An commercial for the Academy Awards’ transfer from the Dolby Theatre to L.A. Reside, which can start in 2029 below a brand new settlement with AEG that runs via 2039, is displayed on the outside of the Peacock Theater, in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 26, 2026.
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The Oscars are leaving Hollywood.
In 2029, the yr the telecast strikes from ABC to YouTube, the ceremony itself will transfer from its longtime dwelling on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood to downtown Los Angeles and the Peacock Theater, 14.5 kilometres away. The Academy introduced on Thursday (March 26, 2026) that it has reached a 10-year settlement with AEG, which operates the L.A. Reside advanced the place the Peacock Theater sits.
It’s a stunning transfer, on condition that the Dolby was developed by the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences itself, expressly as a house for the Oscars. The ceremony has been held there since 2002 (excluding the COVID-driven downsized present at Union Station in 2021) and has offered an particularly regular dwelling for the Oscars, which have by no means stayed in a single venue for such an extended stretch. The awards bounced between numerous LA resorts in its early years, earlier than shifting as much as theaters within the mid-Nineteen Forties.
The downtown Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a high-quality arts facility that’s dwelling to the LA Opera, grew to become closely recognized with the Oscars when it hosted the ceremony from 1968 to 1986. The ceremony then alternated between the Chandler and the Shrine Auditorium, subsequent to the College of Southern California, till the long-term transfer to Hollywood.
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The Dolby will proceed to host the present because it airs in its last years on ABC, concluding with the one centesimal Academy Awards in 2028.
The Peacock Theater is subsequent to the Crypto.com Enviornment, dwelling to the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings. The theater has hosted the Emmy Awards practically yearly since 2008 and, in recent times, Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremonies.
The academy says in its announcement that, below its settlement, AEG will make main upgrades to the theater and its tech setup, and can “collaborate intently with the Academy to include bespoke design components wanted to accommodate the Oscars ceremony.”
The Peacock Theater, beforehand generally known as the Nokia Theatre and Microsoft Theater, opened in 2007, because the then-Staples Heart website expanded to turn into the L.A. Reside leisure advanced. It hosted live shows from the Eagles and the Chicks to rejoice its opening.
The theater’s capability of about 7,000 is about twice that of the Dolby. And its plaza is greater and extra open-air than the Dolby’s Ovation Hollywood advanced, which has extra of an enclosed shopping center feeling. Like Hollywood, L.A. Reside additionally has a number of resorts, important to the logistics of the Oscars.
And there’s a cinema on the website, although its Regal theaters multiplex lacks the historic patina of the TCL (previously Grauman’s) Chinese language Theatre subsequent to the Dolby on Hollywood Boulevard.
“For the a hundred and first Oscars and past, the Academy seems ahead to intently collaborating with AEG to make L.A. LIVE the proper backdrop for our world celebration of cinema,” the academy’s CEO Invoice Kramer and its president, Lynette Howell Taylor, mentioned in a joint assertion.
Printed – March 27, 2026 12:45 pm IST