Selection’s Clayton Davis Returns to ABC’s Oscar Pre-Display Telecast

Clayton Davis will sign up for ABC’s Oscar pre-show “Countdown to the Academy Awards: At the Purple Carpet Are living” for the fourth consecutive 12 months.

The warmup for filmdom’s large night time will air from 12:30 p.m.-5 p.m. PT on March 2, main in to ABC’s reside telecast of the 97th Academy Awards. Davis will talk about the Oscar race as an unpredictable season closes and be offering a few of his signature predictions. He’ll be stationed at the carpet out of doors the Dolby Theatre along ABC Information’ Linsey Davis, Whit Johnson, Chris Connelly and KABC-TV leisure leader George Pennacchio.

Davis has led movie awards protection for Selection since 2020. He has since expanded his purview to TV and different key leisure sectors. He used to be promoted this month from his earlier function as Senior Awards Editor.

“Clayton has redefined and expanded the scope of our awards protection since he joined us 5 years in the past,” mentioned Selection co-editors in leader Cynthia Littleton and Ramin Setoodeh. “He brings unbelievable power and fervour to his paintings each day. He’s a drive in our newsroom and a beautiful colleague.”

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Davis is widely recognized all the way through the trade for his expansive predictions about award season contenders. He contributes a variety of information and analaysis to Selection‘s print and virtual platforms. He pens Selection‘s “Awards Circuit” column all over movie awards season, and he’s a bunch of Selection‘s “Awards Circuit” podcast. He’s additionally extremely visual at gala’s and trade occasions as a speaker and panel moderator.

“I’m extremely thankful to Cynthia, Ramin, [Variety executive editor] Brent Lang, [Selection CEO} Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, and everybody at Selection for his or her unwavering toughen and self assurance in my occupation. Each day, I proceed to be told and develop along one of the vital maximum proficient other people within the trade,” Davis mentioned. “Some persons are fortunate, after which there’s me. I don’t assume there’s a phrase that really captures how peculiar this adventure has been.”