The Oscar-winning couple who wrote the song "Let It Go" for Disney's smash-hit "Frozen" will write a music number to be performed by Neil Patrick Harris during the live airing of the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday.

Songwriters Robert Lopez and his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez will pen a "multimedia, musical sequence" for Harris as he hosts the Oscars for the first time on Feb. 22, the Academy said according to CBS News.

"We couldn't be happier to have Kristen and Bobby Lopez write an incredibly special song for Neil Patrick Harris and special guests to perform this year on the Oscar stage," said Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

The Lopezes, who won an Oscar for "Let It Go," jumped at the opportunity to work on the performance, titled "Moving Pictures."

"We love the Oscars and have always been huge Neil Patrick Harris fans, so when he asked us to write him a song for this year's show we said, 'Yes!' before he could finish the sentence," the couple said, CBS News reported.

"We are having so much fun collaborating, and have even enjoyed weaving our experience as Oscar nominees into the song."

Harris presented fans with his own announcement in a video he tweeted Tuesday morning.

 

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