Oscar Nomination Date Pushed Up To Jan. 10

First Published: September 19, 2012 12:07 PM EDT Credit: Getty Images

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Meryl Streep accepts the Best Actress Award for ‘The Iron Lady’ onstage during the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, Calif. on February 26, 2012Caption Meryl Streep accepts the Best Actress Award for ‘The Iron Lady’ onstage during the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, Calif. on February 26, 2012Academy Awards organizers have moved up a key date in the upcoming season of Hollywood film honors.

Nominations for the 85th Oscars will be announced Jan. 10 — five days earlier than the academy previously announced.

Oscar overseers say the switch will give the academy’s nearly 6,000 members more time to see nominated films before the Feb. 24 awards ceremony.

The date change puts the Oscar nominations three days before Hollywood’s second-biggest film awards — the Golden Globes, whose ceremony takes place Jan. 13.

Oscar nominations typically come out after the Globes. The earlier date for Oscar nominations could steal a bit of the thunder from the Globes, which are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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