Meet the Oscars!

This year's Academy Awards statuettes have been unveiled, and ET was in Chicago with filmmaker Harold Ramis and in New York with Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden for the ribbon-cutting event!

"It's a process that has great lore behind it," says Marcia, who was joined by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak for "Meet the Oscar." "[This] wonderful Oscar exhibit allows the public to come in and get to know a little more about the Academy and about the Oscar itself."

For the first time ever, the public can see the actual Oscar statuette to be presented to the Best Actress winner at the 82nd Academy Awards, plus the miniature Oscar awarded to Judy Garland for her performance as a screen juvenile in 1939 and a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award of Merit Oscar awarded to the Eastman Kodak Company. In addition, a series of Oscar statuettes in various stages of completion is on view -- and visitors can hold an Oscar and take a picture with one!

New Yorkers can also watch the big show on March 7 at Lincoln Center! Tickets for the Oscar Night viewing are available now at the Alice Tully Hall box office, by calling Centercharge at 212-721-6500 or online at LincolnCenter.org.

Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center will also hold an Oscar Night viewing event, and ET was there as the Academy opened another "Meet the Oscar" exhibit.

'Ghostbusters' star and 'Groundhog Day' director Harold Ramis talked about this year's Oscar co-hosts, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, telling ET, "They'll be great. They have the right attitude. It's always a tough job because you know the people in the audience just want to get to the awards, and the audience at home just wants to be entertained -- it's really a fine line you walk. I've talked to Billy Crystal about it at length -- I got to do two movies with Billy -- and he prepared for months and months just to make sure it was going to be funny. Then during the show they have a staff of writers backstage who are responding to what's actually going on so they can shoot him new jokes that are totally in the moment, appropriate to whatever just happened."

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