscars will be held on March 27, 2022, much later than I thought or anyone else did.

The cut off is still December 31st. So without Golden Globes, there will now be three full months til the actual show.

Why? Beats me. The original date for the 2022 show was supposed to be February 27th. With the Globes gone, I thought it would make sense to move up to late January or early February. Wasn’t the idea to get this thing done sooner rather than later?

But no one asked me! Now by the time we have the Oscars, the movies will be quite past their expiration date. Obviously, the Academy and ABC know what they’re doing. So we’ll just go along for the ride!

But please, back in the Dolby Theater, and please get a host, kids! Jimmy Kimmel has that tux ready. Let him use it!

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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