The Academy plans tribute to the Oscar-winning athlete and has announced additional performers Elton John and Cynthia Erivo

The
Oscars will honour
basketball great Kobe Bryant during the Academy awards ceremony on 9 February. Bryant died on Sunday in a helicopter crash in
California, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others.
Bryant won an Oscar for best animated short film in 2018 for Dear Basketball, adapted from a poem he published in 2015 about his retirement from the sport.