The 2024 Oscars won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), the first time the Oscars have won a primetime program Emmy since 1991, so it's no surprise that the creative team behind this show will remain at large degree in her place for the 2025 Oscars. The event will be broadcast live from the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood on ABC and broadcast worldwide on Sunday, March 2 at 7 p.m. ET.
Raj Kapoor is set to return as executive producer and showrunner of the 2025 Oscars, with Katy Mullan as executive producer and Hamish Hamilton as director. It's Kapoor and Mullan's second time executive producing and Hamilton's fifth time directing the Oscars. Kapoor and Mullan were among the recipients of that Emmy win for Outstanding Variety (Live). Hamish also won for directing the show, but in a separate category, outstanding direction for a variety of specials.
Michael Bearden, musical director, keyboardist, arranger, conductor and composer, joins the creative team as musical director for the first time. Rickey Minor was the musical director last year and won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction for his work on the show. Bearden has worked with artists such as Whitney Houston, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson (as the last musical director of the King of Pop).
Bearden received Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Musical Direction for the Super Bowl LI Halftime Show with Lady Gaga (2017) and One Last Time: An Evening With Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga (2022). He has served as musical director for the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Grammy Awards, The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and as musician and arranger for numerous Kennedy Center Honors and Oscars performances. Bearden's feature film scores include; Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only, Outlaw Johnny Black, Michael Jackson's This Is It, American Blackout and Constellation.
Kapoor has won two Primetime Emmys. In addition to the 2024 Oscars, he won as an executive producer Adele: One Night Onlywhich won outstanding special variety (pre-recorded) in 2022. Kapoor has also been nominated for an Emmy for his work on four Grammy telecasts, another Oscar telecast, and Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter.
Kapoor's other credits include the ACM Awards, Latin Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, and Closing Ceremony of the Paris LA28 Olympic Games.
Mullan is executive producer, showrunner and partner at global live event production company Done + Dusted. Her work in live entertainment ranges from producing the London Olympics to the opening and closing ceremonies The Little Mermaid Live!. Mullan's recent credits include; Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, Step Into…the Movies and the Disney Family Singalong privilege.
Hamilton made his Oscar debut by directing the 82nd Academy Awards telecast in 2010. In addition to the 2024 Oscars, he also won an Emmy (along with Jay-Z) for co-directing the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show starring Rihanna. Hamilton has directed numerous other live television events, including the Emmy Awards, the Grammy Awards, 15 Super Bowl halftime shows and the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics. Hamilton has received 13 Primetime Emmy nominations, a BAFTA Award, a Peabody Award and a Grammy Award for Special Music Robbie Williams – Live at the Albert. He is the founder of Done + Dusted.
Production designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley, who also won an Emmy for their work at the 2024 Oscars in the category of outstanding production design for a variety show, will also return, as will red carpet executive producer David Chamberlin. The official live red carpet show airs at 6:30 p.m. ET.
The host of the 2025 Oscars has not yet been nominated. Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 2024 show.
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