The 94th Academy Awards could also be touchdown Beyoncé. The star, who’s nominated at this 12 months’s Oscars within the best-original-song class, alongside Dixson, for “Be Alive” from King Richard, could also be performing it through the telecast, Selection studies.
Beyoncé’s group is reportedly “in deep talks with producers” about performing her nominated observe nearly from tennis courts in Compton, California—the very place the place King Richard topics Venus and Serena Williams started enjoying. In accordance with Selection’s sources, she may probably open the present, and one state of affairs entails a reside introduction from the movie’s best-actor nominee, Will Smith, who would then presumably head to the Dolby Theatre.
Though that is Beyoncé’s first Oscar nomination, it wouldn’t be her first efficiency on the awards present. In 2005, she sang numerous best-original-song nominees reside, together with “Study to Be Lonely” from The Phantom of the Opera. Two years later, she carried out a medley of songs from Dreamgirls alongside her costars Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, and Keith Robinson. And 2009 featured an ode to film musicals with Beyoncé and host Hugh Jackman.
Performances and presenters for this 12 months’s Oscars, which will probably be cohosted by Amy Schumer, Regina Corridor, and Wanda Sykes, and produced by Will Packer with Shayla Cowan, are trickling in. Oscars 2022 presenters run the gamut from Woman Gaga and Samuel L. Jackson to Tony Hawk and Shaun White. The Academy has already introduced a “We Don’t Discuss About Bruno” efficiency and tributes to The Godfather and James Bond, as each franchises rejoice anniversaries. Confirmed Oscars 2022 performers embrace Adam Blackstone, Travis Barker, and Sheila E.
Producers haven’t confirmed whether or not any of the 12 months’s original-song nominees will probably be carried out reside. Beyoncé and Dixson’s King Richard tune is nominated alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Dos Oruguitas,” from Encanto, sung by Sebastián Yatra; Van Morrison’s “All the way down to Pleasure,” from Belfast; Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell’s “No Time to Die,” from No Time to Die; and Diane Warren’s “By some means You Do,” from 4 Good Days, sung by Reba McEntire.
The 2022 Oscars will air reside from the Dolby Theatre on ABC on March 27 at 8 p.m. E.T./5 p.m. P.T. As beforehand reported by The New York Occasions, the present would require all attendees within the viewers to point out proof of vaccination and no less than two destructive PCR exams. Performers and presenters, nonetheless, will reportedly solely have to endure testing earlier than taking part within the present.
As for Beyoncé’s Oscars participation, each trade and L.A. metropolis authorities insiders informed Selection that she “would abandon the idea completely if any of her plans had been to be revealed.” However this can be a feeling with which Oscars producer Will Packer has change into all too acquainted. As he just lately informed Vainness Truthful’s Rebecca Ford, “This factor leaks just like the Trump White Home.”
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