Oscars 2022 To Have A Host After 3 Years; Here Are More Details
Three years after late-night TV discuss present host Jimmy Kimmel emceed the Oscars, the world’s best film awards present will lastly have a face when the occasion airs on March 27 on the American TV community, ABC.
Craig Erwich, President, Hulu Originals & ABC Leisure, in response to ‘Selection’, made this announcement throughout ABC’s phase of the Tv Critics Affiliation digital press tour. However he didn’t elaborate on who it could be. “It could be me,” Erwich quipped, earlier than touting his confidence in Oscars govt producer Will Packer.
“Will actually has his pulse on well-liked tradition and leisure,” Erwich mentioned. “I do know he has loads in retailer and we’ll have extra particulars to share quickly.”
Jimmy Kimmel served because the final host of the Academy Awards, having emceed the ceremony in 2017 and 2018, notes ‘Selection’. Different hosts over the previous decade included Chris Rock (2016), Neil Patrick Harris (2015), Ellen DeGeneres (2014), Seth MacFarlane (2013), Billy Crystal (2012) and James Franco/Anne Hathaway (2011).
The MacFarlane and Franco/Hathaway stints have been seen as a bid by ABC and the Academy to draw a youthful viewers, however critics weren’t impressed.
Being the Oscars host was at one time thought of one of the coveted gigs in Hollywood (significantly within the age of Bob Hope and Johnny Carson), in response to ‘Selection’, however the job turned considered extra thankless within the age of social media and the continuous critiques of whoever is on stage.
The true finish of the road for Oscar host, nevertheless, got here in 2019, when the Academy introduced Kevin Hart within the function. Hart later determined to drop out after the organisation requested him to apologise for years-old homophobic tweets; after that, the 2019 occasion went hostless and really noticed its rankings go up as compared with the earlier yr’s.
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