Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Elle Fanning, Whoopi Goldberg, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow, Amy Poehler, June Squibb and Bowen Yang will present at Oscars 2025, Academy announced on Tuesday. The Join last year’s actor Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy, Da’vine Joy Randolph and Emma Stone to distribute statues on March 2, when the 97th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theater Ovation Hollywood, host of Conan O’Brien.
As previously announced, the show will see the return of the “Fab 5” format, where former winners are on stage and praise each of this year’s nominees. In the past, the format has been used for the actress categories, But not this yearGiven the implosion of “Emilia Pérez” leading actress Karla Sofía Gascón’s campaign because of her History of bigoted tweets. Instead, five previous winners will gather to highlight talent below the line.
The 97th Academy Award’s executive producer and Showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producer Katy Mullan had also previously announced that Rob Paine will return as Co-Executive producer and Taryn Hurd and Sarah Levine Hall will return as producers. The show’s production team includes director Hamish Hamilton, Production Designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley, Music Director Michael Beaarden, supervising choreographer Mandy Moore (not to confuse the actress) and lighting designs Robert Dickinson and Noah Mitz.
Author for this year’s show includes Amberia Allen, José Arroyo, Josh Comers, Dan Cronin, Jessie Gaskell, Skyler Higley, Berkley Johnson, Ian Karmel, Brian Kiley, Laurie Kilmartin, Carol Leifer, Jon Macks, Conan O’Brien, Matt O ‘Brien , Agathe Panaretos and Mike Sweeney.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC and Stream Live on Hulu on Sunday, March 2, at. 19.00 et/16.00 pt. It is also broadcast in more than 200 territories all over the world.
More names of participating talent will roll out in the coming weeks.
