Jeff Margolis will executive produce the red carpet arrivals show "Countdown to the Oscars 2010" for the 2010 Academy Awards, Oscar ceremony producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced. "Countdown to the Oscars" will air on ABC at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, right before the Oscar telecast.
According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' press release, "Margolis is an award-winning producer-director with three decades of experience in crafting more than 100 television events. For 12 years, he has executive produced the 'Screen Actors Guild Awards,' directing the show for the past four. Margolis has been nominated for eight Emmy® Awards, six for directing Academy Awards telecasts; he took the Emmy home in 1995 for his work on the 67th Academy Awards telecast. He also won Directors Guild Awards for helming the 62nd and 65th Academy Awards. His other credits include more than 20 'American Music Awards,' 'Academy of Country Music Awards,' 'Motown 45,' 'CBS… 50 Years from Television City,' 'Michael Jackson One Night Only,' 'Sammy Davis, Jr.’s 60th Anniversary Celebration,' for which he won an Emmy as a co-producer, and 'Richard Pryor Live in Concert.'"
The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 7 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. In the United States, it'll be televised live by ABC.