Extra Oscars presenters have been introduced, together with Joe Alwyn, Sterling Ok. Brown, Willem Dafoe, Ana de Armas, Lily-Rose Depp, Selena Gomez, Goldie Hawn, Connie Nielsen, Ben Stiller and Oprah Winfrey, whereas Nick Offerman will function the announcer for this yr’s ceremony.

They be part of Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Elle Fanning, Whoopi Goldberg, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow, Amy Poehler, June Squibb, Bowen Yang and final yr’s Oscar winners Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph and Robert Downey Jr., who have been beforehand introduced.

Stone gained finest actress for enjoying Bella Baxter in “Poor Issues” by Yorgos Lanthimos; Murphy was finest actor for his function as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”; Randolph gained finest supporting actress for her efficiency as Mary Lamb in “The Holdovers,” directed by Alexander Payne; and Downey Jr. gained finest supporting actor for enjoying Lewis Strauss in “Oppenheimer.”

Stone is a two-time Oscar winner, having gained beforehand for her function in Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land.” Murphy, Randolph and Downey Jr. have been all first-time winners in 2024.

When accepting her second Oscar, Stone informed the gang that she had been “panicking” about the opportunity of profitable the award. “Yorgos [Lanthimos] mentioned to me, please take your self out of it. And he was proper, as a result of it’s not about me. It’s a few group that got here collectively to make one thing larger than the sum of its components.”

Conan O’Brien will host the 97th Oscars ceremony, which will probably be held on the Dolby Theatre March 2 at 4 p.m. PT and seven p.m. ET. Viewers can tune into the present on ABC or stream it reside on Hulu, an choice added for the primary time this yr. The purple carpet begins airing at half-hour earlier than the ceremony.

The manufacturing group contains govt producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor, govt producer Katy Mullan, co-executive producer Rob Ache and producers Sarah Levine Corridor, Taryn Hurd, Jeff Ross and Mike Sweeney. Mandy Moore is supervising choreographer, and Noah Mitz and Bob Dickinson will probably be lighting designers. Hamish Hamilton will direct the present.