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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

The Connecticut-born Sennott, 29, studied at NYU and has ... Yang, meanwhile, is a Saturday Night Live star of the modern era. Born in Brisbane, Australia, he moved with his family to Montreal ...

Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang will announce the nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards, as per The Hollywood Reporter.

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.

After a slight postponement, Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott will announce the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards on Thursday

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Comedian Bowen Yang and actress Rachel Sennott are set to share the Oscar nominations on Thursday. In a social media post Tuesday, The Academy shared that the pair will announce Oscar nominations at 8:30 a.m. EST.