Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will host the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, honoring the 2004 laureate, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai.
"They really wanted to do it, right from the start," concert organizer Odd Arvid Stroemstad said. "They clearly know what the Nobel concert is and what the Nobel Peace Prize is about."
The Nobel concert will be carried live in more than 100 countries and traditionally draws some of the biggest names in show business. Last year, the event was hosted by Hollywood husband-and-wife Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The 64-year-old Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, became the first African woman to win the coveted peace prize, which was announced Oct. 8.
She was honored as founder of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.