I mainly watch Turner Classic Movies, but my wife loves the Hallmark Channels (particularly the Hallmark Mystery movies). I ordered her one of these shirts for Christmas:
Posted on 12/04/2018 5:40:30 PM PST by EdnaMode
Kevin Host is officially set to host the 91st Academy Awards ceremony. "I will be sure to make this years Oscars a special one," the comedian wrote Tuesday afternoon in an Instagram post, adding, "now it's time to rise to the occasion."
The star is emceeing the event for the first time. First-time producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss will oversee the show, with Gigliotti serving as producer and Weiss on hand as co-producer and director.
Earlier on Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had held talks with the comedian about hosting the February ceremony.
"I appreciate @TheAcademy for the opportunity," wrote Hart in his post, adding, "For years I have been asked if I would ever Host the Oscars and my answer was always the same...I said that it would be the opportunity of a lifetime for me as a comedian and that it will happen when it's suppose to."
The last two Oscar shows were hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd. But each year ratings declined, with a record-low 26.5 million viewers tuning in for last March’s broadcast, which adds to the pressure the new team will face in mounting the kudocast.
The Academy, which has promised that the show won’t run over three hours, has already announced one change — not all the awards in the 24 Oscar categories will be revealed live. Instead, six to eight categories will be announced before the audience at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood during commercial breaks, and edited excerpts from the acceptances will be aired later in the broadcast.
In August, the Academy’s board also recommended the creation of a new award, a so-called “popular” Oscar, that it said would recognize “outstanding achievement in popular film,” ensuring that some of the biggest box office successes of the year have a prominent place at the awards. But that idea met with so much resistance that the Academy shelved it a month later.
Hart previously hosted the MTV Movie Awards along with his Central Intelligence co-star Dwayne Johnson. He has publicly spoken about wanting to host the Oscars since at least 2015, when he told the morning show Live With Kelly and Michael (now Live With Kelly and Ryan) that he was actively campaigning to get the role. "That would be a major accomplishment. With what I've done and the progress I've made in my career, that's definitely the next major step, I feel, for a comedian," Hart said to the hosts at the time.
The Oscars will air live on Sunday, Feb. 24, on ABC.
Short black guy in the “Jumanji” sequel.
He’s funny and he is not white at all. Will he trash half the country’s voters, like they want him to?
Everyone in L.A. knows.
He’s a black guy taking grief for giving his rugrat a “Cowboys and Indians” birthday party.
Maybe he’ll find another mistress to cheat on his baby mama with.
who?
>>I haven’t watched since Brando declined his Oscar and sent out that Little Feather woman to speak in his place back in the ‘70s.
Liz Warren Commission was at the Oscars TM???
Most likely. That’s probably a requirement for the job.
xp38 confirmed to miss the upcoming Oscars again.
And proud to say,..I've never watched the Oscars....
I have listened to this guy though....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu9QH71YKQw
I’m talking non-industry types
Probably no one.
The only Oscars I’ve ever seen in person are those kind. Done mostly by serious hard behind the scenes work, real craft.
The Academy Awards leadership “scrapes the absolute bottom of the barrel” by selecting “Loser” Kevin Hart to host the Oscar Award Ceremony next year. Not much to say, other then TV viewer numbers will drop massively once again. Hollywood just does not get it.
I really think “Hallmark Movies” should move in and take over the movie business, since they are doing gangbusters with their movie production success across the board of their menu!!! They are blowing “Hollywood” away!!! “Merry Christmas:...Thanks “Hallmark”!!!
Celebutards on parade...yawn.
I mainly watch Turner Classic Movies, but my wife loves the Hallmark Channels (particularly the Hallmark Mystery movies). I ordered her one of these shirts for Christmas:
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