Some Oscar traditions gained’t be taking part in out at this yr’s ceremony: Although the earlier yr’s best-actor winner historically presents greatest actress, Will Smith stays barred from the ceremony, which suggests another person should do the honors. Now we’ve a way of who that could be: The Academy has introduced the primary listing of presenters on the 2023 Oscars, which incorporates a number of of final yr’s winners like Ariana Debose, Questlove, Riz Ahmed, and Troy Kotsur.
As traditional, the lineup is a mixture of Oscar winners, up-and-coming expertise, and folks with connections to a few of the yr’s nominees. Jennifer Connelly suits two of the three, an Oscar winner who additionally starred in best-picture nominee Prime Gun: Maverick. Jonathan Majors, in the meantime, might be driving excessive on the back-to-back success of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Creed III, together with his already-buzzy efficiency in Journal Goals nonetheless to return. And Donnie Yen might serve a two-for-one objective, paying tribute to Oscar nominee and his former costar Michelle Yeoh, however perhaps additionally selling his upcoming position in John Wick: Chapter 4.
Beneath discover a listing of all of the Oscars 2023 presenters, which we’ll proceed to replace as new bulletins are made.
Riz Ahmed
An Oscar winner final yr for the brief movie The Lengthy Goodbye, in addition to a best-actor nominee in 2021 for Sound of Steel.
Emily Blunt
Nominated on the SAG Awards this yr for her efficiency within the miniseries The English, she’s additionally a part of the large solid of Christopher Nolan’s future summer time blockbuster, Oppenheimer.
Glenn Shut
Famously an eight-time Oscar nominee and superb sport, she’s a Hollywood legend with loads of connections to this yr’s nominees, from taking part in an uncredited Smee in Steven Spielberg’s Hook to a job within the upcoming comedy Brothers with Brendan Fraser.
Jennifer Connelly
The most effective-supporting-actress Oscar winner held Tom Cruise’s hand in Prime Gun: Maverick, and we are able to’t consider anybody higher to current Woman Gaga’s (not but confirmed) efficiency of the Oscar-nominated tune.
Ariana DeBose
Final yr’s best-supporting-actress winner will nearly definitely be readily available to award greatest supporting actor. Extra performances nonetheless TBD.
Samuel L. Jackson
An Oscar nominee and memorable Oscar presenter, he’s additionally received a job within the upcoming superhero movie The Marvels to advertise.
Dwayne Johnson
The extraordinarily prolific actor at all times has one thing price selling on the Oscar stage; later this yr he’ll have the Prime Video vacation motion film Purple One.
Michael B. Jordan
Creed III might very properly be the primary film in America by the point Jordan takes the stage—for a directorial debut, that appears like a reasonably good cause to rejoice.
Troy Kotsur
The CODA star is the reigning best-supporting-actor winner, which suggests he’ll seemingly be readily available to award the best-supporting-actress statuette.
Jonathan Majors
Costarring with Jordan in Creed III along with his villainous flip in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Majors is the ever present star of the second.
Melissa McCarthy
Any second that the upcoming Little Mermaid star is on an awards present stage is a memorable one. It doesn’t matter what she’s presenting, we’ll be glad to see her.
Janelle Monáe
The star of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller has a brand new single out, and fairly presumably one other album or tour on the best way after that.
Deepika Padukone
The Bollywood star was named certainly one of Time’s most influential individuals on the earth in 2018, and simply launched her highest-grossing hit but, the motion thriller Pathaan.
Questlove
In 2021 he was the in-house DJ on the stripped-down Oscar ceremony; in 2022 he was a winner for the documentary Summer season of Soul.
Zoe Saldaña
The star of best-picture nominee Avatar: The Method of Water will presumably be readily available to assist her Na’vi household, however she’s additionally received the Might launch of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 on the horizon.
Donnie Yen
The Hong Kong motion star has labored with best-actress nominee Michelle Yeoh many instances, and in addition has a job within the upcoming John Wick: Chapter 4.
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