Sunday's Oscars Lineup Revealed!

The Academy Awards will air this Sunday at 8 PM EST, but for those who can't wait that long, the lineup for the ceremony has been revealed below!

One of Hollywood's biggest directors, Steven Spielberg, will be awarding the Best Picture winner with their statuette. Following the night's biggest award, the New York City/Staten Island School choir will finish the show with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz.

Other highlights, as reported by Dateline.com, include:

 

• "Hilary Swank and Kathryn Bigelow will hand out Best Director.
• Hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway pop up almost every minute and make at least 5 wardrobe changes and open the show with one of those Billy Crystal-originated films putting themselves into scenes from all the 10 nominated movies.
• A "Guest Host" will perform a monologue about 2/3s of the way into the show and the person isn't identified and every insider isn't talking -- but I bet it's Billy Crystal.
• Celine Dion will sing "Smile" during the In Memoriam segment.
• A tribute to Lena Horne will be presented by Halle Berry.
• Justin Timberlake (The Social Network) and Mila Kunis (BLACK SWAN) present the Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short Film Oscars.
• Russell Brand (Get Him To The Greek) and Helen Mirren (Red) present the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
• Oprah Winfrey presents Best Documentary feature. Meanwhile, her BFF Gayle King will be backstage doing live interviews.
• Last year's Best Actor winner Jeff Bridges (True Grit) presents the Best Actress Oscar."

 

For the entire Deadline.com article, click here.

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