90th Academy Awards 90th Academy Awards The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017 and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was held on March 4, 2018, rather than its usual late-February date to avoid conflicting with the 2018 Winter Olympics. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd and directed by Glenn Weiss.
76th Academy Awards held in 1990 and had last hosted the 72nd ceremony held in 2000. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at The Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, California held on February 14, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Jennifer Garner. "" won all eleven awards it was nominated for, tying the Academy Awards record for most awards won (alongside "Ben-Hur" and "Titanic"), including Best Director for Peter Jackson and Best Picture. Other winners included "" and "Mystic River" with two awards and "The Barbarian Invasions", "Chernobyl Heart", "Cold Mountain", "Finding Nemo", "The Fog of War: