Undercover agent the Oscars 2023 Celeb Presenters Rehearsing for Sunday’s Enormous Awards Show

Rehearsing for Hollywood’s Supreme Night

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With splendid one day to movement earlier than the Ninety fifth Academy Awards, Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre used to be abuzz with last-minute Oscars prep. A gripping succession of A-list stars rehearsed lines and mastered blocking in anticipation of Hollywood’s largest night.

Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors

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Rehearsal shenanigans unfolded in immediate, starry succession. Creed III actors Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors fist-bumped as they walked to heart stage.

Pals Originate air the Ring

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Having nailed their parts, Jordan, 36, and Majors, 33, took a moment for a prolonged hug earlier than strolling off stage aspect by aspect.

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield

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“Seemingly don’t assemble that?” Florence Pugh playfully chided co-presenter Andrew Garfield when he broke into giggles on stage fairly than finding out his lines off the TelePrompter. Garfield eventually nailed his script and the pair — two of over a dozen actors to take the stage earlier than lunchtime on Saturday — headed off.

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Pugh, 27, earned her first Oscar nomination in 2020, receiving a Most efficient Supporting Actress nod for her performance in Diminutive Females. Garfield, 39, has twice been nominated for Most efficient Actor, in 2017 for Hacksaw Ridge and last year for Tick, Tick… Notify!

Most efficient Seat in Town

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Sunday’s awards say is anticipated to be fairly the basic individual-studded occasion with a line-up of nominees including Brendan Fraser, Colin Farrell, Austin Butler, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, Ana de Armas, Brendan Gleeson, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brian Tyree Henry, Barry Keoghan, Ke Huy Quan and more.

Undercover agent the total list of nominees all the draw in which thru all 23 categories here.

Host with the Most

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Jimmy Kimmel is web hosting this year, his third time in the emceeing gig. He beforehand hosted in 2017 and 2018. Closing year’s hosts had been Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Corridor.

Kimmel, 55, impartial today suggested PEOPLE that though he is doing a total bunch preparation — including running bits and ideas by his wife Molly McNearney, an govt producer for the Oscars broadcast — he likes to movement away wiggle room for the sudden.

“I treasure to movement in 75 percent exciting and poke away some room for improvisation and reacting to the say because it be occurring. I poke to offer it 110 percent,” he talked about.

Celeb Presenters

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A basic individual-studded list of presenters will also be in attendance, including Dwayne Johnson, Cara Delevingne, Harrison Ford, Eva Longoria, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Elizabeth Olsen, Pedro Pascal, John Travolta, Antonio Banderas, Elizabeth Banks, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, Glenn Shut, Jennifer Connelly, Ariana DeBose, Danai Gurira, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicole Kidman, Janelle Monáe, Questlove, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and more.

EP and Showrunner Glenn Weiss

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All thru a press convention this week, Oscars govt producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss talked in regards to the “renewed energy” around this year’s awards say.

“At the tip of the day, it be now not a roast it be a occasion.” talked about Weiss. “This year, we like a total fresh crew and renewed energy, renewed energy to take this probability to honor the film industry and the total of us who work so demanding to make motion pictures what they’re. Right here’s a occasion of the nominees this year, nonetheless it be a occasion of this industry, which is splendid coming aid and inserting out such monumental cloth.”

And the Winner Is…

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The film with the most overall nominations is The total lot In each space All at Once, which has 11 total nods. That is adopted by All Restful on the Western Entrance and The Banshees of Inisherin, which both earned 9 nominations.

The 10 Most efficient Image nominees are All Restful on the Western Entrance, Avatar: The Manner of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, The total lot In each space All at Once, The Fabelmans, Tár, Prime Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness and Females Talking.

Undercover agent the total list of nominees all the draw in which thru all 23 categories here.

Paul Dano

Paul Dano, who shall be presenting, starred in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans last year. The film is nominated for seven Oscars, including Most efficient Image, Most efficient Director and Most efficient Customary Screenplay.

Andie MacDowell and Hugh Grant

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Rocking jeans and a white button down, Andie MacDowell enjoyed a candy reunion with Hugh Grant, her Four Weddings and a Funeral costar and Oscar night co-presenter.
“I am hoping I relate it correctly,” MacDowell, 64, talked about as she opened an envelope containing the title of her class “winner” (faux unless the next day!). “I need Hugh used to be doing this section!”

Four Weddings, a Funeral and the Oscars

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Rather than MacDowell playfully commenting that she had “to earn a long way glasses made” to learn the TelePrompter, rehearsals went off without a hitch, and spirits had been excessive.

Kate Hudson

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Kate Hudson opened her hands to welcome an imagined crowd and practiced handing out a pretend Oscar statuette to face-in winners.

Hudson, 43, got her first Academy Award nomination for Most efficient Supporting Actress in 2001 for her feature in Nearly Grand.

John Cho

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Kaling, 43, and Cho, 50, worked on timing and cues earlier than Kaling panned with her iPhone to the orchestra section filled with cardboard placards emblazoned with star faces — Dwayne Johnson! Melissa McCarthy! Lenny Kravitz! — all the draw in which thru the coveted entrance rows.

Where to Be taught about

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The Ninety fifth Academy Awards starts at 8 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. PST and airs are living on ABC, a channel that’s section of your cable package. Or, to movement the broadcast, subscribe to a companies and products treasure Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV or FuboTV, some of which attain with a free trial length. You also can tune in by potential of ABC.com or the ABC app after verifying your cable supplier.

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