Paltrow and Berry to present at Oscars

Hollywood stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Halle Berry will join famed director Martin Scorsese in the line-up of presenters at this year's Academy Awards on February 27.

Paltrow won the best actress Oscar for her role in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love and starred in last year's futuristic feature Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Berry became the first black woman to take home the best actress Oscar at the 2002 ceremony for her role as the wife of a death row prisoner in Monster's Ball.

Scorsese is nominated as best director this year for his biopic The Aviator, the life story of eccentric US billionaire Howard Hughes.