Rickey Minor will return as music director of the 2024 Oscars, which will air live on ABC on Sunday, March 10, at the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood. Minor also served as music director last year.
Minor has received 15 Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Musical Direction, winning twice. He has been nominated three times for his work at the Oscars, three times for The Kennedy Center Prices, twice for the Grammy Awards and twice for special “Grammy Salutes” to the Bee Gees and Aretha Franklin. It has also been recommended for the following special offers: Genius: A Night for Ray Charles, An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Chaka Khan, Smithsonian Salutes Ray Charles: In Performance at the White House, Take the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America and Celebrating America – An Inauguration Night Special .
The Oscars are executive produced and hosted by Raj Kapoor, who has been associated with the Oscars telecast for seven years. Kapoor has been one of three executive producers (along with Ben Winston and Jesse Collins) of the Grammy Awards for the past three years. Kapoor won his first Primetime Emmy two years ago as an executive producer Adele: One Night Onlywhich won as outstanding variety (pre-recorded).
The Oscars are directed by Hamish Hamilton, who has directed the Grammys three of the last four years. Hamilton won his first Primetime Emmy last month when he won outstanding direction for a variety special (along with Jay-Z) for The Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show Starring Rihanna.
Kapoor and fellow executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan also announced other key members of their production team for the 96th Academy Awards, which Jimmy Kimmel is hosting for the fourth time.
Rob Paine returns as co-executive producer and Taryn Hurd returns as talent producer. Producers Sarah Levine Hall, Erin Irwin and Jennifer Sharron and lighting designers Bob Dickinson and Noah Mitz also return to the team. The team also includes production designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley.
The Academy has announced that there will be 24 (count 'em) writers on this year's Oscars telecast (so the show had better be funny). The writing platoon includes Kimmel, so it probably will.
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