Oscar Race Calendar

Key Dates for 2005 Films

Legend:

• Oscar dates in red
• Key announcements (awards and major noms) that affect the Oscar race in bold
• Balloting due-dates in italics

Overview -- The three key weeks in the Oscar Race:

• Second week in Dec: Major critics awards and Globe noms
• First two weeks in Jan: SAG and guilds announce noms, followed by Globe awards
• Last few days of Jan, first few of Feb: Guild and SAG awards, Oscar noms announced

2005:

Nov 29: Indie Spirit Award Noms announced

Dec. 10 Golden Globe Nomination ballots due

Dec 10: LA Film Critics Awards announced

Dec 11 Broadcast Film Critics Association noms announced

Dec 11 AFI noms announced

Dec 12: National Board of Review awards announced (moved from Dec 7)

Dec 12: New York Film Critics Circle Awards announced

Dec. 13: Golden Globe Nominations announced

2006:

Jan 2 Writer's Guild film nomination ballots due

Jan 4: Writer's Guild film nominees announced

Jan 4: Producer's Guild film nominees announced

Jan 4: Director's Guild film nomination ballots due

Jan 5: Director's Guild film nominations announced

Jan 5: SAG nominations announced

Jan 9: Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (Critics' Choice Awards)

Jan 11: Golden Globe Final ballots due

Jan 16: Golden Globe Awards

Jan 27: Director's Guild film final ballots due

Jan 27: SAG final ballots due

Jan 21: Oscar Nomination ballots due

Jan 22: Producer's Guild film Awards

Jan 28: Director's Guild Awards

Jan 29: SAG Awards

Jan 31: Oscar Noms announced

Feb 4: Writer's Guild Awards

Feb 28: Oscar Final ballots due

Mar 4: Indie Spirit Awards

Mar 5: Oscars

 

Sources:

Most of the dates posted here are drawn from the LA Times' awards site TheEnvelope, which had them spread across a dozen different pages. Updates on certain awards (particularly the changing dates for the National Board of Review, came from other sources, like The Awards Blog at MCN. More listings here.

Notes for Brokeback Mountain Aficionados:

Note that Brokeback is launching right in the heart of that first big window of heavy activity/publicity, platforming in 3 cities Dec 9, and expanding in the wake of the first round on Dec 16.

It continues to expand in Jan and Feb, as the Oscar race revs into full gear, providing maximum credibility and publicity as it tries to crack the Red States.

(Technically, it expands into the red areas outside the blue cities next year. Plenty of the early cities are in red states. Denver, Austin and Atlanta, for example, all sit in very red states, and are going to get the film in that first Dec 16 expansion.)