Posted on 10/15/2014 3:33:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Award-winning US stage and screen actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the next Oscars show, organizers announced Wednesday.
The star, who has hosted both Broadway's Tony and TV's Emmy awards shows in the past, will front the 87th Academy Awards on February 22, said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The high-profile hosting job is a prime gig in Hollywood, at the climax of its annual awards season. Harris will follow Ellen DeGeneres last year and a who's who of showbiz over the decades.
"It is truly an honor and a thrill to be asked to host this year's Academy Awards," said the star of 2005's "How I Met Your Mother," in an Academy statement.
"I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show," added Harris, whose latest film "Gone Girl" came out this month in the United States.
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However snarky remarks are most welcome. :)
Two words: Jazz Hands
I guess the hosts have to be gay.
from one homo to another ...just great....then again, I neve watch their crap....
Dude’s a total fruit. But...he’s a talented fruit. Might be interesting.
Well... maybe Doogie will have an answer for Ebola.
So Mr. Harris is a “lover of Broadway musicals” as they say. Whooda thunk it?!?/s
Guess we will skip it again this year.
Diana...that is an great graphic.
(Personally, I think it would be better with Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker, however).
Must see TV? Nope,not in a million years.
Ha!
Well will his Husband be with him??????????????
I gave up on the Oscars many years ago after it ceased being fun and the movies were more Art House types than popular films at the box office.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched the Oscars. A bunch of lefties all telling each other how great they are. Besides, I haven’t forgiven the Academy for robbing Robert Duvall in 1997 of Best Actor. Nicholson (the winner) was pretty good, but Duvall’s performance in The Apostle was in a league of its own.
All that said, eh. Harris is an okay actor and might make a decent host. I’m waiting for them to offer the role to James Woods or Sean Hannity (hoo boy, can you imagine the libtard reaction to that? Ha ha!)
He’ll fit right in with the rest of the Hollywood fags.
(Personally, I think it would be better with Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker, however).
Agreed on both counts. I have been watching some of the old episodes on "Amazon prime." Great stories.
Yep. I think he'll do well.
Now if there were only some films I could get excited about this year.
Harris was a murderer in a Law & Order Criminal Intent episode. Didn’t look like him. Only found out it was him while looking through a roster of cast members fir that episode. He did a good job.
He was cool dressed like a Nazi psychic in Starship Troopers.
Hope Pauly Shore does it next year.
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