In a surprise to no one, the acting winners from the 2024 Oscars are returning to present at the 2025 Academy Awards ceremony. Today, The Academy made it official revealing that Best Actor winner Cillian Murphy, Best Actress winner Emma Stone, Best Supporting Actor winner Robert Downey, Jr., and Best Supporting Actress queen Da’Vine Joy Randolph will all be on hand at the Dolby Theater on March 2. It is not believed any of these winners will present in a “five previous winners” format which was used for the third time during the telecast last year.
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This year’s ceremony will be hosted by Conan O’Brien with executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producer Katy Mullan returning for a second year. The Academy also revealed more of the production team this week including supervising choreographer Mandy Moore, and lighting designers Bob Dickinson and Noah Mitz. Hamish Hamilton will once again direct alongside production designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley, and music director Michael Bearden. All four creatives won individual Emmy Awards for the 2024 telecast.
With Jimmy Kimmel not returning or taking a year off (take your pick), the show will effectively have an entirely new writing staff. The writers responsible for entertaining you during this year’s show are Amberia Allen, José Arroyo, Josh Comers, Dan Cronin, Jessie Gaskell, Skyler Higley, Berkley Johnson, Ian Karmel, Brian Kiley, Laurie Kilmartin, Carol Leifer, Jon Macks, Matt O’Brien, Agathe Panaretos, Mike Sweeney and O’Brien.
Among this year’s returning winners only Stone has a connection to the 2025 telecast. She is a producer for “A Real Pain” which is up for two Oscars including Best Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin), and Original Screenplay (Jesse Eisenberg).
The 97th Academy Awards will air on ABC and stream live on Hulu on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, with the official live red carpet show airing at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.
