HBO Asia rolls out Hollywood’s red carpet as Oscar season begins
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 23 January 2017

Paving the way for the full glitz of the Oscars ceremony on 27 February 2017, the nominations for the 89th Academy Awards will be aired live on the HBO Asia pay-TV network on 24 January,

Oscar-winning and nominated Academy members including Jennifer Hudson, Brie Larson, Emmanuel Lubezki, Jason Reitman and Ken Watanabe will join Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs to reveal the 24 award categories at the 89th Oscars Nominations on 24 January. The action will be available to subscribers on both HBO and HBO Go across Asia at 9.18pm (Singapore time).

Then, on 27 February (at 9.30am Singapore time), talk show host, producer and comedian Jimmy Kimmel (pictured) will host the 89th Academy Awards from the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Centre. Ahead of the ceremony, HBO Asia will broadcast the Oscars Red Carpet ‘Live’ (from 8am). Both programmes will be repeated on HBO Asia that evening.

To get viewers in the mood, HBO will add a host of previous Oscar-winning movies to its programming schedule starting 24 January. These include the Argo, Inglourious Basterds, Big Hero 6, A Girl In the River: The Price of Forgiveness, The Danish Girl (except in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia), Dreamgirls, Shrek, American Sniper, and Mad Max: Fury Road.