Zoe Saldaña, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Zegler, More Stars Added to Oscar Presenters Lineup

Dave Bautista, Harrison Ford, Andrew Garfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Zoe Saldaña, Rachel Zegler, Margaret Qualley, Alba Rohrwacher, and Gal Gadot, are the latest stars to join the presenters list for the 97th Oscars on March 2.

They join Ana de Armas, Lily-Rose Depp, Selena Gomez, Willem Dafoe, Joe Alwyn, Sterling K. Brown, Goldie Hawn, Connie Nielsen, Ben Stiller, and Oprah Winfrey, while Nick Offerman will serve as the announcer for this year’s ceremony.

Other presenters include Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Elle Fanning, Whoopi Goldberg, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow, Amy Poehler, June Squibb, Bowen Yang and last year’s Oscar winners Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Robert Downey Jr., who were previously announced.

Stone won best actress for playing Bella Baxter in “Poor Things” by Yorgos Lanthimos; Murphy was best actor for his role as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”; Downey Jr. won best supporting actor for playing Lewis Strauss in “Oppenheimer”; Randolph won best supporting actress for her performance as Mary Lamb in “The Holdovers,” directed by Alexander Payne.

Stone is a two-time Oscar winner, having won previously for her role in Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land.” Murphy, Downey Jr., and Randolph were all first-time winners in 2024.

When accepting her second Oscar, Stone told the crowd that she had been “panicking” about the possibility of winning the award.

“Yorgos [Lanthimos] said to me, please take yourself out of it. And he was right because it’s not about me. It’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts.”

Conan O’Brien will host the 97th Oscars ceremony, which will be held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2 at 4 p.m. PT and 7 p.m. ET.

The ceremony is aired on ABC or streamed live on Hulu, an option added for the first time this year. The red carpet begins airing at 30 minutes before the show.

The production team includes executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor, executive producer Katy Mullan, co-executive producer Rob Pain, and producers Sarah Levine Hall, Taryn Hurd, Jeff Ross and Mike Sweeney. Mandy Moore is the supervising choreographer, and Noah Mitz and Bob Dickinson will be the lighting designers. Hamish Hamilton will direct the show.