LOS ANGELES: Legendary Hollywood movie director and producer Steven Spielberg will join the line-up of Oscar presenters at this month’s awards ceremony.

Spielberg, himself a previous Oscar winner, will join a growing number of stars who signed up to hand out cinema’s highest awards at a glittering ceremony in Hollywood on February 29.

The 57-year movie mogul won best picture and directing Oscars in 1993 for his acclaimed

Nazi drama Schindler’s List, as well as a directing Oscar for Saving Private Ryan in 1998.

In 1986, he was honoured with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences prestigious Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award, which is given to a movie maker for a lifetime of work.

He also won three Oscar nominations for his global blockbusters Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. The Extraterrestrial.

Agence France Presse