Turner Classic Movies has their annual “31 Days of Oscar” film fest today through March 15, 2026. See audience favorites like Gone With The Wind, Ben Hur, and Dr. Zhivago.
The 31 Days of Oscar series has been an annual tradition at TCM for 33 years. Every film being shown during the series won or was nominated for at least one Academy Award. Each day during the series, TCM will highlight a movie theme like Oscar Goes to War and Oscar Goes West.
The 31 Days of Oscar runs from February 13 through March 15, 2026. The schedule of TCM’s 31 Days Oscar follows.
Also on TCM this month is a tribute to Jerry Lewis for his 100th birthday on March 16. Read more at: Jerry Lewis 100th Birthday March 16
Friday, February 13
OSCAR GOES TO A FANTASY WORLD
6:00 AM Cabin in the Sky (1943)
7:45 AM The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
10:15 AM The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
12:15 PM Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
2:45 PM Lili (1953)
4:15 PM 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
6:00 PM Brigadoon (1954)
OSCAR GOES TO A WEDDING
8:00 PM Father of the Bride (1950)
9:45 PM Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
12:00 AM The Graduate (1967)
2:00 AM High Society (1956)
4:00 AM Smilin’ Through (1932)
Saturday, February 14
OSCAR GOES TO PARIS
6:00 AM Roberta (1935)
8:00 AM The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
10:00 AM Ninotchka (1939)
12:00 PM Casablanca (1942)
2:00 PM Midnight in Paris (2011)
3:45 PM Gigi (1958)
6:00 PM Charade (1963)
8:00 PM An American in Paris (1951)
10:00 PM Moulin Rouge! (2001)
12:15 AM Amélie (2001)
2:30 AM Irma La Douce (1963)
5:00 AM Camille (1936)
Sunday, February 15
OSCAR GOES BAD (CRIME)
7:00 AM Little Caesar (1931)
8:30 AM The Letter (1940)
10:15 AM Key Largo (1948)
12:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
2:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
4:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
6:00 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
8:00 PM White Heat (1949)
10:00 PM In Cold Blood (1967)
12:30 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
2:45 AM Shaft (1971)
4:45 AM The Window (1949)
Monday, February 16
OSCAR GOES TO A FAMILY REUNION
6:00 AM Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
7:30 AM Edward, My Son (1949)
9:30 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
11:00 AM The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
1:30 PM I Remember Mama (1948)
3:45 PM I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
5:30 PM Auntie Mame (1958)
OSCAR GOES TO CLASS
8:00 PM The Children’s Hour (1961)
10:00 PM The Corn is Green (1945)
12:00 AM Blackboard Jungle (1955)
2:00 AM Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
4:45 AM Good News (1947)
Tuesday, February 17
OSCAR GOES TO THE DESERT
6:30 AM The Desert Song (1943)
8:30 AM The Wind and the Lion (1975)
10:45 AM Morocco (1930)
12:30 PM Road to Morocco (1942)
2:00 PM Sahara (1943)
3:45 PM Khartoum (1966)
6:15 PM Them! (1954)
OSCAR GOES NUCLEAR
8:00 PM On the Beach (1959)
10:30 PM The China Syndrome (1979)
12:45 AM Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2:30 AM Seven Days to Noon (1950)
Wednesday, February 18
OSCAR GOES ON STAGE
4:15 AM The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
7:15 AM Morning Glory (1933)
8:30 AM Stage Door (1937)
10:15 AM Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
12:00 PM To Be or Not to Be (1942)
1:45 PM Kiss Me Kate (1953)
3:45 PM The Entertainer (1960)
5:30 PM The Boy Friend (1971)
OSCAR GOES TO ENGLAND
8:00 PM My Fair Lady (1964)
11:00 PM The Remains of the Day (1993)
1:30 AM Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
4:15 AM Young Bess (1953)
6:15 AM Pride and Prejudice (1940)
8:15 AM David Copperfield (1935)
Thursday, February 19
OSCAR GOES FOR THE FACTS (DOCUMENTARIES)
10:30 AM The Secret Land (1948)
12:00 PM Festival (1967)
2:00 PM Freedom on My Mind (1994)
4:00 PM The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
6:00 PM Inside Job (2010)
OSCAR GOES TO PRISON
8:00 PM Papillion (1973)
10:45 PM The Longest Yard (1974)
1:00 AM Midnight Express (1978)
3:15 AM The Big House (1930)
5:00 AM Weary River (1929)
Friday, February 20
