Riz Ahmed, first Pakistani actor to announce Oscars nominations

• Riz Ahmed will make history by announcing Oscars nominations.
• For this historic occasion, he will collaborate with M3GAN’s Allison Williams.
• The announcement will be made at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT on Tuesday.

Riz Ahmed will make history next week when he announces the Oscar nominations for the first time as an actor of Pakistani heritage.

For this historic occasion, he will collaborate with M3GAN star Allison Williams.

The announcement will be made at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT on Tuesday from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater of the Academy and will be broadcast live on ABC’s Good Morning America, the ABC morning programme announced Wednesday.

Along with GoodMorningAmerica.com, ABC News Live, Disney+, Oscars.org, Oscar.com, and the Academy’s social media channels including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, it will also be streamed live on these websites.

The Long Goodbye, a highly praised live-action short film that Ahmed co-wrote with Aneil Karia, earned him his first Oscar last year. He had previously received a nomination for Sound of Metal. Other works include Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the Emmy-winning miniseries The Night Of.

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He revealed earlier this week that he had joined Joyland, Pakistan’s Oscar entry, as an executive producer. He expressed his delight over the collaboration on Instagram. “Being a part of Joyland makes us at Left Handed Films extremely proud. Go left is our adage, and Saim Sadiq’s original movie does just that “the Emmy Award-winning actor wrote.

“Joyland is ground-breaking. And it’s easy to get lost in all the ways that it is; the first Pakistani film at Cannes, the first award-winner, the first to be Oscar-shortlisted, and a queer love story that has overcome multiple obstacles to its release,” said In a statement to Variety announcing the agreement, Ahmed was joined by Left Handed Films executive Allie Moore.

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