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Los Angeles — Lady Gaga. Jennifer Hudson. Common and John Legend. Adam Levine. Rita Ora. Tegan & Sara. Tim McGraw.
This isn't the lineup for an upcoming pop concert, but rather for Sunday's Academy Awards.
"We want to entertain," said Neil Meron, producing his third consecutive Oscar ceremony with Craig Zadan. "And there's no better entertainment than to do it with music."
Host Neil Patrick Harris will open the show with a musical number, the producers said: an original song by the Oscar-winning writers behind Let It Go. Called Moving Pictures, the song will set a "subliminal theme" for the evening, Meron said.
"It really is celebratory about movies and yet it's kind of cheeky in a way," he said. "But yet it has a beautiful musical motif which... we integrate throughout the show as kind of a call-back theme."
Added Zadan: "We didn't want to do a musical number that could have been on the Tonys, or anywhere else for that matter."
