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Katharine Hepburn's Best Actress Academy Awards (photo by cliff1066 CC-BY)

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be held on Sunday March 7, 2010 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.  Steve Martin and  Alec Baldwin will be co-hosting the  Oscars.

For the last few years the Academy Awards have taken place on the last Sunday in February. However in order to avoid conflicts with the February 28 closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver BC, the Oscars have been moved to a later date.

The following key dates have been scheduled for the 2010 Academy Awards:

December 1, 2009
Official Screen Credits forms due
December 28, 2009
Nominations ballots mailed
January 23, 2010
Nominations polls close 5 p.m. PT
February 2, 2010
Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
February 10, 2010
Final ballots mailed
February 15, 2010
Nominees Luncheon
February 20, 2010
Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
March 2, 2010
Final polls close 5 p.m. PT
Sunday, March 7, 2010
82nd Annual Academy Awards presentation

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood. It was hosted by Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille.

The eighty-first Academy Awards presentation took place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on February 22, 2009.  It was hosted by the Australian actor Hugh Jackman.

For a list of actors nominated for the Academy Awards or Golden Globes from 1960 to 2006.