How to Watch the Oscars 2025 Around the World
If you are excited to find out who wins at the 2025 Oscars — Emilia Pérez leads the nominations with 13, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked with 10 apiece — you can watch the 97th Academy Awards on TV or online in many countries around the world this Sunday, March 3. Others will be tuning in, no doubt, to see what host Conan O’Brien brings to this year’s ceremony, while also experiencing all the glitz and glamour on the red carpet of the Academy Awards in L.A. after the city was hit hard by the wildfires. That is unless you have one of the rare tickets to attend the Oscars in person.
As is tradition, ABC will be broadcasting the ceremony in the U.S., along with showing it on abc.com and the ABC app and streaming services that carry ABC, including DirecTV, Hulu + Live TV, Verizon and Sling. Disney will also, for the first time this year, be streaming the Oscars live on Hulu. The big show kicks off at 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET.
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The Oscars ceremony, like the U.S. movie business at large, is very much a global show nowadays. People living or traveling in other parts of the world have various ways to watch the red carpet, awards presentations and acceptance speeches. (The event isn’t immune from geopolitics, however — for the fifth year in a row, China will not air the Oscars, nor will Russia.)
Here’s The Hollywood Reporter’s guide to where the Oscars will be airing in select international markets. For the full roundup of international networks and streamers showing the ceremony, the Academy has a list here.
Canada
In Canada, CTV returns as Canada’s broadcaster for the Oscars. Coverage of Hollywood’s biggest night on the national network CTV and, CTV.ca and the CTV.ca app starts at 6 p.m. ET with eTalk Live at the Oscars.
The 97th Academy Awards will then air live from 7 p.m. ET, using the ABC feed. eTalk’s prime interview position on the Oscar red carpet is second only to host U.S. broadcaster ABC. After the Oscars, eTalk will feature a 30-minute recap show on Monday, March 3.
United Kingdom
Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky had held the exclusive rights to the big awards ceremony for years, but this year ITV and its streamer ITVX, and its STV and STV Player in Scotland, are the home of the Oscars in the U.K. for the second year in a row.
“The 96th Oscars ceremony in 2024 proved a hit with U.K. audiences, with the exclusive free-to-air coverage across ITV1 and ITVX reaching a combined 5.2 million viewers,” ITV touted recently. “Building on this success for 2025, ITV’s programming promises to deliver audiences more of what they love, from the highly coveted awards show, to the star-studded red carpet and everything in between.”
For the first time, the Oscars red carpet will be broadcast live across both ITV1 and ITVX from 10:30 p.m. British time, “with expert hosts providing seamless access to the arrivals of the 97th Oscars nominees, Hollywood’s biggest stars and VIP guests as they make their entrance to the ceremony,” the U.K. TV giant has vowed. “Renowned film enthusiast and broadcaster Jonathan Ross will return to host ITV’s coverage of the Oscars, bringing U.K. audiences closer to the action with live commentary, special celebrity guests and film experts and live chats with all the stars on the red carpet.”
For those who are not night owls, ITV will air a highlights show of the biggest Oscars talking points on Monday evening.
EUROPE
Albania/Kosovo
Digitalb Sh.A, and TOP Channel are the official Oscar broadcasters in the region.
Armenia
Armenian public broadcaster First Channel will again carry the Academy Awards ceremony.
Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
Baltic-based movie channels Filmzone and Filmzone+ are the exclusive home to the Oscars in the Baltics.
Belgium
In Belgium, pay-TV channel Pickx+ is the only French-language channel carrying the Oscars (also for French-speaking Luxembourg viewers) with coverage kicking off at 11:50 p.m. on Sunday. As is tradition, Telenet and VOD service GoPlay and its sister channels Play6 and Play More provide Flemish coverage.
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Public network BHT 1 is the Bosnian home of the Oscars.
Bulgaria
Nova Television (NTV) will be hosting the Oscar ceremony for Bulgarian viewers, carrying the show on its various channels, including Diema Family, Nova Television, Diema and Kino Nova.
Croatia
National networks HRT 1, HRT 2 and HRT 3 are the official Croatian broadcasters of the 2025 Oscars.
Cyprus
Movies Best HD, the only 24-hour HD Cypriot film network, is also the only place to watch the 97th Academy Awards in the territory this year.
Czech Republic
Public broadcasters CT1 and CT2, as well as arts network CT Art will cover the lead-up to the ceremony as well as the Oscars.
Denmark
Free-to-air broadcaster TV2 and its VOD services TV2 Play and TV2 Zulu will carry the 97th Academy Awards.
Finland
Public broadcaster YLE is again carrying the Academy Awards ceremony and viewers can watch on the YLE Teema Fem or YLE Areena channels.
