Vanessa Hudgens and Julianne Hough are set to host The Oscars Red Carpet Show, ABC’s official lead-in to the 96th Oscars on Sunday, March 10, airing at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. This marks Hudgens’ third consecutive year hosting the pre-show, and Hough’s inaugural year. The 30-minute special, executive produced by David Chamberlin, will highlight Oscar nominees, performers and presenters and red-carpet arrivals.
Leading into the official pre-show, ABC News will cover Hollywood’s biggest night with a live Oscars pre-show, Countdown to Oscars: On the Red Carpet Live!, from 1 to 4 p.m. ET/10 a.m. to 1 p.m. PT. The pre-show coverage will also stream on ABC News Live, beginning at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT, and continuing throughout the day until the start of the Oscars ceremony. ABC News Live Prime anchor and World News Tonight weekend anchor Linsey Davis and Good Morning America weekend co-anchor and World News Tonight weekend anchor Whit Johnson will host live from the red carpet at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
The show will include previews of the awards show, live interviews with nominees and presenters, and an exclusive preview of the Governors Ball afterparty. Joining Davis and Johnson, and making their Oscar reporting debut, will be GMA3: What You Need to Know co-anchors Eva Pilgrim and DeMarco Morgan, along with veteran ABC News correspondent Chris Connelly, ABC News contributors Kelley Carter and Mike Muse, Variety’s senior awards editor Clayton Davis and celebrity stylist Joe Zee.
After the Oscars, co-hosted by Live co-hosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, will air live from the Dolby Theatre the following morning at 9 a.m. ET, and will feature the night’s biggest winners captured at the moment they walked offstage. The show will feature Sebastian Maniscalco, a musical performance by Andy Grammer, Elaine Welteroth and Jesse Palmer as the Live red carpet correspondent.
Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 96th Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast to outlets worldwide at the new, earlier time of 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The show will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
