Zendaya has booked her subsequent gig: She’ll hand out a gold statuette on the 96th Academy Awards. And she or he gained’t be the one Bay Space native to utter the well-known phrases, “and the Oscar goes to …”
Fellow Oakland actor Mahershala Ali and Daly Metropolis native Sam Rockwell, each Oscar winners, are additionally on the preliminary record of presenters launched by the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences on Monday, Feb. 26.
Zendaya, who lately donated $100,000 to the California Shakespeare Theater, the place she bought her begin, is at present on a month-long world press tour to advertise the discharge of “Dune: Half Two.” That seemingly would be the No. 1 film on the world field workplace by the point of the March 10 awards ceremony and earlier than her subsequent massive launch, the tennis drama “Challengers,” due out April 26.
Ali, most lately seen within the Netflix drama “Go away the World Behind,” gained supporting actor Oscars for 2016 finest image winner “Moonlight” and 2018 finest image winner “Inexperienced E book.” Rockwell, lately seen within the comedy thriller “Argylle” and shortly to be seen within the stay action-animated fantasy “IF,” gained a finest supporting actor statuette for “Three Billboards Outdoors Ebbing, Missouri” (2017).
Others presenters embrace former San Francisco resident Nicolas Cage (“Dream Situation”), Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, which teases the potential for a “Scarface” reunion on the influential movie’s fortieth anniversary; Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey and Lupita Nyong’o. All are previous Oscar winners aside from Pfeiffer, a three-time nominee and former Peninsula resident.
As well as, all 4 actors who gained Academy Awards finally yr’s ceremony — “Every thing All over the place All at As soon as” stars Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan; and “The Whale” star Brendan Fraser — are slated to current. Though the Academy didn’t announce any pairings or who will current which awards Monday, it’s conventional for the earlier yr’s performing winners to current the present yr’s performing awards.
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96th Academy Awards: Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, broadcasting stay from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on ABC, beginning at 4 p.m. March 10.
