How Do You Get Invited To The Oscars? Nominees Would Also Like To Know

How to get invited to the Oscars

To get invited to the Oscars, you would have to be in the Academy of Motion Pictures, a nominee, or be in the film industry. The capacity for the Academy Awards venue, The Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, is 3,300, making it super tight when it comes to invites.

However, every person who does go to the Oscars gets the star treatment. “Each floor has its own bar and popcorn station, and there’s lots of milling around,” says writer Michael Schulman to USA Today.

How many tickets do Oscar nominees get?

Oscar nominees usually get one or two extra tickets to the Academy Awards. In 2024, Best Supporting Actress nominee Da’Vine Joy Randolph put out a request for extra tickets to the biggest night in Hollywood. “If anyone would like to contribute to giving me an additional ticket that you may not need … I need five tickets,” she said on Watch What Happens Live, where host Andy Cohen asked if fellow nominee Emily Blunt could help out. “Maybe the husband [John Krasinski] gets one just because he is who he is. I might give her a text.”

She talked to Vanity Fair about getting more tickets for a big celebratory night. “Can you imagine the people in your life that are, like, ‘I want to come!’ And you’re, like, ‘And you should come because you’ve helped me significantly in my life,’” she told the publication. “I don’t care if my people are back there [on the balcony], I don’t need five people in my row. Get Oscar tickets, or buy Oscar tickets, whatever we’ve got to do — I have some family members that would be very upset, so I’ve got to figure that out.”

Who are the Academy members?

The Academy of Motion Pictures is comprised of film artists working in the production of theatrically released motion pictures. 

The Academy has 18 branches, for the crafts ranging from Actors to Writers, and the Members-at-Large (Artists’ Representatives) category, for individuals who work in motion pictures as a representative.

New members cannot apply to The Academy, but people who are interested in joining have to be sponsored by two members who are already in the organization.

Who is hosting the Oscars?

Who is the Oscars 2024 host? The Oscars 2024 host is Jimmy Kimmel, who previously hosted the Academy Awards in 2017, 2018, and 2023. “I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times,” the Jimmy Kimmel Live! star said in a statement, per Variety.

In a February 2024 interview with the LA Times, Kimmel admitted that he didn’t think he would host the Oscars for a fourth time. “I did not think I would ever do it again,” he said. “I did two of them, and they went well — something crazy happened at one of them with a story I’ll have for the rest of my life. I know how much work goes into them, so I thought, ‘Yeah, I don’t necessarily want to do this ever again.’”

The film that changed the late-night host’s mind was Joseph Kosinski’s 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick. “I knew there was a movie that people had seen, and it just makes the job easier,” he continued. “Then this year, I am sitting in a movie theater watching Barbie and thinking, ‘Well, maybe I’ll do this again, because at least I have a point of reference with everyone,'” he said, with the publication noting that the more popular the films are, the more references the audience will understand in his monologue. “I made a joke about ‘Moonlight’ that made it clear to me that the vast majority of the room had not seen the movie, even though it won best picture.”

Back when Kimmel was approached about hosting the Oscars for the first time, he knew he wasn’t the producer’s first choice, which he was okay with. Looking back, he said he was over-prepared for that first show in 2017. “I really rushed through my monologue,” he recalled. “I was nervous. But [afterward], I studied the tape and decided, ‘OK, I’m going to take my time with the monologue. I’m not going to race through it — if the show goes one minute long, I’m OK with that.’”

As for viewers who might be bothered by the bits or jokes he makes, Kimmel said there’s “nothing you could do about that” and it happens. He also explained that there’s an expectation that “the show is going to be classy and pristine.” He added, “I’m not always classy and pristine.”