LA Marathon, Oscars to be held on the identical day in 2026 – NBC Los Angeles

Subsequent yr in Los Angeles, March Insanity takes on an entire new that means.

The Oscars and the Los Angeles Marathon, two world-renowned occasions, are slated to happen on the identical day, March 15.

The 2 occasions not solely share the identical day however use the identical location, elevating questions on the doable overlap. The route for the 2025 Marathon handed immediately by the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, the place the Oscars had been hosted this yr.

The 98th Academy Awards hosted by Conan O’Brien can be held on the Dolby Theatre as soon as once more on March 15.  

Academy sources inform NBC4 they’ve been in dialog with the mayor’s workplace in addition to the town’s division of transportation and had been instructed any marathon route can be moved to keep away from any disruption in Hollywood with the Oscars.

In a press release to NBC4, an LA marathon spokesperson wrote:

“The third Sunday in March is the standard day of the Los Angeles Marathon. The forty first ASICS Los Angeles Marathon is scheduled for Sunday, March 15, 2026, the third Sunday in March. Our date was broadly introduced weeks in the past, nicely earlier than the Academy Awards revealed their date. We had been shocked by the academy’s announcement, as there was no prior communication with us.”

The mayor’s workplace mentioned they’re working to ensure each occasions go as deliberate.

“The town is trying into this concern, it doesn’t matter what, we are going to work to make sure that these signature LA occasions are protected and profitable for guests and Angelenos to get pleasure from,” wrote a spokesperson for the mayor.