If it wasn’t for the Oscar presenters, who else would open the golden envelope and entertain us with witty, usually awkward, banter?
The goal of the producers of the Academy Awards was to display the “tremendous diversity of stars to represent not only this year’s nominees, but the legacy of the motion picture business as well.”
So, without further ado, here are your presenters, in alphabetical order:
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Amy Adams: nominated for Best Actress: American Hustle; Best Supporting Actress: Doubt, The Fighter, The Master, Junebug
Kristen Bell
Jessica Biel
Jim Carrey
Glenn Close: nominated for Best Actress: Albert Nobbs, Dangerous Liaisons, Fatal Attractions; Best Supporting Actress: The Natural, The Big Chill, The World According to Garp
Bradley Cooper: nominated for Best Actor: Silver Linings Playbook; Best Supporting Actor: American Hustle
Penélope Cruz: winner for Best Supporting Actress: Vicky Christina Barcelona; also nominated: Best Supporting Actress: Nine; Best Actress: Volver
Benedict Cumberbatch
Viola Davis: nominated for Best Actress: The Help; Best Supporting Actress: Doubt
Daniel Day-Lewis: winner for Best Actor: Lincoln, My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood; nominated for Best Actor: In the Name of the Father, Gangs of New York
Robert De Niro: winner for Best Actor: Raging Bull; Best Supporting Actor: The Godfather); nominated for Best Actor: Cape Fear, Awakenings, The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver; Best Supporting Actor: Silver Linings Playbook
Zac Efron
Sally Field: winner for Best Actress: Places in the Heart, Norma Rae; nominated for Best Supporting Actress: Lincoln
Harrison Ford: nominated for Best Actor: Witness
Jamie Foxx: winner for Best Actor: Ray; nominated for Best Supporting Actor: Collateral
Andrew Garfield
Jennifer Garner
Whoopi Goldberg: winner for Best Supporting Actress: Ghost; nominated for Best Actress: The Color Purple
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Anne Hathaway: winner for Best Supporting Actress: Les Miserables; nominated for Best Actress: Rachel Getting Married
Goldie Hawn: winner for Best Supporting Actress: Cactus Flower; nominated for Best Actress: Private Benjamin
Chris Hemsworth
Kate Hudson: nominated for Best Supporting Actress: Almost Famous
Samuel L. Jackson: nominated for Best Supporting Actor: Pulp Fiction
Angelina Jolie: winner for Best Supporting Actress: Girl, Interrupted; nominated for Best Actress: Changeling
Michael B. Jordan
Anna Kendrick: nominated for Best Supporting Actress: Up in the Air
Jennifer Lawrence: winner for Best Actress: Silver Linings Playbook; nominated for Best Actress: Winter’s Bone, Best Supporting Actress: American Hustle
Matthew McConaughey: nominated for Best Actor: Dallas Buyers Club
Ewan McGregor
Bill Murray: nominated for Best Actor: Lost in Translation
Kim Novak
Tyler Perry
Brad Pitt: nominated for Best Picture: Moneyball, 12 Years A Slave, Best Actor: Moneyball, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Best Supporting Actor: 12 Monkeys
Sidney Poitier: winner for Best Actor: Lilies of the Field, Honorary Award; nominated for Best Actor: The Defiant Ones
Gabourey Sidibe: nominated for Best Actress: Precious
Will Smith: nominated for Best Actor: The Pursuit of Happyness, Ali
Kevin Spacey: winner for Best Actor: American Beauty, Best Supporting Actor: The Usual Suspects
Jason Sudeikis
Channing Tatum
Charlize Theron: winner for Best Actress: Monster; nominated for Best Actress: North Country.
John Travolta: nominated for Best Actor: Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Fever
Christoph Waltz: winner for Best Supporting Actor: Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained
Kerry Washington
Emma Watson
Naomi Watts: nominated for Best Actress: 21 Grams, The Impossible
