UPDATED, 12:00 PM: Steven Yeun is a shock last-minute add the ensemble solid of Academy Award presenters, the Oscarcast producer stated at present. The Minari star is the primary Asian-American Finest Actor nominee within the Oscars’ 93-year historical past.
“Shock!” producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh stated in a press release. “We’re so excited to welcome Steven to the crew, and he completes our Oscars solid. No, actually, that is it.”
They’d stated earlier this week that the additions of Viola Davis and Riz Ahmed would spherical out the presenter lineup.
Together with that duo, Yeun joins a presenter lineup that additionally contains Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Bong Joon Ho, Don Cheadle, Bryan Cranston, Laura Dern, Harrison Ford, Regina King, Marlee Matlin, Rita Moreno, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, Renée Zellweger and Zendaya.
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PREVIOUSLY, April 22: Oscar nominees Viola Davis and Riz Ahmed are becoming a member of the ensemble solid slated to current on the 93rd Oscars, present producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh introduced at present.
Davis, a Finest Supporting Actress Oscar winner for Fences, is a 4 time nominee and in rivalry this 12 months for Finest Actress in Ma Rainey’s Black Backside, for which she received the SAG Award as Lead Actress. Ahmed, an Emmy winner, is a first-time Oscar nominee within the Finest Actor class for Sound of Steel.
When requested at Saturday’s press convention if any new additions to the “solid” of presenters could be coming, Soderbergh stated they might be asserting two ultimate names however that “logistics” have been holding up making it public at the moment. One motive is likely to be that voting nonetheless was occurring till Tuesday at 5 p.m. PT and the Academy won’t have needed to offer the number of two precise nominees any sort of publicity increase by asserting they have been additionally a part of the present. Though it’s fairly widespread to have nominees additionally act as presenters in the identical 12 months, it appeared that Oscar producers have been avoiding that this time.
“We’re thrilled Viola and Riz have joined our solid,” Collins, Sher and Soderbergh stated in a press release. “Regardless that they’re nominees, we actually felt they wanted to be part of our Oscar ensemble.”
Ahmed and Davis spherical out the various lineup that features Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Bong Joon Ho, Don Cheadle, Bryan Cranston, Laura Dern, Harrison Ford, Regina King, Marlee Matlin, Rita Moreno, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, Renée Zellweger and Zendaya.
The 93rd Oscars will air stay on ABC beginning at 5 p.m. PT Sunday from Union Station in Los Angeles, the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, worldwide areas by way of satellite tv for pc.