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Oscar's® Planned Star-Studded Telecast; Show Participants Revealed
posted on Feb 15, 2008
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Now that the writers strike is over, the 80th Academy Awards® will
feature a host of A-list stars including Oscar winners Jennifer Hudson,
Forest Whitaker and Denzel Washington, as well as Dwayne Johnson and
Queen Latifah. The IMPACT Repertory
Theatre of Harlem will also perform. Oscar® telecast producer Gil Cates and
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis yesterday
announced the presenters and performers at a press conference held at
the Academy’s headquarters.
Presenters scheduled to date include all four of last year’s
winners in the acting categories—Hudson, Whitaker, Alan Arkin and Helen
Mirren—as well as Amy Adams, Jessica Alba, Cate
Blanchett, Josh Brolin, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz,
Miley Cyrus, Patrick Dempsey, Cameron Diaz, Colin Farrell, Harrison
Ford, Jennifer Garner, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Katherine Heigl, Jonah
Hill, Nicole Kidman, James McAvoy, Seth
Rogen, Martin Scorsese, Hilary Swank, John Travolta
and Renee Zellweger.
Cates and Ganis also announced the
performers of the nominated songs. Amy Adams will sing “Happy Working
Song” from “Enchanted” (music by Alan Menken and lyric by Stephen
Schwartz). Also from “Enchanted” (and written by Menken and Schwartz)
will be “That’s How You Know,” sung by Kristin Chenoweth and Marlon
Saunders, and “So Close,” to be performed by Jon McLaughlin.
Glen
Hansard and Marketa Irglova will perform their nominated song, “Falling
Slowly,” from the motion picture “Once,” and Jamia Simone Nash will
perform “Raise It Up,” from “August Rush,” with the IMPACT Repertory
Theatre of Harlem, headed by Jamal Joseph, who shares the song’s music
and lyric credit with Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas.
The Academy
Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 will be presented on
Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood &
Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network
beginning at 5 p.m. PT. The Oscar presentation also will be televised
live in more than 200 countries worldwide. Jon Stewart will host for the second time.
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