secondo questa notizie la cerimonia degli Academy Awards andrà a finire così:
Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford and Nicole Kidman have been confirmed as stars who will be handing out this year's Oscars.
Forest Whitaker, last year's best actor, and Dame Helen Mirren, best actress in 2007, James McAvoy, George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Renee Zellweger will also present awards on February 24.
The ceremony will include performances from Amy Adams and Jon McLaughlin, both nominated for songs from Enchanted.
The Ocars will be hosted by TV presenter and comedian Jon Stewart.
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Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman will be handing out Oscars at this year's ceremony.
Academy Award organisers also said last year's best actor and actress winners, Forest Whitaker and Dame Helen Mirren, will present awards on February 24.
Nicole Kidman will be handing out OscarsStars including Penelope Cruz, Renee Zellweger, Denzel Washington and Colin Farrell will be on hand and nominees such as Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem, Julie Christie and Ellen Page are also expected to turn out.
Amy Adams will sing Happy Working Song and Jon McLaughlin will perform So Close, from Enchanted. Both are nominated in the original song category.
The show will be hosted by comedian Jon Stewart with a team of writers that went back to work on Wednesday dreaming up jokes, sketches and other movie-oriented bits for Oscar viewers.
The Hollywood writer's strike, which began on November 5 and when film and TV writers returned to work, has crippled the US television industry and caused drastic changes to other awards ceremonies.
The Golden Globe honours, one of the glitziest annual ceremonies, was transformed into a news conference, and the result was a meagre 5.8 million viewers watching it on TV, about one-quarter the typical 20 million.
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Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford and Nicole Kidman have been confirmed as stars who will be handing out Oscars in Los Angeles later this month.
Academy Award organisers also said last year's best actor and actress winners, Forest Whitaker and Dame Helen Mirren, will present awards on 24 February.
The ceremony will include performances from Amy Adams and Jon McLaughlin, both nominated for songs from Enchanted.
The Oscars will be hosted by TV presenter and comedian Jon Stewart.
This year's ceremony was in doubt because of the Hollywood writers' strike.
It would have meant most actors would have refused to cross the picket line.
'Show A' The Golden Globes suffered such a fate and a replacement press conference attracted a quarter of the normal TV audience in the US.
Jon Stewart will present the Oscars for the second time
But Sid Ganis, president of the Academy, said he was pleased to be hosting a traditional ceremony.
"We are now full steam ahead on what has come to be known as 'show A'," he added.
Other actors who will hand out the statuettes include James McAvoy, George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Renee Zellweger.
The show's producer, Gil Cates, confirmed the strike had delayed them, saying: "We are behind in the writing, but we'll catch up.
"It'll be there. You'll hear words. I promise."
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Oscar Presenters Will Be Different This Year Miley Cyrus, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan, The Rock. Does this sound like the Oscars? It does "this" year. They'll be presenters. It's an obvious attempt by the producer of the Oscars show to grab a younger audience.
That doesn't mean the Oscars is abandoning its regular viewers. Big names like Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Harrison Ford and Renee Zellweger will be presenting, too.
Now that the writers strike has ended, stars have confirmed they'll be there Oscar night: February 24th at the Kodak Theatre.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Both a little grayer then they were a few weeks ago, Sidney Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Gilbert Cates, producer of the Oscar telecast, said they were going full steam ahead with Show A.
In a new bit of show business jargon, Show A is the normal Oscar ceremony: speeches a little too long, songs a little too loud, smiley-faced stars all over the place.
Show B is the alternative: a film-clip-heavy, almost certainly star-free retrospective planned in the event that screenwriters did not lift their strike.
Speaking at a news conference at the academy’s headquarters here on Thursday, Mr. Ganis and Mr. Cates differed slightly with regard to what might have been.
“A little part of me would like to have done that show,” offered Mr. Cates, who was dapper in a leather blazer, blue-striped shirt and jeans. “I’d like to say there’s no part of me that wanted it,” said Mr. Ganis, cutting him off.
But both were clearly delighted to have the awards show, scheduled for broadcast by ABC on Feb. 24, back in its comfortable old shoes.
The comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, a perennial contributor, is on the writing crew, they said. “The writers are writing furiously, or furiously writing,” Mr. Ganis said. Mr. Cates stressed that no word had been written before Wednesday, the first day writers could return to work without violating union rules. On Tuesday, the Writers Guild of America West and the Writers Guild of America East voted to end their 100-day strike.
Jon Stewart, who will be the host of the Oscar ceremony for a second time, is expected to arrive here Saturday to join Mr. Cates and his crew as they burn up the next 12 days organizing a show that would normally have had weeks longer to prepare.
Breaking with the past practice of releasing the names of star presenters over a period of weeks, Mr. Ganis and Mr. Cates announced an alphabetical litany of actors who are expected to take the stage on Oscar night. It ran from (Amy) Adams to (Renée) Zellweger, with stops at Clooney, Hanks and Kidman.
Mr. Cates said he had already spent weeks lining up stars on a contingency basis, knowing they were not likely to attend if writers picketed the show. He said many nominees outside the acting categories would probably have shown up for Show B, notwithstanding the strike.
Apparently many in Hollywood have had their fill of labor discord. On Friday, Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro took out a full-page advertisement in Daily Variety, the industry trade paper, urging production companies and the actors organizations to “Just Talk.” “Not later, but now,” the ad read in part. “There’s too much at stake to wait.”
The actors’ contract expires on June 30, and to help avert a walkout, those boldface names want negotiators to begin their talks long before that deadline and not to wait, as had been expected.
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cmq sono contenta che la cerimonia si farà
e k Tom sarà tra i presentatori invece di premiare come fa sempre sarà 1 occasione in + per continuare a fare nottata per vedere in diretta gli Academy Awards!!!
