Its the Garden State Grammys, the Oscars near the Ocean its the New Jersey Hall of Fame induction ceremony!

Sunday night at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, a new gaggle of great Garden Staters will be heading for Hall immortality, and you catch all the action by playing the YouTube live stream above, starting at 7 p.m.

This years induction class includes:

- George R.R. Martin, renowned author of the Song Of Ice And Fire book series that spawned the mega-popular Game of Thrones TV franchise, who grew up in Bayonne.

- Martha Stewart, the home, garden and culinary mogul and TV personality, who grew up in Nutley.

- Jason Alexander, the actor best-known for playing George Costanza on Seinfeld, who grew up in Livingston.

- Laurie Hernandez, the gold medal-winning Olympic gymnast, who grew up in Old Bridge.

- Jerry Izenberg, longtime Star-Ledger sports columnist, who grew up in Newark

- The Smithereens, the popular rock band from Carteret. Jim Babjak, Mike Mesaros and Dennis Diken will be inducted as well as frontman Pat DiNizio, who died in 2017 at the age of 62.

- Southside Johnny Lyon, the blues-rock stalwart, frontman of the Asbury Jukes and unofficial godfather of the Jersey sound, who grew up in Ocean Grove.

- Peter Benchley, author who wrote Jaws, the 1974 novel that he adapted for the 1975 hit Steven Spielberg film, who lived in Princeton.

The inductees are chosen in part through a public vote, but other factors are involved, including for living nominees whether or not they will be available to attend the induction ceremony.

The honorees are scheduled to attend an induction ceremony at Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park on Oct. 27. Tickets for the induction ceremony will go on sale starting in September. Ticket sales will benefit the upcoming New Jersey Hall of Fame museum, which is being built at the American Dream complex in East Rutherford for a planned opening in 2020. The museum will be the halls first static physical home (a previous mobile museum exhibit was housed in a trailer).

Newark Airports Terminal A is home to the New Jersey Hall of Fame Hologram Time Capsule, a photorealistic holographic experience featuring Steven Van Zandt along with Wyclef Jean, Tommy James, Connie Chung, Mary Higgins Clark and astronaut Mark Kelly. Posters of New Jersey greats also represent the hall at the airport.

NJ Advance Media staff writer Amy Kuperinsky contributed to this report.

Bobby Olivier may be reached at bolivier@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @BobbyOlivier and Facebook. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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