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YouTube gets rights to film world's biggest night as Oscars broadcast moves online
The Guardian
|December 18, 2025
The Oscars will be moving from broadcast to online as part of a multi year new deal with YouTube.
From 2029, the video platform will have exclusive global rights to Hollywood's biggest night, including the ceremony, red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes content and Governors Ball access. The deal will run until 2033.
The Academy chief executive, Bill Kramer, and Academy president, Lynette Howell Taylor, said in a statement: "We are thrilled to enter into a multifaceted global partnership with YouTube to be the future home of the Oscars and our year-round Academy programming. The Academy is an international organisation, and this partnership will allow us to expand access to the work of the Academy to the largest worldwide audience possible which will be beneficial for our Academy members and the film community."
In recent years the Academy has tried to diversity its voting body, increasing international voters, with 21% now from outside the US.
This story is from the December 18, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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