Beyoncé is taking the Oscars stage.
Queen Bey will join Billie Eilish and Finneas, Reba McEntire and Sebastián Yatra in performing their Oscar-nominated songs at Sunday’s Academy Awards (ABC, 8 EDT/5 PDT), show producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan announced Tuesday in a statement.
Beyoncé will perform “Be Alive,” the theme song she wrote (with songwriter Dixson) and sings in “King Richard,” a biopic about Serena and Venus Williams’ dad Richard. Yatra will sing “Dos Oruguitas” from Disney’s “Encanto,” written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Eilish and Finneas will perform the James Bond theme “No Time to Die,” which the sister-and-brother team wrote and performed. McEntire will perform “Somehow You Do,” the song written by Diane Warren for “Four Good Days.”
The fifth Oscar-nominated song, Van Morrison’s “Down to Joy” from “Belfast,” will be not be performed on the broadcast. The academy statement said that Van Morrison “was invited” to perform his nominated song “but will not attend the Oscars due to his tour schedule.”
Serena and Venus Williams, executive producers of the best picture-nominated “King Richard,” will be on the Oscars stage as presenters.
The Williams sisters were announced as part of the final group gracing the Academy Awards stage this Sunday — which includes Josh Brolin, Jacob Elordi, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Momoa, Jill Scott and J.K. Simmons.
Also included on the final list of awards presenters: “West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler, who previously lamented not receiving an invite to the Academy Awards. “See you on Sunday!” Zegler tweeted to fans on Wednesday.
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Lady Gaga, who missed out on a best actress Oscar nomination for her “House of Gucci” role, will be on the Academy Awards stage as a presenter. So will Anthony Hopkins, after missing last year’s Oscars show, when he upset the late Chadwick Boseman for best actor. And so will comedians Tiffany Haddish and Bill Murray.
Haddish, Murray, “Encanto” star Stephanie Beatriz, DJ Khaled, Jennifer Garner, H.E.R., Elliot Page, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, surfer Kelly Slater and snowboarder Shaun White are among the high-profile group of presenters announced last week.
Gaga will be joined by fellow A-listers including Hopkins, Jamie Lee Curtis, Shawn Mendes, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Woody Harrelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Tyler Perry, Tracee Ellis Ross, Daniel Kaluuya, Mila Kunis, Lupita Nyong’o, Naomi Scott, Wesley Snipes, John Travolta, Lily James, John Leguizamo, Simu Liu, Rami Malek, Uma Thurman, Kevin Costner, new Catwoman Zoë Kravitz, Rosie Perez and former Oscar host Chris Rock.