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How to Watch the 2023 Oscars Celebrate All 23 Categories Live Again
How to Watch the 2023 Oscars Celebrate All 23 Categories Live Again,The 2023 Oscars ceremony will air live on ABC on March 12, 2023. Jimmy Kimmel will host. Here’s how to watch the 95th Academy Awards, and everything you need to know about the pre-shows, presenters, and performers (including Rihanna).

How to Watch the 2023 Oscars Celebrate All 23 Categories Live Again

You’d think that this wouldn’t need to be news, but it is: An awards show is actually gonna show us all of its awards. Per Variety, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer has confirmed that the 2023 Oscars will present all 23 categories during the live telecast. The Academy was widely dragged last year when it demoted eight categories — Original Score, Makeup and Hairstyling, Documentary Short, Film Editing, Production Design, Animated Short, Live-Action Short, and Sound — by presenting those awards during the red carpet (which obviously meant all the seats weren’t filled). Highlight clips were later edited back into the show, but many cinema-lovers expressed outrage at the idea of giving less attention to professions that are already often underlooked. “Bullying works,” one fan tweeted in celebration after it was announced that the full categories were coming back. Here’s everything else you need to know about the ceremony, including the pre-shows, presenters, performers, and more.

How do I watch?

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony will air live out of the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 12, 2023 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. If you have a cable sign-in, you can also watch on ABC.com or the ABC app. Hulu Live TV, YouTube TV, FuboTV, and AT&T TV will stream the show as well. International fans can consult this handy list from the Academy.

Will there be a preshow?

Yes! In fact, there will be two. First, you’ll able to judge everyone’s red-carpet outfits from 1 to 4 p.m. on ABC. Hosted by Linsey Davis and Whit Johnson, On the Red Carpet Live: Countdown to Oscars 95 will feature interviews with nominees and also stream on ABC News Live’s website starting from 1:30 p.m. ET up until the ceremony starts.

Meanwhile, Vanessa Hudgens, Lilly Singh, and Ashley Graham will host the official Countdown to the Oscars lead-in show, which will air at 6:30 p.m. ET on ABC. This preshow will spotlight various Oscar nominees, performers and presenters, with backstage assistance from TikToker Reece Feldman.

Who’s hosting the ceremony?

Since a post-slap Chris Rock turned the Academy down, Jimmy Kimmel will host for the third time. A newly formed crisis team will be on deck in case of any live mislaps- er, mishaps. White Cherry Entertainment’s Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss will produce the show, with Weiss serving as director for the eighth year in a row. Given that the full categories have been reinstated, we expect that the telecast will last a little longer. Hopefully Kimmel won’t get too tired flying the Oscars plane — we wouldn’t want him to make lying down during awards shows into a habit.

The mission: The Oscars. The host: me? Yes, me.
 #Oscars95 @TheAcademy #JonHamm @ChasParnell @BillyCrystal pic.twitter.com/PHIgGdVLs0

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 14, 2023

Who will present the awards?

MC and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose will take the stage to debut her long-awaited follow-up to the BAFTAs rap, probably (teaser: “Paul Mescal / Made us hurt after all”), and dole out awards alongside fellow winners Riz Ahmed, Jennifer Connelly, Troy Kotsur, and Questlove. Oscar nominees Glenn Close, Samuel L. Jackson, and Melissa McCarthy are confirmed presenters. Meanwhile, Creed III’s anime-inspired director and star Michael B. Jordan will appear, together with co-star Jonathan Majors, Emily Blunt, Dwayne Johnson, Janelle Monáe, and Zoë Saldaña. But wait, there’s more! John Wick 4’s Donnie Yen and Hindi star Deepika Padukone will also present awards.

Who’s performing?

Another thing returning to the stage is … [*dramatic music*] … Rihanna. The cosmetics CEO and Super Bowl LVII halftime performer will perform her Oscars-nominated song “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at the ceremony, showrunners announced on February 23. It’s her first Oscar nomination, and, more importantly, her second performance in the same 30-day period after a seven-year hiatus. Her Academy Award is pending, but her fans have already gotten a win. Producers will announce the remaining slate of performers in the coming weeks.

This post has been updated.

Sources

Variety

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