Oscars Presenters: Steven Spielberg, America Ferrera, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Anya Taylor-Joy & Others Round Out List – Update

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UPDATED, 10:00 AM: The Academy said today that Emily Blunt, Cynthia Erivo, America Ferrera, Sally Field, Ryan Gosling, Ariana Grande, Ben Kingsley, Melissa McCarthy, Issa Rae, Tim Robbins, Steven Spielberg, Mary Steenburgen, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlize Theron, Christoph Waltz and Forest Whitaker will present at the Oscars on Sunday. See the rest of the envelope openers below.

PREVIOUSLY, February 29: Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate McKinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara, Octavia Spencer and Ramy Youssef have been added to the presenters list for the 96th Oscars.

They join previously announced Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Yeoh and Zendaya.

Producers will continue to announce talent joining the show leading up to the March 10 ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

PREVIOUSLY, February 26: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the first group of presenters for the 96th annual Oscars on March 10. The envelope please…

Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Yeoh and Zendaya will present statuettes on March 10 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

The producers will continue to announce talent joining the show in the coming weeks.

Jimmy Kimmel is returning to host the ceremony for a fourth time he has fronted the show. ABC, which has aired the Oscars since 1976, is televising the show live starting at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT — an hour earlier that usual. The network, which has begun to use the Oscars as a lead-out to showcase its top programming, will follow its coverage of the live ceremony with an original episode of Abbott Elementary.

ABC’s time tweak also means that its annual pre-show will now run for 30 minutes — instead of the usual 90 — beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. As per usual, the main Oscar telecast will be rebroadcast in the Pacific Time zone in primetime after the live presentation.

Raj Kapoor will serve as showrunner and executive producer of the 96th Oscars, with Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan executive producers. Hamish Hamilton is directing.