The Oscars will have that Broadway touch for a second consecutive year as production designer David Rockwell will return to work behind the scenes at the 82nd Academy Awards.

Oscar telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic made the announcement today, with Shankman saying, "David is so creative and has such a great big-picture approach to set design. I'm beyond excited to be collaborating with him on the Oscars."

Rockwell's set design work includes the Broadway productions of Hairspray, Legally Blonde, The Rocky Horror Show and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, as well as the upcoming theatre productions Catch Me If You Can, Elf and Houdini.

His firm also designed a free-standing building for Cirque du Soleil at Walt Disney World in Florida and dozens of restaurants and several hotels and retail spaces, not to mention the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland complex where the Oscars take place.

The 82nd Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, co-hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin and televised live on ABC.