OSCAR GOES TO THE LABORATORY
6:45 AM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
8:30 AM Dr. Cyclops (1940)
10:00 AM The Time Machine (1960)
12:00 PM Dr. Erlich’s Magic Bullet (1940)
2:00 PM The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
3:45 PM Madame Curie (1943)
6:00 PM Edison, the Man (1940)
OSCAR GOES FOR A DRIVE
8:00 PM Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
10:00 PM Rain Man (1988)
12:30 AM Bullitt (1968)
2:30 AM Grand Prix (1966)
5:30 AM Wild Strawberries (1957)
Saturday, February 21
OSCAR GOES BIG (EPICS)
7:30 AM Ben-Hur (1959)
11:30 AM Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3:30 PM Cleopatra (1963)
8:00 PM Gone With the Wind (1939)
12:00 AM Doctor Zhivago (1965)
3:30 AM Quo Vadis (1951)
Sunday, February 22
OSCAR GOES TO WAR
6:30 AM Captains of the Clouds (1942)
8:30 AM Battleground (1949)
10:30 AM Sergeant York (1941)
1:00 PM Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
3:00 PM Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
5:00 PM The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
8:00 PM Patton (1970)
11:00 PM The Deer Hunter (1978)
2:15 AM Das Boot (1981)
5:00 AM They Were Expendable (1945)
Monday, February 23
OSCAR GOES TO THE ISLANDS
7:30 AM White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
9:15 AM All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
11:15 AM Gulliver’s Travels (1939)
12:45 PM Robinson Crusoe (1954)
2:30 PM Hawaii (1966)
5:15 PM South Pacific (1958)
OSCAR GOES TO THE DOGS
8:00 PM Lassie Come Home (1943)
9:45 PM Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
11:30 PM The Awful Truth (1937)
1:15 AM Umberto D. (1952)
3:00 AM Sounder (1972)
Tuesday, February 24
OSCAR GOES DOWN IN HISTORY
5:00 AM Disraeli (1929)
6:30 AM Viva Villa! (1934)
8:30 AM Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
10:45 AM The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
12:30 PM Marie Antoinette (1938)
3:15 PM Julius Caesar (1953)
5:30 PM Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
OSCAR GOES BACK FOR MORE (REMAKES)
8:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
10:00 PM Imitation of Life (1959)
12:15 AM The Magnificent Seven (1960)
2:30 AM A Star is Born (1976)
5:00 AM Showboat (1951)
Wednesday, February 25
OSCAR GOES BACK FOR EVEN MORE (REMAKES)
7:00 AM The Merry Widow (1952)
9:00 AM Cimarron (1960)
11:30 AM The Sea Hawk (1940)
1:45 PM Little Women (1949)
4:00 PM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
6:00 PM Waterloo Bridge (1940)
OSCAR GOES TO CHURCH
8:00 PM Going My Way (1944)
10:15 PM Elmer Gantry (1960)
1:00 AM A Man for All Seasons (1966)
3:15 AM The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
6:00 AM Hallelujah (1929)
8:00 AM One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Thursday, February 26
OSCAR GOES ON STRIKE
10:00 AM Black Fury (1935)
11:45 AM The Organizer (1963)
2:00 PM The Valley of Decision (1945)
4:00 PM Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
6:00 PM On the Waterfront (1954)
OSCAR GOES TO ITALY
8:00 PM Roman Holiday (1953)
10:15 PM A Room with a View (1985)
12:30 AM The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
3:00 AM Death in Venice (1971)
5:15 AM Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
Friday, February 27
OSCAR GOES TO SEA
6:30 AM Captains Courageous (1937)
8:30 AM One Way Passage (1932)
9:45 AM Romance on the High Seas (1948)
11:30 AM Now, Voyager (1942)
1:30 PM The Last Voyage (1960)
3:15 PM Billy Budd (1962)
5:30 PM Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
OSCAR GOES TO COURT
8:00 PM 12 Angry Men (1957)
9:45 PM Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
12:00 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
3:15 AM Adam’s Rib (1949)
Saturday, February 28
OSCAR GOES WEST
5:15 AM Cimarron (1931)
7:30 AM How the West Was Won (1962)
10:30 AM Calamity Jane (1953)
12:15 PM Stagecoach (1939)
2:00 PM Red River (1948)
4:30 PM The Naked Spur (1953)
6:15 PM Broken Arrow (1950)
8:00 PM Shane (1953)
10:15 PM Hondo (1953)
11:45 PM McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
2:00 AM The Wild Bunch (1969)
4:30 AM Billy the Kid (1941)
Sunday, March 1
OSCAR GOES DANCING
6:15 AM Hollywood Canteen (1944)
