The next major award show is the 78th Primetime Emmys on Monday, September 14, 2026, on NBC and Peacock. From there the season runs through winter: the Critics Choice Awards on January 3, 2027, the Golden Globes on January 10, the Grammys on February 7, the Actor Awards — formerly the SAG Awards — on February 28, and the 99th Oscars on March 14, 2027. Every ceremony date below is officially announced; only some nomination dates are still pending.
Every confirmed date, in order
| Show | Date | Where to watch | Nominations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 78th Primetime Emmys | Mon, Sept 14, 2026 | NBC, Peacock | Announced July 8, 2026 |
| 36th Gotham Film Awards | Mon, Nov 30, 2026 | No network telecast | TBA |
| 32nd Critics Choice Awards | Sun, Jan 3, 2027 | E!, USA Network | Dec 4, 2026 |
| 84th Golden Globes | Sun, Jan 10, 2027 | CBS, Paramount+ | Dec 7, 2026 |
| 69th Grammy Awards | Sun, Feb 7, 2027 | ABC, Disney+, Hulu | Nov 16, 2026 |
| 33rd Actor Awards | Sun, Feb 28, 2027 | Netflix | TBA |
| 42nd Independent Spirit Awards | Sat, March 6, 2027 | Film Independent's stream | Dec 2, 2026 |
| 99th Academy Awards | Sun, March 14, 2027 | ABC | Jan 21, 2027 |
Start times, where announced: the Golden Globes go live at 5 p.m. Pacific, the Critics Choice Awards run from 7 p.m. Eastern, and the Actor Awards stream at 8 p.m. Eastern on Netflix. If you only keep three of these dates, keep September 14, January 10, and March 14 — television's big night, the season's loudest party, and the finish line.
The rows people will get wrong
The schedule looks familiar. Where to watch it does not.
The Grammys left CBS. The 69th ceremony airs on ABC, with streaming on Disney+ and Hulu — the show's first time off CBS after more than five decades there. If your muscle memory says the Grammys live on CBS, this is the season it fails you.
The SAG Awards go by a new name now. SAG-AFTRA calls its show the Actor Awards — the trophy was already called The Actor, so the title finally caught up with the statue — and the February 28 ceremony streams live on Netflix.
The Critics Choice Awards did not move — the January 3 show airs on E! and USA Network for the third straight year — but if you last checked when the show lived on The CW, it will still feel new.
What is still unannounced
The Tony Awards have no confirmed 2027 date. The Broadway League has announced ceremonies only through June 2026, and the pattern is an early-June Sunday on CBS. Ticket sites publishing a specific June 2027 date are guessing; when the League sets one, it will say so itself. Pencil in June, and treat anything more precise as unofficial.
Nomination dates for the Actor Awards and the Gothams are also still pending. The ones already on the calendar — November 16 for the Grammys, December 2 for the Spirit Awards, December 4 for Critics Choice, December 7 for the Globes, January 21 for the Oscars — are official.
The shape of the season
The season has two acts and a long intermission. September 14 belongs to television. Then the broadcast schedule goes quiet for months — the Gothams on November 30 are an industry dinner with no network telecast, though recent editions streamed free on YouTube — while nominations pile up from mid-November on. The second act arrives all at once: six ceremonies in the ten weeks between January 3 and March 14.
One warning about that intermission: the fall show and the winter shows rarely agree. The Golden Globe and the Emmy for best TV drama went to the same show just 3 times in the 11 overlapping years, 2015–2025 — the voters barely overlap and the eligibility calendars don't line up.
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#The Golden Globe called the Emmy for Best Drama just 27% of the time since 2015.
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Our awards season calendar tracks the four ceremonies with pools attached — nomination windows, prep notes, printable ballots — and the hubs for the Emmys, the Globes, the Grammys, and the Oscars fill in as nominations land.
The next envelope opens September 14.