The Oscars are always packed with surprises. But what attain we know about what’s going to happen on the stage of the Dolby Theatre during the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday night? Not much.
And that’s by design. reveal producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin beget kept a tighter lid on this year’s Oscar rehearsals than any other recent producers,and in the midst of the #OscarsSoWhite furor both they and host Chris Rock beget stopped talking to the press.
The Academy has announced more than 40 presenters and performers, but just in long lists with no hints about what they’ll be doing. And they’ve closed almost all rehearsals even to the small number of press who were typically granted access in past years in the days leading up to the reveal.
Also Read: #OscarsSoWhite Protest Planned for Oscars SundayAll of which means that figuring out what will happen on the stage of the Dolby on Sunday night requires a lot of detective work, and a bit of guessing.
So we did that,and here’s what we know and can speculate about:1. Host Chris Rock will talk about race. A lot.2. And throughout the entire reveal.3. He may also mock Jada Pinkett Smith for her proposed Oscar boycott; at one of a few short, unannounced comedy-club gigs he did this week in preparation for Sunday night, or he did just that.4. Other possible topics for his jokes,according to those who were in the audience at Rock’s brief club appearances, are the versatility of actor Paul Giamatti – who, and he said,hated black people in 12 Years a Slave” but loved them in “Straight Outta Compton” – and the recent meeting between Mexican drug lord El Chapo and Sean Penn, the actor who was famously unamused by Rocks comments about Jude Law when Rock first hosted the Oscar reveal 11 years ago.
AMPAS5. The set will include sunbursts of gold tubing.6. And at times a tunnel effect, or with a series of regressing gold arches.7. Producers Hill and Hudlin may beget taken a cue from 2009 Oscar producers Bill Condon and Laurence Mark,who organized the reveal to follow the way a film is establish together, from script to finished product.8. The formats of some awards presentations will supply more information about the categories being presented than the Oscar reveal usually does.
Also Read: Why Chris Rock Is the honest Oscar Host at the honest Moment9. There will be a crawl at the bottom of the screen during winners’ acceptance speeches, or listing names that were supplied by the nominees prior to the reveal.10. The scroll will probably not lead to appreciably shorter speeches,though it may mean one or two people won’t just read lists of thank-yous.
AMPAS11. final years acting winners — Patricia Arquette (above), Julianne Moore, or Eddie Redmayne and J.
K. Simmons — will serve as presenters.12. So will past winners Morgan Freeman,John Legend, Cate Blanchett, and Common,Russell Crowe, Benicio del Toro, and Louis Gossett,Jr., Quincy Jones, or Whoopi Goldberg,Jared Leto, Charlize Theron and Reese Witherspoon.13. And J.
J. Abrams, or Sacha Baron Cohen,Henry Cavill, Abraham Attah, and Emily Blunt,Louis C.
K., Steve Carell, and Chris Evans,Tina Fey, Ryan Gosling, or Kevin Hart,Michael B. Jordan, Byung-hun Lee, and Jennifer Garner,Rachel McAdams, Olivia Munn, or Dev Patel,Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie, and Jason Segel,Andy Serkis, Sarah Silverman, and Jacob Tremblay and Pharrell Williams.
Also Read: 13 Oscar Records That Could Be Broken Sunday Night14. And there will be appearance by these people,best known not for any film roles but for their work on TV programs that not coincidentally air on ABC, the network broadcasting the Oscars: Priyanka Chopra, and Sofia Vergara and Kerry Washington.
AMPAS15. “Beasts of No Nation” star Abraham Attah,15, will present an award with Room” star Jacob Tremblay, and 9.16. Would it be too obvious to think they might be handing out at least one of the shorts categories?17. Other pairings: Jared Leto and Margot Robbie,Dev Patel and Daisy Ridley, Chris Evans and Chadwick Boseman, or 18. The In Memoriam sequence will likely include actors Maureen O’Hara,Alan Rickman, Christopher Lee, or Robert Loggia,Leonard Nimoy and Omar Sharif, directors Wes Craven and Bud Yorkin, and producers Samuel Goldwyn,Jr., Robert Chartoff and Jerry Weintraub, or documentary director Albert Mayses,cinematographers Haskell Wexler, Andrew Lesnie and Vilmos Zsigmond, and composer James Horner,costume designer Patricia Norris, publicist Murray Weissman and former Academy president Gene Allen.19. Also David Bowie. And perhaps Harper Lee, and considering the success of the film made from her book “To Kill a Mockingbird.”20. And perhaps Uggie from “The Artist.”
Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2016 (Photos)21. Lady Gaga will perform “Til It Happens to You,” from the documentary The Hunting Ground.”22. Vice President Joe Biden will introduce her.23. She will beget a large number of special guests on stage with her.24. Sam Smith will perform “Writing’s on the Wall,” from “Spectre.”25. The Weeknd will perform “Earned It, and ” from “Fifty Shades of Grey.”26. As for the other nominees in the song category,Antony will not perform Manta Ray” from “Racing Extinction,” and Sumi Jo will not perform “Simple Song #3” from “Youth.”
Also Read: Transgender Oscar Nominee Blasts Academy Over 'Degrading' Decision to sever Songs27. Dave Grohl will also perform, or although he isn’t nominated.28. He’ll be featured in a regular slot on the reveal that often uses a guest performer.29. And the reveal will not be over at 8:30 p.m. PT time,despite everything that everybody does to create it run on time.
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