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The ninety fifth Academy Awards will likely be introduced on Sunday.
Sit again and get comfortable whilst you watch the glitz and glamour. The Oscar winners in all 23 classes will likely be revealed dwell, in contrast to final yr, when a number of award displays had been prerecorded in an effort to shorten the historically prolonged present.
Whereas some are nonetheless speaking about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on stage on the occasion a yr in the past, Smith received’t be in attendance on Sunday as he was banned from attending the Oscars for the subsequent 10 years.
However right here’s extra particulars on who you will note.
Jimmy Kimmel will host the present for a 3rd time. He beforehand hosted the Oscars in 2017, when “La La Land” was mistakenly introduced over “Moonlight” for finest image, and once more in 2018. As for what we will count on from Kimmel this time round? He stated he’ll preserve it easy and inform some jokes.
“I don’t have quite a lot of skills, so there’s not an enormous variety of areas for me to attract from outdoors of telling jokes,” Kimmel quipped in an interview this week. “I imply, I’m fairly good at drawing cartoons, so I suppose I might sit down and do caricatures of the celebrities?”
“The whole lot All over the place All at As soon as” leads with 11 nominations. “All Quiet on the Western Entrance” and “The Banshees of Inisherin” comply with with 9 nominations every. Blockbusters “High Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Approach of Water” every landed nominations for finest movie. Past the films, search for a efficiency from Rihanna, who’s nominated within the unique music class for “Carry Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Without end.”
Introduced presenters embody Florence Pugh, Hugh Grant, John Travolta, Halle Berry, Kate Hudson, Riz Ahmed, Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Chastain, Antonio Banderas, John Cho, Glenn Shut, Donnie Yen Ariana DeBose, Danai Gurira, Salma Hayek Pinault, Dwayne Johnson, Harrison Ford, Michael B. Jordan, Nicole Kidman, Troy Kotsur, Melissa McCarthy, Janelle Monáe, Deepika Padukone, Questlove and Zoe Saldaña.
ABC will broadcast the present beginning at 8 p.m. EST. It’s also possible to stream the Oscars on Hulu+ Stay TV, fubuTV, and DIRECTV Stream.
CNN’s Lisa France contributed to this report.