Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Kumail Nanjiani To present At The 98th Oscars

By Preeti Chandan

LOS ANGELES, CA – Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Kumail Nanjiani will take the stage as presenters at the 98th Oscars on March 15, along with stellar Hollywood names including Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway, Paul Mescal, Demi Moore, Zoe Saldaña, Adrien Brody, Javier Bardem, and Gwyneth Paltrow, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced.  

The Oscars will be given out in 24 categories at the awards ceremony. 

Chopra and Nanjiani are no strangers to the Oscars, having attended the awards ceremony numerous times.  

For both, this will be their second time as presenters. 

Chopra is returning after a decade, having made her debut as an Oscar presenter at the 88th Academy Awards in 2016. With actor Liev Schreiber, she presented the award for Best Film Editing to Margaret Sixel for ‘Mad Max: Fury Road.’

She and her husband, Nick Jonas, also announced the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021.  

Nanjiani, alongside Lupita Nyong’o, presented the award for Best Production Design to the team of the film ‘The Shape of Water’ at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018.

 He also co-announced the 2019 Oscar nominations with actress Tracee Ellis Ross.

Chopra has established herself in Hollywood over the past decade with key roles in ‘Quantico,’ ‘Baywatch,’ ‘The Matrix Resurrections,’ ‘Citadel,’ and  ‘Bluff.’ She was an executive producer for the 2021 Netflix film ‘The White Tiger,’ which was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 93rd Academy Awards. In 2025, a short film, ‘Anuja,’ which she backed, was nominated for Best Live-Action Short Film. 

Nanjiani, a prolific Pakistani American actor, comedian, podcaster, and screenwriter, is best known for his roles on ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Welcome to Chippendales.’ He co-wrote and starred in the 2017 romantic comedy ‘The Big Sick’ for which he and his wife, Emily V. Gordon, were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.  

The 98th Oscars award ceremony will be held on March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC, streamed live on Hulu and will air live in more than 200 territories worldwide.

This year, Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners,’ a supernatural film set in the 1930s South, leads with 16 nominations, a new record.