Dwayne Johnson, Jennifer Lawrence, Ramy Youssef & More Added as Oscar Presenters

Michelle Pfeiffer, Zendaya and Oscar winners Nicolas Cage and Al Pacino are among the first slate of presenters for this year’s 96th Oscars ceremony.

Also presenting are last year’s four acting winners: Brendan Fraser from “The Whale” and Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis from the best picture winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Oscar winners Mahershala Ali, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, and Sam Rockwell also are set to take the stage.

Additional presenters include Dwayne Johnson, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence, Ramy Youssef, Kate McKinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara, and Octavia Spencer.

 Moreover, all five of this year’s Academy Award-nominated original songs will be performed on the Dolby Theatre stage at the 96th Oscars. 

Jon Batiste, Becky G, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Scott George and the Osage Singers, and as Variety previously reported, Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson will present the memorable numbers.

Raj Kapoor is set to serve as the Oscars’ executive producer and showrunner, alongside executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan.

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” leads the nominations this year with 13, followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” with 11, and Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” with 10.

Rounding out the best picture lineup are “American Fiction”, “Anatomy of a Fall”, “Barbie”, “The Holdovers”, “Maestro”, “Past Lives”, and “The Zone of Interest”.

The 96th Oscars is set to place on Sunday, March 10 live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.

The show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel in his fourth outing as host, begins at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, an hour earlier than in past years.