Brolin, Swank To Present At Oscars; Meet the Oscars Grand Central Ribbon Cutting with Whoopi Goldberg

Academy Award®-winning actress Hilary Swank and Josh Brolin will be presenters for the 83rd Academy Awards®, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today.

Swank has twice been nominated and won in both instances. She took home the Oscar in 1999 for her lead performance in “Boys Don’t Cry” and received her second Academy Award in 2004 for her leading role in “Million Dollar Baby.” Swank is currently producing “Something Borrowed” and will be seen next in “New Year’s Eve.” Her other film credits include “The Affair of the Necklace,” “The Black Dahlia,” “Freedom Writers,” “P.S. I Love You,” “Amelia” and “Conviction.”

Brolin, who received a nomination in 2008 for his supporting performance in “Milk,” can currently be seen in the Best Picture nominee “True Grit.” His other film credits include “No Country for Old Men,” “American Gangster,” “W.,” “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” and “Flirting with Disaster.”

Oscar® fans in New York can be first in line to see the actual Oscar statuettes that will be presented to the Best Actor and Best Actress winners at the 83rd Academy Awards® on Sunday, February 27.  The statuettes will be part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Meet the Oscars, Grand Central” at Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Terminal. The exhibition will open TOMORROW, Wednesday, February 23, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg.

Public viewing hours are 1–7 p.m. on February 23, and 7–7 p.m. through Sunday, February 27.  Admission is free.

“Meet the Oscars, Grand Central” will give movie fans the opportunity to have their picture taken holding an actual Oscar statuette.  In addition, the exhibition will feature a display of Oscars in various stages of completion, as manufactured by R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago.  The Best Picture Oscar awarded to Billy Wilder for “The Apartment” (1960) will also be on view.

On Friday, February 25, the statuettes designated for this year’s Best Actor and Best Actress will make their way back to Hollywood where they will be reunited with the rest of the Oscars to be presented on Oscar Night®.

Visitors who “check-in” at “Meet the Oscars, Grand Central” via the Foursquare app on their cell phone and show the screen to a “Meet the Oscars” staffer will receive a limited edition 83rd Academy Awards Poster Collection 83rd Academy Awards poster.  Guests who tweet their “Meet the Oscars” photo along with the hashtag #Oscars to @TheAcademy will be entered to win an official Oscar t-shirt.

Oscar fans in New York can also visit the “Oscars Red Carpet Experience” at 1333 Broadway to take pictures with a virtual Oscar.  For more information, visit http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/red-carpet-experience.html.

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