【Esther Moser】

The Esther Moserinterminable self-congratulatory awards slog that is the Oscars is trying to do right by you, the viewer, and has decided to shift its mind-numbing, never-ending extravaganza of dresses and "SPEECHABLE MOMENTS" back a whole half-hour earlier.

Despite the drama in 2017 with wrong envelopes and the wrong name announced and all that fun stuff, the show was still very, very, very long.

So, in an effort to throw us all a bone, the Oscars announced Monday morning that they are going to kick-off at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT for the March 4, 2018 edition of the awards show on ABC, meaning the awards show should wrap up sometime around 12:30 a.m. on March 5, 2018 for viewers on the East Coast.

Thank you for your altruism, Oscars!

This means the ABC red carpet pre-show will start at 6:30 p.m. ET and the total network run-time for the awards show will run to close to six hours, as the Oscars get closer to being an insane all-day affair like the Super Bowl.

Anyway.

There's also a new teaser for the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted affair that includes clips from movies that will probably get some Oscar love, like Dunkirkand Get Out, some that absolutely shouldn't like Transformersand Daddy's Home 2, and some that probably won't but absolutely should like Wonder Womanand Fate of the Furious(aka Fast & Furious 8).

You've got three months to prepare so hop to it.