“I grew up in a place called Alcobendas, where this dream was not very realistic.” Thus, Penelope Cruz began his iconic speech upon receiving the Oscar Prize for Best Actress of Delivery for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008). This year another actress of Alcobendas, Karla Sofía Gascón, struggles to achieve this realistic dream, and Cruz will be there to witness it, as one of the presenters who will deliver an award at the Dolby Theater on March 2.
The actress, nominated for three other awards of the Hollywood Film Academy in her career and already tanned in these leaders, was announced on Tuesday as one of the you Whoopi Goldberg presenter, Halle Berry, Elle Fanning (representing the nominee A complete Unknown), John Lithgow (representing Conclave), Amy Poehler, Scarlett Johansson (already in promotion by the new Jurassic World), June Squibb Y Bowen Yang (Wicked).
The four Oscar winning performers were also previously announced in 2024: Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. (both winner for Oppenheimer), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Those who stay) y Emma Stone (Poor creatures). Although at first it was announced that the gala would return to the model of five deliverymen presenting each of the nominees, in the end the academy has announced that this system will not follow for the interpretive category. The gala will be marked, with references or without them, for the future of controversy with Karla Sofía Gascón, nominated but marked by old tweets that have pushed Netflix to cancel her campaign for the US with the movie with the movie Emilia Pérez. The favorite of its category right now is Demi Moore.
Maybe the prize that Cruz can deliver to Emilia Pérez It is one in which she is already tanned: the best international film, where that mythical “and the Oscar Goes to … Pedroooooooooo shouted!” Together with Antonio Banderas upon receiving him Pedro Almodóvar for All about my mother. Cruz also delivered this statuette in 2013, along with Salma Hayek, Michael Haneke, for Amourand in 2020 Bong Joon-ho, for Parasites. In addition, he has delivered an Oscar on three other occasions. In total, six times.
There will also be space in the gala for nominated songs, which include two numbers of the Narcomusical queer Emilia Pérezalthough it is rumored that the show will begin with a tribute to Wicked From the hand the voices of the nominated actresses Cynthia Erito and Ariana Grande, crowning one of the few box office hits present at this year’s ceremony.
Beyond the 97th Oscar ceremony, Penelope Cruz, who could not go to the Goya last Saturday for a flu, is pending the reinvention of Frankenstein in The Brideby Maggie Gyllenhaal, and could start shooting shortly with Johnny Depp Day Drinkerby Marc Webb.