How Do They Choose Presenters at Oscars Every Year? Is There A Criteria One Has to Meet?

Published 02/27/2025, 1:43 AM EST

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With anticipation of the 2025 Academy Awards tipping over the pot, the dates terribly close, it is of basic sense to have ones' doubts and nuances about the accolade show cleared up. Things like who lifts the curtains, who are the fill-ins that get to attend the awards, crucial information about who was the one who accidently tipped over the luncheon cake and of course, how is one chosen to present the awards to the awardees, every year?

With several theories and a few realities based of off common-sense, we do not have nothing to feed off of in terms of speculating the criteria to be fulfilled to pass as a decent presenter (if its a competition, that is (it is)). 

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The Oscars presentation as an act that could be granted after an assessment, had been dug in enough to let one have an idea that it stands as a mixture of few necessary things, one being; traditions, where it is said for the awardees of a particular category would be the ones handing over the award to their successor the next year, sprinkled in with a few nominees of the year as well, two being one's stature in the industry in regards to star power and Box Office Success, and three and the most eye-raising: relationships and coincidences that could not be escaped.

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One might not think much of who the presenters had been in any year, but the odd coincidence of  Martin Scorsese being presented the Best Director Award of 2007 by none other than Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg, who had been part of the five most accomplished filmmakers having lead the film movement that shifted the matrix on which Hollywood stood in the 1970's and 80's; will never be left out by a spectator with a keen eye, one that will look for answers. 

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With the speculations for who gets to present every year at the Oscars a little more clear until proven otherwise, there also seems to be a good selection of worthy nominations to look forward to this year, as every, as well. From eye-openers to tear-jerkers, either, and more of which is not much bearable by the human race. 

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From a plethora of categories to choose from, the Oscar nominations might as well be a television and cinema catalogue, with the best and most worth-while already having been handpicked for one to watch. From Best Picture, to Actor, to Supporting Actor, to Netfix Originals and even the honoring of under forty minute of Best Short Films, knot a lot is left out by the Awards specializing in the accolading of filmmaking. Its prestige proved to an even greater extent, even if the influx of categories may seen unnecessary to some. 

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With the nuances of the mechanism a little more cleared out, the audience can be expected to keep an eye out for who is going to be standing up in invitation to the awardees this show and what their Hollywood background maybe. Keeping their eye peeled to scan as soon as someone so much so as ghosts by the stage. 

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Have you noticed any of the coincidence listed in the criteria for an Oscars presenter on the stage? Let us know in the comments below!

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Adiba Nizami

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