87th Annual Academy Awards start on 23 Feb 6.00am on HBO

*Neil Patrick Harris

 

Live Nominee Announcement of The 87TH Annual Academy Awards on HBO

Close to 100 Academy Award winning and nominated blockbusters on HBO this February

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HBO, the new home of the Oscars®, will be bringing the complete Oscars®experience to audiences across Asia, from the live broadcast of various Academy Award®programmes to showing nearly 100 Oscars® winning and nominated blockbusters across HBO Asia’s channels in February.

 

This year, for the first time in Academy history, all nominees across 24 categories will be announced. Chris Pine (Star Trek and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit) and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs will present nominations in 13 categories including Best Picture, while directors Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity and Children of Men) and J.J. Abrams (Star Trek Into Darknessand Star Wars: The Force Awakens) will present special early announcement of 11 categories.On the day of the biggest awards show in the world, three different Oscars® programmes will be broadcast back-to-back live on HBO from 6am on February 23 – On The Red Carpet - The Arrivals, Oscars® Red Carpet Live, and The 87th Annual Academy Awards®. The post-awards show On The Red Carpet – The Winners will premiere the following day at 9pm on HBO. To complete the Oscars® experience, HBO Asia has lined up a slew of Academy Award® winning and nominated movies in the month of February, including the Asian TV premiere of Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix on February 14 and All Is Lost, starring Robert Redford on February 7, both premiering at 9pm on HBO.Other Oscars® acclaimed titles on HBO in February include American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Gravity, The Great Gatsby and notable Best Picture winners, including Argo, American Beauty and Forrest Gump. Catch this unprecedented Oscars® bonanza across HBO Asia’s channels -HBO (nowTV; Channel 115), HBO SIGNATURE (nowTV; Channel 114), HBO HITS (nowTV; Channel 111), HBO FAMILY (nowTV; Channel 112) and CINEMAX (nowTV; Channel 116). Please refer to the attached for the full list of Academy Award® winning and nominated movies and go to www.hboasia.com for more show times.

 

The complete programme schedule of the 87th Annual Academy Awards programmes:

Date Time Oscars® Programmes Channel

23 Feb 6.00am On The Red Carpet – The Arrivals Live HBO

23 Feb 8.00am Oscars® Red Carpet 2015 Live HBO

23 Feb 9.30am The 87th Annual Academy Awards® Live HBO

23 Feb 7.30pm Oscars® Red Carpet 2015

23 Feb 9.00pm The 87th Annual Academy Awards® Primetime

24 Feb 9.00pm On The Red Carpet – The Winners Premiere HBO

* Encores of the complete Oscars® experience will be available with subtitles from 23 February

till 8 March 2015 on HBO (nowTV; Channel 115), as well as on HBO SIGNATURE (nowTV;

Channel 114), HBO ON DEMAND and HBO GO.

 

About HBO ASIA

Singapore-based HBO Asia brings the best of Hollywood to Asia first through its exclusive

licensing deals with major Hollywood and independent studios including Paramount Pictures,

Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate. HBO Asia has proprietary and

award-winning HBO and HBO Asia Original programmes that are produced exclusively for HBO

viewers. Wholly owned by HBO (a Time Warner company), HBO Asia reaches 23 territories

across Asia and offers a bouquet of channels and services including 24-hour commercial-free

subscription movie channels in standard-definition and high-definition – HBO, HBO SIGNATURE,

HBO FAMILY, HBO HITS, CINEMAX and RED – as well as HBO GO and HBO ON DEMAND.

HBO Asia is also the exclusive distributor of BabyFirst in Asia. Log on to www.hboasia.com for

more information.

* Bahasa Indonesia subtitles available in Indonesia. Chinese subtitles available in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

For the first time in Oscars® history, exclusive backstage interviews of winners will be available on hboasia.com during the awards ceremony. Please refer to the attached documents for more information.

Follow @HBOAsia for updates of the Oscars. Join the Oscars conversation: #Oscars #HBOAsia

Watch trailer: HBO Asia - The Complete Oscars Experience

 

*Neil Meron, Neil Patrick Harris, Craig Zadan (from left)