The Oscars 2023 have already begun to roll out the red carpet and have begun to shine their golden statuettes and that is when there are only nine days left until the great night of cinema is celebrated, the Academy has shared a first list of the presenters of this 95th editionincluding names like Glenn Close, Dwayne Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson, Zoe Saldaña, Emily Blunt or Jennifer Connelly.
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The list is completed by other names such as Ariana DeBose, Troy Kotsur, Riz Ahmed, Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Majors, Melissa McCarthy, Janelle Monáe, Deepika Padukone, Questlove, and Donnie Yen. The gala will be hosted by comedian and presenter Jimmy Kimmel, who will lead the ceremony for the third time, since he already did so in 2017 and 2018.
Traditionally, whoever wins in the acting categories return the following year to present the award, however, this time the winner of the 2022 best actor award, Will Smith, will not be there to deliver the statuette, neither in person nor virtually, since he has been banned for ten years by the Academy after the slap he gave Chris Rock.
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In fact, the Academy has prepared a protocol so that an episode of these characteristics does not happen again. “We have a whole crisis team, something we’ve never had before. What happened last year is not going to happen again. We weren’t up to it.”. has declared Bill Kramer executive director of the Academy.
The winner of the best actress of 2022, Jessica Chastain, will not be able to attend the Oscars either, since her Broadway play A Doll’s House officially opens on March 9 at the Hudson Theater in Manhattan, where it will run for 16 weeks.
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Those who will be on stage at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles will be the two winners of the 2022 Best Supporting Actor award, Troy Kotsur and Ariana DeBose, who made history, respectively, as the first deaf male actor and the first black woman. who is part of the LGTBI collective to win a statuette. Also Taking the stage will be honorary 2022 Oscar winner Samuel L. Jackson and the legendary Glenn Close, who has been nominated eight times and has never won.
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Recently the organization confirmed the participation of Rihanna, who will sing the song ‘Lift Me Up’, from the film Black Panther: Wankanda Forever, while Sofia Carson and Diane Warren will perform ‘Applause’, from Tell It Like A Woman. David Byrne, Son Lux and Stephanie Hsu will also perform at the ceremony with the song ‘This Is a Life’, from the film All at Once Everywhere.
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The tapes that are outlined as the favorites to win the Oscar for best film are Everything at once everywhere which recently won the Producers Guild Award, The Fabelmansby Steven Spielberg, after his triumph at the Golden Globes, as well as SYoNo novelty on the frontby Edward Berger, which was crowned at the BAFTA Awards.
In the queen category there are also big-budget works such as films Top Gun: Maverick, by Joseph Kosinski, and Avatar: the sense of waterby James Cameron, and films with less commercial projection such as The triangle of sadnessby Ruben Östlund, or They speakfrom filmmaker Sarah Polley.