The duo should certainly be enough to brighten up the early morning announcement!
January 7, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards® will be announced by the show’s host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone on Thursday, January 10. This will be the first time since 1972 that an Oscar show host has participated in the nominations announcement.
MacFarlane and Stone will unveil the nominations at a 5:30 a.m. PT news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world will be gathered.
Since the first nominations announcement in 1964, the Academy president has been joined by one or more co-announcers at the event. This year the Academy will break with tradition when MacFarlane, who was named Oscar show host in October, joins Stone on Oscar nominations morning. Charlton Heston (1972) was the only other show host to participate in the nominations announcement.
Stone starred in the 2011 Best Picture nominee “The Help” and the summer release “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Her other film credits include “Superbad,” “Zombieland,” “Easy A” and “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” Stone will be seen in “Gangster Squad” later this month and in “The Croods,” due out in March.
Nominations information for all categories will be distributed to news media in attendance and via the Internet on the official Academy Awards website, www.oscar.com.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
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Divya
January 7, 2013 at 9:56 am
I won’t be surprised if they monkey around a bit during the announcements! This should be fun!
Any link (or webstream) where we can watch the announcement live online? I know last year it was livestreamed on Youtube. So is it going to be the same this time ’round as well?
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Clayton Davis
January 7, 2013 at 10:54 am
I’ll be doing research to find the live stream but anyone who isn’t able to, the staff and I will be broadcasting LIVE during the announcements. You can tune in and here our instant reactions.
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Divya
January 7, 2013 at 11:32 am
‘Kay. Thanks!!
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Rico
January 7, 2013 at 11:49 am
This is great! I’m sure this is to serve as MacFarlane’s introduction to the media as host of the show… Still, I can’t help but wonder if the new Academy president, Hawk Koch, didn’t feel just a little bit apprehensive about participating in the announcement himself, after Tom Sherak butchered The Artist’s director’s name last year: Michel Hazanvisfiooreudifhsefosiusus!
LOL!
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Steve
January 7, 2013 at 1:29 pm
Not to mention Sherak’s eye roll when he announced Terrence Malick.
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John Rivera
January 7, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Emma Stone, A fine choice to wake a gentleman up early in the morning though
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