France
Disney+ has replaced Canal+ as the exclusive streamer of the Oscars in France and will be carrying the show live, starting with red-carpet coverage
Germany
Long-time broadcaster partner ProSieben will again host the Oscars, live-streaming the awards and the lead-up to the event, kicking off with red-carpet arrivals on March 2 at 11:45 PM local time followed by the ceremony at 1 a.m. Central European Time on March 3. ProSieben’s streaming service Joyn will start its live coverage earlier, at 10:30 PM and also carry the full ceremony. Disney+ subscribers can also watch on the service in Germany, which will stream the ceremony live, starting from 1 a.m. CET on March 3.
Hungary
Disney+ will be carrying the 97th Oscars for Hungarian viewers.
Iceland
Icelandic pay-TV network Stod 2 and Stod 2+ will be the main broadcasters for the Oscars this year.
Ireland
Irish Oscar fans can once again catch the red carpet and the ceremony for the 2025 Academy Awards on national broadcaster RTE, on RTE2 and on the RTE Player.
Italy
In Italy, the 97th Academy Awards will be broadcast on public network Rai and its VOD service RaiPlay.
Norway
In Norway, Disney+ is the place to be for the 2025 Oscars, with coverage starting early, just after midnight on Sunday.
Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the digital FilmBox channel and pay-TV network Film 1 will be carrying the Academy Awards ceremony this year.
Poland
Long-time Oscar broadcaster Canal+ will again carry the red carpet and official ceremony with commentary for Polish viewers, who can also watch on Canal+’s Player+ of myCanal platforms.
Portugal
Public channels RTP 1 and RTP 2 will both be broadcasting the Academy Awards live in Portugal.
Romania (and Moldovia)
Leading Romanian commercial channel ProTV will be broadcasting the Oscar ceremony, which will also be carried on its Pro Cinema channel and film channel Voyo.
Serbia
Public network RTS will again be carrying the Oscar ceremony live for Serbian viewers.
Spain
Moviestar+ will start its Oscar coverage in Spain at 10:00 p.m. on Sunday night, with the ceremony starting at 2 a.m. local time on Monday, March 3.
Sweden
For the first time in years, the Oscars in Sweden will not be on TV4 but will be streamed on Disney+ in the territory, with the ceremony being carried live from Monday, March 3 at 1 a.m. local time.
Switzerland
German-speaking Swiss who’d like a local accent for their Oscar coverage can switch over from ProSieben and Joyn to public broadcaster SRF Zwei, which will be carrying the ceremony live from 11:35 p.m. local time on Sunday, March 2.
Turkey
Disney+ is the go-to streamer for live coverage of the 2025 Oscars in Turkey.
Ukraine
Ukrainian film fans will be able to watch the 97th Academy Awards on Suspilne Kultura, the culture channel of the Ukrainian public broadcaster.
Latin America
Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT, TNT Go, CNN Chile and HBO Max will air the Oscars live across many countries in the region.
In Mexico, Azteca 7 and Azteca 13 will air the Hollywood kudos fest, traditionally starting with a preshow, followed by the main Oscars ceremony.
Middle East and Africa
Pay-TV group Yes will carry the 97th Oscars on its Yes Movies HD channel in Israel.
Regional TV giant MBC, through its MBC 2 and MBC Max channels, as well as its streamer Shahid Plus and Saudi channel Al Thaqafeya have the rights to the Oscars in other parts of the Middle East and North Africa, bringing the ceremony to local fans, according to the Oscars website.
In South Africa, the Academy Awards will once again air live on pay-TV giant DStv’s M-Net early Monday local time. It will broadcast the Oscars live from 2 a.m. South Africa time on M-Net Movies 1.
For those who don’t want to stay up all night, however, the star-studded awards ceremony will also get a replay on Monday evening at 10 p.m. local time on M-Net.
“Of course, the official red carpet show is an essential part of the Oscars and will be hosted by multi-hyphenate Julianne Hough and television personality Jesse Palmer,” DStv was excited to tell fans. “The 30-minute special will highlight Oscar nominees, performers and presenters and provide a multi-view experience of the red carpet arrivals, giving the audience every can’t-miss moment from Hollywood’s biggest celebration. It will be broadcast live as part of the M-Net Movies feed, starting from 1:30 South Africa time.”
Asia-Pacific
Australia
Seven Network, and its 7Plus streamer, is the Oscars’ established home down under, with the outlets taking over from Nine Network a few years ago. The red carpet coverage starts at 10:30 a.m., followed by the ceremony at around 11 a.m. local time on Monday.
India
Star Movies and Star Movies Select will bring movie buffs the Oscars in India, with JioHotstar also streaming all the action and fun from Hollywood live. The show at 5:30 a.m. local time.
Japan
Premium cable operator Wowow, which has carried the Academy Awards ceremony in Japan since 2000, will once again air the show live on Wowow On Demand.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK also carries the awards show on its channels NHK-G and NHK BS, and via the OTT service NHK+.
South Korea
In movie-loving South Korea, local entertainment giant CJ ENM again has the rights to the Oscars via its cable channels and platforms OCN, OCN Movies, OCN Movies 2, O Choice, TVN Limited, Genie TV, Genie TV Mobile, LG U+TV, LG U+ Mobile TV and U Play.
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