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Tonight the 2014 Oscars will be flexing its muscles but staying well clear of spandex, as the ceremony will have a stylish superheroes theme.

Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, famous for Chicago and The Bucket List, are onto their second Oscars ceremony and have built the 86th show around the theme of superheroes.

One of the centrepieces of the show will be when Amazing Spiderman star Andrew Garfield takes to the stage, with Meron telling Entertainment Weekly: "He is going to induct a new superhero into the fraternity of superheroes."

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The Producers wouldn't be drawn into saying anything else about the segment, but all indications point to this show-stopping moment being a real life good guy moment.

The superhero theme spans the entire ceremony with the Oscars show divided into sections that celebrate different types of film heroism - expect everything from the good-guys of animation to inspirational real-life heroes like Captain Phillips.

Even the 75th anniversary celebration of 1939's The Wizard of Oz fits into the hero theme, with Meron saying: "Dorothy is the ultimate hero. She saves Oz!"

What would a night of celebrating superheroes be if there weren't some heroines thrown into the mix?

Well the Hollywood big-shots have managed to get Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, to present an award.

The notorious recluse will turn up on stage to present an award, and even her guest appearance fits in with the theme, with Meron describing her as "the ultimate Hitchcock heroine".

The planning for this heroic outing of the Academy Awards extended to the producers' choice of host, and while Ellen DeGeneres might lack super powers, she fits right in with the superhero theme.

With Zadan saying: “The whole heroes theme works beautifully with Ellen as host because what she does so well is compassionate comedy.

"We felt that the whole theme fell into who she is as a person.”

And if you thought it would be impossible to squeeze any more superhero connections into the ceremony, even some of the nominees match this year's Oscars theme - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Iron Man 3 are all nominated for awards tomorrow night.

The 2014 Oscars will take place on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood - find out how to watch in the UK by clicking here.

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