Awards Calendar 2022/2023
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 12:20PM If you're eyes rolled when you saw this headline that means you still need more recovery time from the fiasco that was the 2021/2022 awards season. But time marches on and now we must draw our attention to the next wave of awards shows. We'll update this post periodically and republish.
APRIL 2022
28th Tony Eligibility Ends
If a show hasn't officially opened by this date, it's not eligible until 2023. The following shows are expected to be eligible: 13 original plays (Birthday Candles, Chicken & Biscuits, Clydes, Dana H, Hangmen, Is This a Room, The Lehman Trilogy, The Little Prince, The Minutes, Pass Over, POTUS or..., Skeleton Crew, Thoughts of a Colored Man), 7 play revivals (American Buffalo, For Colored Girls who..., How I Learned To Drive, Lackawanna Blues, Macbeth, The Skin of Our Teeth, Trouble in Mind), 7 original musicals (Diana, Flying Over Sunset, Girl from the North Country, MJ, Mr Saturday Night, Mrs Doubtfire, Six), and 4 musical revivals (Caroline or Change, Company, Funny Girl, The Music Man). It is our dream to one day get press invites to ample theater so we can do a once weekly column on that as a cultural sidebar.
MAY 2022
3rd Tony Award Nominations Announced
31st Emmy Eligibility Ends
The eligibilty period began on June 1st, 2021 (The debut seasons of Disney+'s Loki, Netflix's Sweet Tooth, Apple TV's Physical, AMC's Kevin Can F*** Himself, and Starz' Blindspotting and the second season of Hulu's Love Victor will thus be eligible despite feeling very 'old' by voting time) and ends on this date. If a show has aired enough episodes (six) to be considered a series by May 31st, 2022 its 'hanging episodes' (airing after this date but before the balloting ends in June) still count. The Emmys have fixed some of their rules so now if a film has qualified for the Oscars or has had a mass theatrical release (more than 70 theaters) on a single day, it is no longer eligible for the Emmy, so that should end the double-dipping that used to occur. More film festivals are now including TV programming but festival screenings do not interfere with Emmy eligibility...
JUNE 2022
9th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Julie Andrews (To Be Televised Later TBA)
12th 75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS
(7:00-8:00 PM EST Paramount+ Only 8:00 PM-11:00 PM EST CBS and Paramount+)
16th Emmy Nomination Balloting Begins
27th Emmy Nomination Balloting Ends
JULY 2022
12th Emmy Nominations Announced
AUGUST 2022
18th Emmy Winners Voting Begins
29th Emmy Winners Voting Ends
SEPTEMBER 2022
TBA Emmy Awards
DECEMBER 2022
TBA NBR, NYFCC, LAFCA, and various other "Best of Year" announcements
31st Last day of theatrical release for Oscar eligibility
Movies must play in theaters for 7 consecutive days for general Oscar categories. A lot of distributors use "one-week qualifiers," where they four-wall a theater unadvertised at some point in the calendar year, to game this system and then just wait to release the films the following year. It has aggravated us for our entire lives. OPEN WHEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO. Two current examples of this are Mothering Sunday (just opened) and Petite Maman (opening this summer) which were actually eligible at the Oscars that just passed us by.
JANUARY 2023
TBA LAFCA Gala
4th NYFCC Gala Awards
JANUARY - APRIL 2023
TBA Nominations for just about all Precursor Awards
TBA 65th Annual Grammy Awards
Nominees for these Grammys might feel truly old by the time this ceremony rolls around since the eligibility period actually started on October 1st 2021 (The Grammys we just saw were supposed to be held in January). Some of the earliest major releases that will be eligible are "=" by Ed Sheeran, "Music of the Spheres" by Coldplay, and "30" by Adele.
TBA 80th Annual Golden Globes
TBA 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards
TBA 76th Annual BAFTA Awards
TBA 95th Annual Academy Awards - Oscar Night!
This is the last Oscars before "Inclusion Standards" take effect.
As we've discussed before these are not burdensome on productions.
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Reader Comments (5)
Sometimes I wonder if eliminating the one-week qualifier rule would give us more Best Pic nominees from throughout the entire year instead of only Nov/Dec releases.
God I hope the academy goes back to February Oscars. I don’t think I can take another long drawn out season.
Nathaniel-What do you mean last Oscars before "Inclusion Standards" take effect?!? This better not be bad!
Alex -- if you click on that link that post explains what they are.
Tony -- i always wonder that myself. It would be hard to enforce because how would you know if something just closed after a week because nobody was going to see it or if the studio was just faking it? but still it aggravates me so much.
Peter -same. early FEBRUARY (the Parasite oscars) was perfect. and if they'd only done that this year POWER OF THE DOG would've had its rightful trophy.
"and if they'd only done that this year POWER OF THE DOG would've had its rightful trophy."
I know this to be true, but it still pains me to read it.