The 85th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday 24 February, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The awards ceremony begins at 1.30amGMT.
Sky Movies will air the red carpet arrivals live from 11.30pm GMT, on Sky Movies Oscars (and HD) and Sky Living (and HD). The actual awards ceremony will air on Sky Movies Oscars (and HD) from 1.30am GMT to 4am GMT.
There are, as ever, several big names in contention for a prestigious
Oscar, but the biggest among them are two films with strongly
patriotic/military themes - Ben Affleck's Argo and Steven Spielberg's
Lincoln. Also in contention is Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, a
re-telling of the US hunt for Osama Bin Laden and, on a lighter note,
the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook. If Daniel Day-Lewis picks
up the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Lincoln, he will become
the first actor in cinema history to win the coveted award three times.
Hosts and Presenters
The event will be hosted by the comic actor Seth MacFarlane. Academy
Award winners Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman will be among this
year's high-profile presenters, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil
Meron revealed on Friday 22 February.
"Between the two of them, Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman have
created more iconic characters than any other pair of actors in the
world," Zadan and Meron said in a statement released to Entertainment
Weekly. "Their participation in this year's Oscars completes a list of
presenters and performers that truly represents that great breadth and
depth of acting talent in film today."
Nicholson has been nominated 12 times - more than any other actor -
and has won Best Actor Oscars for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
and As Good as It Gets (1997). He also won the award for Best
Supporting Actor in Terms of Endearment (1983).
Hoffman has been nominated seven times and has won awards for leading roles in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988).
Other presenters at the Oscars ceremony will include Kristen Stewart,
Jennifer Aniston, Michael Douglas, Jamie Foxx, Paul Rudd, Salma Hayek,
Melissa McCarthy, Liam Neeson, John Travolta, Ben Affleck, Jessica
Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock and Nicole
Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Mark Wahlberg, Jean Dujardin, Octavia Spencer
and Meryl Streep.
