{"id":315147,"date":"2026-03-06T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315147\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:14:09","slug":"anne-hathaway-paul-mescal-and-more-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315147\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway, Paul Mescal and More Added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRobert Downey Jr., <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/anne-hathaway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_anne-hathaway\" data-tag=\"anne-hathaway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Hathaway<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/paul-mescal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-mescal\" data-tag=\"paul-mescal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Mescal<\/a>, Will Arnett, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Gwyneth Paltrow are set to present trophies at the 98th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Raj Kapoor, the show\u2019s executive producer and showrunner, and Katy Mullan, an executive producer, announced the group as the third official round of presenters to join the upcoming ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Previously announced <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/oscars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oscars\" data-tag=\"oscars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscars<\/a> presenters include Adrien Brody, Javier Bardem, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Chase Infiniti, Mikey Madison, Demi Moore, Kumail Nanjiani, Maya Rudolph and Zoe Salda\u00f1a.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlthough Mescal and Infiniti are not individually nominated for their respective appearances in \u201cHamnet\u201d and \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d both films have been recognized by the Academy; \u201cHamnet\u201d received eight nominations and \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d received 13.<\/p>\n<p>Brody, Culkin, Madison and Salda\u00f1a return to the stage as last year\u2019s Oscar acting winners and will honor a new crop of victors, although the Academy has not yet confirmed which categories they will present.<\/p>\n<p>The producers will continue to announce talent joining the show in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s nominations are led by Ryan Coogler\u2019s record-breaking vampire film, \u201cSinners,\u201d which garnered an all-time high of 16 nominations. Following close behind is \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, with a total of 13 nods. Both films are nominated for best picture alongside \u201cBugonia,\u201d \u201cF1,\u201d \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d \u201cHamnet,\u201d \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d \u201cThe Secret Agent,\u201d \u201cSentimental Value\u201d and \u201cTrain Dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Conan O\u2019Brien, the 98th Academy Awards will air live on ABC and stream live on <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulu.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cajacob%40variety.com%7C215afc63d4ee499ef28308de7ade9071%7Ce950f25546e44144a778a6ff4f557492%7C0%7C0%7C639083293534223402%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jLS9AC8hWahjuDzHe%2Fbbo6T5nbec8rhZCrMLSxIbckg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hulu<\/a> on Sunday, March 15, at 7:00 p.m. ET\/4:00 p.m. PT, with the official live red-carpet show airing at 6:30 p.m. ET\/3:30 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway, Paul Mescal, Will Arnett, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Gwyneth Paltrow are set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[69537,430,156,111,139,69,2584,467],"class_list":{"0":"post-315147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-anne-hathaway","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-oscars","15":"tag-paul-mescal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}