Jennifer Lawrence and Jodie Foster will present the award for Best Actress at this Sunday’s Academy Awards.
The two former Best Actress winners have been recruited to step in for Casey Affleck, who abdicated himself of the responsibility earlier this year as Hollywood’s awards season came under the pressure of the #MeToo movement. TheWrap confirmed the news after Variety broke it.
Tradition dictates the previous year’s Best Actor winner present the award for Best Actress at the Oscars, and vice versa. But the “Manchester By the Sea” star faced heavy scrutiny last year when a sexual harassment lawsuit from 2010 was resurfaced in the heat of the campaign — scrutiny which only intensified following the revelations about Harvey Weinstein and the subsequent sea-change in Hollywood regarding sexual harassment and assault.