Film Music Reporter

Academy Awards producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss today announced today that Rickey Minor was selected as music director for this year’s 91st Oscars. He is making his debut as the music director and follows such composers as Bill Conti, Marc Shaiman, William Ross and Harold Wheeler who served  in the role in previous years. Minor is seven-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Music Direction and the award in 2017 for Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America. He is also known as the musical director and bandleader on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 2010-2014. The 91st Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.