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An Academy Awards statuette on display at a screening of the Oscars in Paris, France, on April 26, 2021. — Picture by REUTERS

Michelle Yeoh, Zendaya, Brendan Fraser to present Oscars

LOS ANGELES, Feb 27 — Organisers have revealed the first group of star-studded presenters for the 96th annual Oscars ceremony, reported the German News Agency (dpa).

Dune star Zendaya will join Academy Award-winner Al Pacino and three-time nominee Michelle Pfeiffer to present during showbiz’s biggest night of the year at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 10.

A jubilant Michelle Yeoh with her Academy Award for Best Actress, after having her Oscar engraved at the Governors Ball, following the 95th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, the United States, on March 12, 2023. — Picture by REUTERS

Also presenting will be last year’s four acting winners: Brendan Fraser from The Whale, and Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis from Everything Everywhere All At Once, it was announced yesterday.

Joining the stars will be Oscar winners Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, Jessica Lange, Lupita Nyong’o, Sam Rockwell, and Matthew McConaughey, said the ceremony’s executive producers Raj Kapoor, Molly McNearney, and Katy Mullan.

More celebrities will be added to the presenting line-up before the ceremony, hosted for the fourth time by late-night US talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel.

The 56-year-old will front the show for the second consecutive year, having hosted back-to-back Academy Award broadcasts in 2017 and 2018, the first of which saw the La La Land and Moonlight Best Picture announcement mix-up.

The ceremony will be broadcast live from Los Angeles on March 10.

— Bernama

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