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producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain announced today
that veteran Oscars® director Glenn Weiss will return to direct the 92nd
Oscars. The Oscars will air live Sunday, February 9, on the ABC
Television Network.
“We are so lucky that Glenn is back as our director this year. He is deeply creative and collaborative and has a terrific instinct for live television,” said Howell Taylor and Allain. “It is a huge win to us to have Glenn at the helm.”
“We are so lucky that Glenn is back as our director this year. He is deeply creative and collaborative and has a terrific instinct for live television,” said Howell Taylor and Allain. “It is a huge win to us to have Glenn at the helm.”
Weiss has directed numerous live televised events, including four
previous Oscars shows, for which he won two Primetime Emmys®, and 19
Tony Awards® shows, which earned him three directing Primetime Emmys.
Weiss’s additional directing credits include “The Kennedy Center
Honors,” “Billboard Music Awards,” “BET Awards,” “Peter Pan Live!,”
“Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,”
“Primetime Emmy® Awards,” “Live from Lincoln Center,” “Macy’s 4th of
July Fireworks Spectacular,” “Garth Brooks, Live from Las Vegas” and the
“American Music Awards.”
The 92nd Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 9, 2020, at the
Dolby® Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and
will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 6:30 p.m.
ET/3:30 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than
225 countries and territories worldwide.
