The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced that three-time Oscar-nominated producer Michael De Luca and Emmy-nominated producer Jennifer Todd will produce the 89th Oscars telecast, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced today.
“We are deeply honored to produce the Academy Awards,” said De Luca and Todd.
De Luca earned Best Picture Oscar nominations for producing Captain Phillips, Moneyball and The Social Network.
A former president of production at Sony Pictures, DreamWorks and New Line Cinema, De Luca is currently producing the last two films of the Fifty Shades trilogy for Universal, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, which will be released in 2017 and 2018, respectively.