8:30 AM 42nd Street (1933)
10:15AM Born to Dance (1936)
12:15 AM Swing Time (1936)
2:15 AM Royal Wedding (1951)
4:00 PM The Band Wagon (1953)
6:00 PM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
8:00 PM West Side Story (1961)
10:45 PM All That Jazz (1979)
1:00 AM The Red Shoes (1948)
3:30 AM Fame (1980)
Monday, March 2
OSCAR GOES ON THE RUN
6:00 AM Algiers (1938)
8:00 AM Odd Man Out (1947)
10:00 AM Logan’s Run (1976)
12:00 PM Running on Empty (1988)
2:00 PM I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
3:45 PM The Defiant Ones (1958)
5:30 PM North by Northwest (1959)
OSCAR GOES A FEW ROUNDS
8:00 PM The Harder They Fall (1956)
10:00 PM Fat City (1972)
12:00 AM Champion (1949)
2:00 AM Golden Boy (1939)
4:00 AM Somebody Up there Likes Me (1956)
Tuesday, March 3
OSCAR GOES ON THE AIR
6:00 AM Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
7:45 AM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
10:00 AM It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)
12:00 PM It Should Happen to You (1954)
1:45 PM Being There (1979)
4:00 PM My Favorite Year (1982)
6:00 PM The Sunshine Boys (1975)
OSCAR GOES ON A TRIP
8:00 PM Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
11:15 PM A Passage to India (1984)
2:15 AM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
4:30 AM A Little Romance (1979)
Wednesday, March 4
OSCAR GOES SOUTH OF THE BORDER
6:30 AM Juarez (1939)
8:45 AM Fiesta (1947)
10:30 AM The Champ (1931)
12:00 PM The Brave One (1956)
2:00 PM Cowboy (1958)
3:45 PM The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
6:00 PM The Night of the Iguana (1964)
OSCAR GOES HOME
8:00 PM The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
11:00 PM Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
1:15 AM Volver (2006)
3:30 AM Some Came Running (1958)
Thursday, March 5
OSCAR GOES TO BOOK CLUB
6:00 AM A Farewell to Arms (1932)
7:30 AM Of Mice and Men (1939)
9:30 AM A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
11:45 AM Great Expectations (1946)
1:45 PM Tom Jones (1963)
4:00 PM Madame Bovary (1949)
6:00 PM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
OSCAR GOES INTO POLITICS
8:00 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
10:15 PM The Great McGinty (1940)
12:00 AM Seven Days in May (1964)
2:15 AM The Fog of War (2003)
4:15 AM The Candidate (1972)
Friday, March 6
OSCAR GOES INTERNATIONAL
6:15 AM Immortal Love (1961)
8:15 AM Yojimbo (1961)
10:15 AM Autumn Sonata (1978)
12:15 PM Bicycle Thieves (1948)
2:00 PM I Vitelloni (1953)
4:00 PM The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
6:00 PM The 400 Blows (1959)
OSCAR GOES TO SPACE
8:00 PM For All Mankind (1989)
9:30 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
12:15 AM Marooned (1969)
2:30 AM Forbidden Planet (1956)
Saturday, March 7
OSCAR GOES ON AN ADVENTURE
4:15 AM Anthony Adverse (1936)
6:45 AM Mighty Joe Young (1949)
8:30 AM The Jungle Book (1942)
10:30 AM Mogambo (1953)
12:30 PM The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
2:15 PM Born Free (1966)
4:00 PM King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
6:00 PM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
8:00 PM The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
10:30 PM Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
1:45 AM The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
3:30 AM The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
Sunday, March 8
OSCAR GOES TO NEW YORK
6:00 AM Speedy (1928)
7:30 AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
9:15 AM On the Town (1949)
11:00 AM Guys and Dolls (1955)
1:45 PM The Apartment (1960)
4:00 PM The Goodbye Girl (1977)
6:00 PM Barefoot in the Park (1967)
8:00 PM Moonstruck (1987)
10:00 PM Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
12:00 AM Arthur (1981)
2:00 AM Midnight Cowboy (1969)
4:00 AM Klute (1971)
Monday, March 9
OSCAR GOES STEADY (YOUNG LOVE)
6:00 AM Romeo and Juliet (1937)
8:15 AM Four Daughters (1938)
10:00 AM Janie (1944)
11:45 AM Little Women (1933)
1:45 PM Splendor in the Grass (1961)
4:00 PM Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
6:00 PM East of Eden (1955)
OSCAR GOES SILENT
8:00 PM Sunrise (1927)
10:00 PM The Artist (2011)
12:00 AM Wings (1927)
