{"id":155629,"date":"2025-05-04T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/04\/oops-2026-oscars-l-a-marathon-were-set-for-the-same-date-heres-who-moved\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T16:04:18","slug":"oops-2026-oscars-l-a-marathon-were-set-for-the-same-date-heres-who-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/04\/oops-2026-oscars-l-a-marathon-were-set-for-the-same-date-heres-who-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops!: 2026 Oscars, L.A. Marathon Were Set for the Same Date. Here\u2019s Who\u00a0Moved"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe Oscars made the announcement on Monday, March 17: Comedian Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a>, who had earned top marks for hosting the 2025 Oscars, would be returning as host of the 2026 Oscars on Sunday, March 15, 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost of us focused on the host announcement, which was made far earlier in the year than is typical, but Murphy Reinschreiber, COO of the McCourt Foundation, which operates the L.A. Marathon, immediately zeroed in the date, which was the same as the already-announced date of the 2026 L.A. Marathon, which is typically held on the third Sunday in March.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe McCourt Foundation had announced its 2026 marathon date on March 15, one day before the 2025 marathon and two days before the Oscars made their announcement.<\/p>\n

\n\tReinschreiber was driving home after finishing work on this year\u2019s marathon when he learned of the double booking.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was confusing and the other thought that went to my mind is there are just no days off in this business,\u201d he told<\/a> The Los Angeles Times<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing after the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt would be virtually impossible to have both megaevents on the same date. The Oscars is held at the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Blvd., which is right along the marathon route. Both events require significant road closures and law enforcement deployment.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter six weeks of uncertainty, a solution was finally reached on Thursday (May 1): The 98th Oscars will be held as originally scheduled. The McCourt Foundation will announce a new March date for the race in the coming days.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth parties also agreed that, to avoid future date conflicts, the L.A. Marathon will take place on the third Sunday in March (on which it has often but not always been held in recent years), and the Oscars will steer clear of that date. (Though the Oscars are often right around this date, this was the first time the Oscars landed on the third Sunday in March since 1999.)<\/p>\n

\n\tMoving a marathon is no easy feat. The event spans a large chunk of the city and involves more than 25,000 runners, thousands of volunteers, medical personnel, law enforcement and city workers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe number of people, communities and businesses that are all impacted by a change of date is mind-boggling,\u201d Reinschreiber told the L.A. Times<\/em>. \u201cWe are going to have to undergo a significant community awareness program.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMore than 5,000 people have registered for the 2026 Marathon, and they will need to be offered the option of a refund due to the change in date, he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tWho in city government wasn\u2019t on top of things and allowed two megaevents to be scheduled for the same date? No one is saying.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWith this conflict resolved, it\u2019s official: The 2026 Oscars will air live on ABC on Sunday, March 15 at 7 p.m. ET\/4 p.m. PT. It\u2019s the third year in a row that the telecast will start at 4 p.m. on the West Coast \u2014 in an effort to make it so that East Coast viewers can find out who wins the biggest awards before they go to bed. (This year\u2019s show ended at 10:50 p.m. ET, making that goal a reality for all but the earliest risers.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show will again be held at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Theater in Hollywood, its home base for every year but one since 2002. (The best-forgotten 2021 pandemic show was held at the Union Station in downtown L.A.)<\/p>\n

\n\tRaj Kapoor <\/a>and Katy Mullan will return as the show\u2019s executive producers for the third consecutive year. They first served in that capacity in 2024, when Kimmel hosted. They each won Primetime Emmys for outstanding variety special (live) for that show. Kapoor had previously won for outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) for his work on Adele: One Night Only.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tJeff Ross and Mike Sweeney will return as producers for a second time. Sweeney will also serve as a writer. Sweeney has won three Primetime Emmys for previous productions with O\u2019Brien. Ross has won one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Oscars made the announcement on Monday, March 17: Comedian Conan O\u2019Brien, who had earned top marks for hosting the 2025 Oscars, would be returning as host of the 2026 Oscars on Sunday, March 15, 2026. Most of us focused on the host announcement, which was made far earlier in the year than is typical, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}