The nominations landed in January and the ceremony was March 15 in Los Angeles.
98th Academy Awards
The nominations came out in January with ten films competing for Best Picture. Paul Thomas Anderson collected the Director trophy he had been circling for decades; Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor by playing twins in Ryan Coogler's "Sinners." You probably saw two of these and meant to see the rest.
Check the names you recognize. Heard-of counts.