2:30 AM The Racket (1928)
4:00 AM The Crowd (1928)
5:45 AM The Circus (1928)
Tuesday, March 10
OSCAR GOES TO WORK
7:00 AM The Front Page (1931)
8:45 AM Bachelor Mother (1939)
10:15 AM Woman of the Year (1942)
12:00 PM Bells are Ringing (1960)
2:15 PM The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
4:00 PM Executive Suite (1954)
6:00 PM Alice Doesn’t Live Here
Anymore (1974)
IN MEMORIAM TRIBUTE: ROBERT DUVALL
8:00 PM Tender Mercies (1983)
10:00 PM The Great Santini (1979)
12:15 AM Apocalypse Now (1979)
OSCAR GOES ON A BENDER
3:45 AM The Champ (1979)
6:00 AM A Star is Born (1937)
Wednesday, March 11
OSCAR GOES TO THE CITY
8:00 AM Tulsa (1949)
9:30 AM San Francisco (1936)
11:30 AM The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
1:30 PM The Young Philadelphians (1959)
4:00 PM Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
6:00 PM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
OSCAR GOES TO THE DOCTOR
8:00 PM Dark Victory (1939)
10:00 PM Magnificent Obsession (1954)
12:00 AM No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
1:45 AM Not as a Stranger (1955)
4:15 AM Johnny Belinda (1948)
Thursday, March 12
OSCAR GOES OFF THE RAILS
6:00 AM The Narrow Margin (1952)
7:30 AM Union Pacific (1939)
10:00 AM Closely Watched Trains (1966)
11:45 AM The Train (1964)
2:15 PM Travels with My Aunt (1972)
4:15 PM Brief Encounter (1945)
5:45 PM Some Like It Hot (1959)
OSCAR GOES SOUTH
8:00 PM A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
10:15 PM Selma (2014)
12:30 AM To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
2:45 AM Jezebel (1938)
4:30 AM The Great Santini (1979)
Friday, March 13
OSCAR GOES TO THE COAST
6:30 AM Min and Bill (1930)
7:45 AM Topper Takes a Trip (1939)
9:15 AM Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
11:15 AM Woman in the Dunes (1964)
2:00 PM Mystery Street (1950)
4:00 PM Summer of ’42 (1971)
6:00 PM The Sandpiper (1965)
OSCAR GOES TO BAT
8:00 PM Field of Dreams (1989)
10:00 PM Bull Durham (1988)
12:00 AM Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
1:45 AM The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
4:00 AM The Stratton Story (1949)
Saturday, March 14
OSCAR GOES FOR THE LAUGH
6:00 AM The Great Dictator (1940)
8:15 AM A Day at the Races (1937)
10:15 AM It Happened One Night (1934)
12:15 PM Annie Hall (1977)
2:00 PM Lover Come Back (1961)
4:00 PM The Producers (1967)
5:45 PM The Fortune Cookie (1966)
8:00 PM Tootsie (1985)
10:15 PM My Man Godfrey (1936)
12:00 AM The Philadelphia Story (1940)
2:00 AM Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
3:45 AM 10 (1979)
Sunday, March 15
OSCAR GOES HOLLYWOOD
6:00 AM It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
7:45 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
10:15 AM Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
12:15 PM A Star is Born (1954)
3:30 PM Sunset Boulevard (1950)
5:30 PM The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
8:00 PM The Oscar (1966)
10:15 PM The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
12:30 AM Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
2:45 AM The Player (1992)
5:00 AM Susan Slept Here (1954)
You can see TCM’s announcement at:
When Are the 2026 Oscars?
The 2026 Academy Awards (aka “The Oscars”) are on Sunday, March 15, 2026, and will be broadcast live by ABC-TV. The 98th Oscars will be held at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC, streamed live on Hulu and air live in more than 200 territories worldwide.
For a list of all the 2026 Oscar winners and nominees visit: Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: 2026 Nominees. You can follow fan discussions on the Academy Facebook Page.
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Complete TCM Schedule, Highlights
- TCM Schedule
- TCM 31 Days of Oscar: Part I
- TCM 31 Days of Oscar Part 2
- TCM Highlights for March
- TCM Alphabetical List of March Films
- TCM Star of the Month for March: George Brent
- Jerry Lewis 100th Birthday March 16
- Hollywood Humanitarians March 18, 25
- National Film Registry March 19
- Directed by John Hughes March 27
- TCM Newsletter Signup
- TCM YouTube Channel
- TCM Facebook Page.
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