Oprah Winfrey, Selena Gomez, Goldie Hawn, and More Join List of Stars Set to Present at Oscars 2025
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the latest batch of presenters for the 2025 Oscars one week after it revealed Oscar winners Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, and Whoopi Goldberg would be joining the lineup that started with last year’s Academy Award winners Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Emma Stone.
The new additions include 1970 Best Supporting Actress winner Goldie Hawn, plus former nominees like Oprah Winfrey, Sterling K. Brown, Willem Dafoe, Ana de Armas, and the stars from some of the most exciting films of 2024, including Selena Gomez (“Emilia Pérez”), Lily Rose-Depp (“Nosferatu”), Joe Alwyn (“The Brutalist”), and Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator II”). They join Ben Stiller, Elle Fanning, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow, Amy Poehler, June Squibb, and Bowen Yang, who were all also part of the previous presenter announcements.
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The latest news, first shared by the telecast’s executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producer Katy Mullan, also came with the reveal that comedian Nick Offerman, beloved star of “Parks and Recreation” and “The Last of Us,” is going to serve as the announcer for the upcoming telecast.
Though the announcement so far have not given any indication which categories each person will present, the show is expected to follow certain traditions like the most recent winner of Best Actor presenting Best Actress, and vice versa.
While the return of the “Fab 5” format, where five winners come to the stage to tribute each nominee, one by one, has also been teased, it will not be for the acting categories. That particular detail comes as a relief following the recent revelation of nominee Karla Sofía Gascón’s offensive past tweets, as there were many jokes online about who would have to be the one to do her tribute.
But while Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang were the ones to announce that the “Fab 5” format would be back at this year’s ceremony, they never specified which categories they would utilize it for.
Though they have already shown why is it not good to assume, the new expectation is that the Fab 5 format will be back for the Best Director presentation this year, though it’s worth noting that using the format for any of the categories in back-to-back year was never a sustainable endeavor, as the pool of former Oscar winners who are still alive is not particularly deep.
Producers Kapoor and Mullan will continue to announce talent joining the show in the coming weeks.
The 2025 Oscars will be hosted by Conan O’Brien from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, and air live on ABC and stream live on Hulu on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, with the official live red carpet show airing at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.
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