The 2017 Oscars are discerning approaching! While you’re finalizing your observation celebration guest list, we competence be wondering who a Academy has arguable to uncover adult to their big party, too. From a performers to a presenters to a honorees themselves, a guest list is star-studded from tip to bottom. First of all, there’s…
The host.
Jimmy Kimmel will be stepping adult to a mic to lift a uncover Sunday night. The star (whose Jimmy Kimmel Live! also front on Oscar network ABC) has hosted a Emmys twice, in 2012 and 2016, though this will be his initial spin as speaker of Hollywood’s biggest night. But of course, a running joke or two, a discerning pizza– or cookie-serving interlude, a snarky monologue creation fun of Hollywood, and/or an introductory low-pitched number do not a whole telecast make. To fill in Kimmel’s gaps with some additional memorable Oscar moments, we’ve got…
The performers.
This year, a rite will embody live performances of all 5 Best Original Song nominees (unlike final year’s show, during that only three of a nominated songs done it to a stage). John Legend’s La La Land song “Start a Fire” didn’t measure a nod, though a crooner will be representing a acclaimed complicated low-pitched by behaving both of a nominated marks on Oscar night. Covering for La La Land stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, Legend will sing both Gosling’s regretful “City of Stars” and Stone’s confessional “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” on Sunday.
Lin-Manuel Miranda could make story this weekend: Nominated for Moana’s “How Far I’ll Go,” if Miranda wins a Oscar for Best Original Song, it will make a 37-year-old a youngest EGOT leader ever. The already much-decorated artist behind Hamilton (who has a Pulitzer Prize in further to all that Grammy, Tony, and Emmy love) will perform a nominated balance along with Auli’i Cravalho, a 16-year-old singer who supposing a voice of a charcterised film’s pretension character.
Sting picked adult his fourth Best Original Song nod this year, for “The Empty Chair,” his grant to a documentary Jim: The James Foley Story, and he will perform a ballad during a ceremony. Justin Timberlake scored his initial nomination, for final summer’s disco-inspired smash “Can’t Stop a Feeling!” from a charcterised film Trolls, and a former boy-bander will take a Oscar theatre to perform a expansive cocktail lane on Sunday night. In further to a nominated strain performances, Sara Bareilles will be on-hand to broach a In Memoriam reverence to a stars we mislaid in a final year.
“Wait a minute,” we say. “This isn’t a Grammys! We’re here for a awards, not usually a performances!” And right we are, Oscarologists! That’s why, in between Kimmel’s jokes and Legend’s serenades, a teleprompter will persevere a energies to…
The presenters.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson, Mark Rylance, and Alicia Vikander are all scheduled to appear in suitability with a Academy’s tradition of a prior year’s Best Actor presenting to a new Best Actress, and vice-versa, in both a lead and ancillary categories.
Also slated to present are stream nominees Matt Damon (Manchester By a Sea producer), Ryan Gosling (La La Land), Dev Patel (Lion), Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures), Emma Stone (La La Land), and Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins), past winners Javier Bardem, Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Shirley MacLaine, Charlize Theron, and Faye Dunaway, as good as past Oscar nominees Amy Adams, Salma Hayek, Taraji P. Henson, Samuel L. Jackson, Felicity Jones, and Hailee Steinfeld. Rounding out a list of stars handing out prizes are Riz Ahmed, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Gael García Bernal, Sofia Boutella, John Cho, Jamie Dornan, Chris Evans, Michael J. Fox, Scarlett Johansson, Dakota Johnson, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Leslie Mann, Kate McKinnon, Janelle Monáe, David Oyelowo, Seth Rogen, and Vince Vaughn.
But what good are presenters though presentees? The genuine stars of a night, whose outfits will be a many glamorous, their reactions a many GIF-able, and their speeches a many political, are…
The nominees.
While usually one star in any difficulty will take a theatre to accept an award, a camera is certain to cut divided from a movement to dawdle on faces in a assembly — generally the ones who competence be holding home a statuette after in a show. Keep an eye out for Meryl Streep, who picked adult a record 20th assignment this year, for her lead purpose in Florence Foster Jenkins. Joining Streep in a Best Actress category, demeanour for past leader Natalie Portman and repeat hopeful Emma Stone, who got nods for Jackie and La La Land, respectively. Last though not least, a register of a year’s best heading ladies includes first-time nominees Ruth Negga, nominated for Loving, and mythological French singer Isabelle Huppert, famous for her opening in Elle.
Their counterparts in a Best Actor competition are Stone’s dancing partner in La La Land, two-time hopeful Ryan Gosling, as good as a actress’s former web-slinging rescuer in The Amazing Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield (nominated for a initial time, for Hacksaw Ridge). Viggo Mortensen scored a warn curtsy (his second) for a indie Captain Fantastic, though prognosticators have quietly narrowed this competition down to two: Batman’s small hermit Casey Affleck, who racked adult his second assignment for his star spin in Manchester by a Sea, and Denzel Washington, whose Tony-winning purpose in Fences could land him a third Academy Award.
But hey, cinema — and awards shows — would be zero though ancillary players, too! In a using for Best Supporting Actress, frontrunner Viola Davis is nominated for her purpose in Fences (for that she, like Washington, formerly won a Tony); Davis’ former The Help costar Octavia Spencer, who took home an Oscar in 2012 for that film, got a curtsy for Hidden Figures; Lion’s Nicole Kidman and Manchester by a Sea’s Michelle Williams are both four-time nominees (and Kidman a past winner) and arguable best-dressed list dwellers; and finally, a race’s usually first-time nominee, Naomie Harris, picked adult a curtsy for her purpose in Moonlight.
Moonlight leads a Best Supporting Actor race, with predictors’ favorite Mahershala Ali, who landed his initial assignment for his purpose in a drama. Joining him are associate first-timers Dev Patel, for Lion, and Lucas Hedges, who pennyless out this year in Manchester by a Sea. This isn’t Nocturnal Animals’ Michael Shannon’s initial rodeo, as he’s been nominated once before, though even he looks like an Oscar newbie subsequent to a fifth Best Supporting Actor nominee, onetime leader Jeff Bridges, who collected his seventh curtsy for Hell or High Water.
But of course, a above list usually includes about 50 people, and a Dolby seats 3,400. So that leaves…
Everybody else.
It’s tough to know accurately who will be attending other than those who are scheduled to seem onstage, have nominations themselves, worked on a nominated film, or are a date of anybody who falls into one of those categories. In further to those directly connected to this year’s ceremony, any studio gets a series of seats, and there’s a sheet lottery for Academy members (of that there are over 6,600). So you’ll usually have to balance in on Sunday night to see who else, exactly, will seem — not to discuss who won’t. Four-time leader and 24-time hopeful Woody Allen has consistently skipped a ceremony, for instance; George C. Scott and Marlon Brando, among others, famously refused to attend in years that they finished adult winning; and usually final year, Spike Lee was among a stars who boycotted a show due to a #OscarsSoWhite controversy. This year, we already know of one important no-show during least: Iranian hopeful Asghar Farhadi, whose film The Salesman is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, spoke out against Trump’s immigration anathema — and settled that he will not be attending a Oscars.