Oscar Producers Announce Team; Hamish Hamilton To Return As Director

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The group that will be bringing us the 98th Annual Academy Awards is set and loaded for action.

Oscar broadcast executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producer Katy Mullan today announced members of their production team for the ceremony, hosted by Conan O’Brien and airing live on ABC and streamed live on Hulu on Sunday, March 15, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

Rob Paine returns as co-executive producer. Hamish Hamilton as director (fresh off directing Sunday night’s Grammy Awards) , and Taryn Hurd and Sarah Levine Hall rejoin the team as producers.

Writers for this year’s show include Amberia Allen, José Arroyo, Josh Comers, Dan Cronin, Jessie Gaskell, Skyler Higley, Berkley Johnson, Ian Karmel, Brian Kiley, Laurie Kilmartin, Carol Leifer, Todd Levin, Jon Macks, Conan O’Brien, Matt O’Brien, Agathe Panaretos and Mike Sweeney.

Also returning to the show’s production team are music director Michael Bearden, production designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley, lighting designers Bob Dickinson and Noah Mitz and supervising choreographer Mandy Moore.

As previously announced, Jeff Ross and Sweeney also return as producers for a second time.

Kapoor, Mullan, Paine, Hamilton, Hurd, Hall, Buckley, Billingsley and Dickinson have earned Emmy® Awards for their work on the Oscars broadcast.

The big show will again take place at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and and airs live on ABC and Hulu and in more than 200 territories worldwide.

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