Reply #20: Gee, I thought they moved it from late FEBRUARY into March.

[Radio_Lady]

Here's why they shifted this year--- the Olympics!
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Oscars 2006 shift to March
Academy wants to avoid a conflict with Winter Olympics

Updated: 4:41 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2004
LOS ANGELES - Oscar and the Olympics were headed for a scheduling clash, and Oscar blinked first.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Thursday said the 2006 edition of Hollywood’s highest honors would be moved back by one week to Sunday, March 5, to avoid a conflict with the 2006 Winter Olympics.

With that date, the 78th annual Academy Awards will now fall one week LATER in the calendar than the Oscar telecasts for 2004 and 2005.