This year's Oscars ceremony is two weeks later that usual

Actress Anne Hathaway will help announce the nominees for this year's Oscars next week.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said the 27-year-old will join the organisation's president Tom Sherak to reveal 10 of the 24 awards.

The nominations will be announced at the academy's Beverly Hills headquarters on 2 February.

Hathaway was nominated for an Oscar in 2009 for her leading role in Rachel Getting Married.

However, the star lost out in the best actress category to Kate Winslet, who won the award for The Reader.

Phillips sets out her claims in a memoir entitled High on Arrival

The daughter of John Phillips, leader of 1960s group the Mamas and the Papas, has claimed she had a 10-year sexual relationship with her late father.

Mackenzie Phillips, a former child TV star, alleges the consensual incest - disclosed in her recently published memoir - began in 1979 when she was 19.

Speaking on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she said the relationship was a "betrayal".

Phillips' claims have been disputed by Genevieve Waite, her father's wife at the time of the alleged abuse.