An up-and-coming Connecticut comedic actress who has had a very impressive string of television and film will join "Saturday Night Live" star Bowen Yang to announce this year's Academy Award nominees this week.

Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang will announce the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards. The two actors will come together on Thursday for a live presentation from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater to reveal the nominees in all 23 Academy Award categories.

Jason Reitman’s dramedy about the behind-the-scenes shenanigans that went on before the American comedy show’s first broadcast is contrived

There was a time when Saturday Night Live was not only funny, but even cutting-edge. NBC’s late-night sketch show has been a nursery for major comedic stars such as Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase and the great John Belushi – all of whom are portrayed in this lively biopic of the show’s chaotic 1975 opening night.

“ Emilia Pérez ” leads the Oscar nods with 13 nominations, followed by “Wicked” and “The Brutalist” with 10 each. “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón made history in the Best Actress category, becoming the first openly trans performer to earn a nomination.

Saturday Night recounts the true, although dramatized, story of the October 11, 1975 premiere of the now-renowned live comedy sketch show, Saturday Night Live, created by Lorne Michaels (who is played by Gabriel LaBelle in the movie).

Not yet thirty, and Rachel Sennott, actress and comedian, already has given powerful performances in a number of comedy/dramas. I recently watched Shiva Baby and I Used to Be Funny, both available for streaming on various sites.

An up-and-coming Connecticut comedic actress who has had a very impressive string of television and film will join "Saturday Night Live" star Bowen Yang to announce this year's Academy Award nominees this week.

Rachel Sennott and Bowen ... in all 23 Academy Award categories. Sennott is an actor, writer and comedian known for her roles in the films "Saturday Night," "Shiva Baby," "Bodies Bodies Bodies ...

The announcement will take place on Thursday in a live presentation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater

21 (UPI) --Comedian Bowen Yang and actress Rachel Sennott are set ... recently portrayed J.D. Vance in the Saturday Night Live Election Special, while Sennott appeared in Bottoms in August.

It ain’t live, but Saturday Night (now streaming on Netflix, in addition to VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) is a live wire, a sort-of real-time tick-tock dramatization of the countdown to the first-ever episode of Saturday Night in 1975 (trivia: it wasn’t officially named Saturday Night Live until a year later).