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Oscars First Round of Presenters Include Al Pacino, Zendaya, Michelle Pfeiffer, Last Year’s Winners

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The Academy Awards show is coming on March 10th on ABC, at 7pm. Yes, 7pm.

The show has to combat a bit of “Oppeneheimer” weariness plus the fact that between the Critics Choice, SAG and even the Golden Globes the audience knows who’s going to win.

Still, the first round of presenters is cool because it includes Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Yeoh and Zendaya.

Yeoh, Curtis, Fraser, and Quan are last year’s winners, so they were expected. Pacino should be giving out Best Picture. I hope they bring on more icons. That’s the lesson we learned from the Grammys.

The Zendaya part of this is smart. Bring her on with Timothee Chalamet. By that time, “Dune” will have been number 1 for 10 days!

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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