85th Academy Awards: Guide

The 85th Academy Awards take place today Sunday 24 (Monday morning in Africa), broadcast Live across Africa on M-Net Movies Premiere.

Host:
Seth MacFarlane

Venue:
Dolby  Theatre, Los Angeles.

Presenters:
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Jessica Chastain, Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Dujardin, Jane Fonda, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Salma Hayek Pinault, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, Melissa McCarthy, Liam Neeson, Christopher Plummer, Paul Rudd, Octavia Spencer, Kristen Stewart, Meryl Streep, Ted / Mark Wahlberg, John Travolta, Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon.

Performers:
Adele: “Skyfall” from Skyfall
Samantha Barks, Helena Bonham Carter, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Hudson, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Tveit, Catherine Zeta-Jones: Celebration of Musicals of the Last Decade
Dame Shirley Bassey
Kristin Chenoweth
Seth MacFarlane: Closing Number
Norah Jones: “Everybody Needs a Best Friend” from Ted
Barbra Streisand

BROADCAST (all times are WAT):
DStv initially gave the Oscars to Compact viewers and now they’ve been ripped away. The 85th Academy Awards are coming up this weekend and were going to be rebroadcast on M-Net Movies Stars but not anymore.

The awards are airing live on M-Net Movies Premiere in the early hours of Monday morning (25 February 2013) and will be rebroadcast on M-Net and M-Net Movies Premiere on Monday and Tuesday night respectively.

The ceremony was also going to be rebroadcast on M-Net Movies Stars the Saturday afterwards – on 2 March at 5pm – but the broadcast has been dropped days before the event with no explanation.

As a result Compact viewers won’t be seeing the ceremony anymore. Not an Oscar-winning move by the M-Net Movies franchise.

The Oscars coverage is now as follows:

E! live from the Red Carpet at the 2013 Academy Awards!
On: E! Entertainment
Date and time: Sunday, 24 February at 11:30pm
Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic report live from the red carpet, with all the latest gossip and fashion updates.

Live ceremony
On: M-Net Movies Premiere
Date and time: Monday, 25 February at 2:30am (30 minutes later than previously scheduled).
Broadcast begins with a live red carpet countdown starting at 1am.

Delayed broadcast
On: M-Net
Date and time: Monday, 25 February at 7:30pm

Rebroadcast
On: M-Net Movies Premiere
Date and time: Tuesday, 26 February at 7:30pm