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        Here Are Your Oscar Presenters

        The Nominees Are...

        If it wasn’t for the Oscar presenters, who else would open the golden envelope and entertain us with witty, usually awkward, banter?

        Marina Watts

        Updated Jul. 12, 2017 12:50PM ET / Published Feb. 24, 2014 12:51PM ET 

        Jemal Countess/Getty

        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:

        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

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