Oscar Ceremony: The Presenters
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 11:45PM
Murtada Elfadl in Jane Fonda, Oscar Ceremonies, Oscars (19), Penelope Cruz, Sigourney Weaver

by Murtada Elfadl

Today the Academy and the show's producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain announced the latest batch of presenters: Jane Fonda, Josh Gad, Tom Hanks, Oscar Isaac, Sandra Oh, Natalie Portman, Chris Rock and Taika Waititi.

 

We are especially excited to see Fonda...

She last presented best actor with Helen Mirren to Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour 2 years ago and before that best director with Michael Douglas to Ang Lee for Life of Pi in 2013.


This year’s producers have already done one thing right. They are bringing back the tradition of having the previous year’s Oscar-winning actors on stage to celebrate this year’s nominees. Mahershala Ali, Olivia Colman, Regina King and Rami Malek are all confirmed to present.

Other presenters include Utkarsh Ambudkar, Zazie Beetz, Timothée Chalamet, James Corden, Penélope Cruz, Beanie Feldstein, Will Ferrell, Gal Gadot, Zack Gottsagen, Salma Hayek, Mindy Kaling, Diane Keaton, Shia LaBeouf, Brie Larson, Spike Lee, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, George MacKay, Steve Martin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Keanu Reeves, Ray Romano, Maya Rudolph, Mark Ruffalo, Kelly Marie Tran, Sigourney Weaver, Kristen Wiig and Rebel Wilson.

Reeves with Sandra Bullock at the 2006 ceremony

Some are here because they have upcoming movies they want to promote. Like Downhill with Louis-Dreyfus and Ferrell, Wonder Woman 1984 with Gadot and Wiig and In the Heights with Miranda and Ramos. There are some from best picture nominees: Beetz, Chalamet, MacKay and Wilson. Plus the usual mix of stars. However this might not be everybody, last year Julia Roberts was never announced as a presenter prior to the ceremony. Yet she had the honor of opening the last envelope of the night and saying "Green Book."


Pedro Almodovar already let it slip at the Goyas that Cruz is presenting International Feature. Though it's unlikely that she'll be calling out his name like in 1999. Care to guess other categories and pairings?

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