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The Oscars are leaving Hollywood.
In 2029, the twelvemonth the telecast moves from ABC to YouTube, the ceremonial itself volition determination from its longtime location astatine the Dolby Theatre successful Hollywood to downtown Los Angeles and the Peacock Theater, 14.5 kilometres away. The Academy announced connected Thursday (March 26, 2026) that it has reached a 10-year statement with AEG, which operates the L.A. Live analyzable wherever the Peacock Theater sits.
It’s a astonishing move, fixed that the Dolby was developed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences itself, expressly arsenic a location for the Oscars. The ceremonial has been held determination since 2002 (with the objection of the COVID-driven downsized amusement astatine Union Station successful 2021) and has provided an particularly dependable location for the Oscars, which person ne'er stayed successful a azygous venue for specified a agelong stretch. The awards bounced betwixt assorted LA hotels successful its aboriginal years, earlier moving up to theaters successful the mid-1940s.
The downtown Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a good arts installation that is location to the LA Opera, became heavy identified with the Oscars erstwhile it hosted the ceremonial from 1968 to 1986. The ceremonial past alternated betwixt the Chandler and the Shrine Auditorium, adjacent to the University of Southern California, until the semipermanent determination to Hollywood.
The Dolby volition proceed to big the amusement arsenic it airs successful its last years connected ABC, concluding with the 100th Academy Awards successful 2028.
The Peacock Theater is adjacent to the Crypto.com Arena, location to the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings. The theatre has hosted the Emmy Awards astir each twelvemonth since 2008 and, successful caller years, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.
The academy says successful its announcement that, nether its agreement, AEG volition marque large upgrades to the theatre and its tech setup, and volition “collaborate intimately with the Academy to incorporated bespoke plan elements needed to accommodate the Oscars ceremony.”
The Peacock Theater, antecedently known arsenic the Nokia Theatre and Microsoft Theater, opened successful 2007, arsenic the then-Staples Center tract expanded to go the L.A. Live amusement complex. It hosted concerts from the Eagles and the Chicks to observe its opening.
The theater’s capableness of astir 7,000 is astir doubly that of the Dolby. And its plaza is bigger and much open-air than the Dolby’s Ovation Hollywood complex, which has much of an enclosed buying promenade feeling. Like Hollywood, L.A. Live besides has aggregate hotels, indispensable to the logistics of the Oscars.
And determination is simply a cinema astatine the site, though its Regal theaters multiplex lacks the historical patina of the TCL (formerly Grauman’s) Chinese Theatre adjacent to the Dolby connected Hollywood Boulevard.
“For the 101st Oscars and beyond, the Academy looks guardant to intimately collaborating with AEG to marque L.A. LIVE the cleanable backdrop for our planetary solemnisation of cinema,” the academy’s CEO Bill Kramer and its president, Lynette Howell Taylor, said successful a associated statement.
