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The Hollywood Reporter recently said that this year's Oscars ceremony will resume the host, this is the Oscars to reset the position after three years, who will be this year's host?
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Is it "Spider-Man" or "Megalith" Johnson this year?
As Hollywood's most important film awards event, the Oscars have had a tradition of hosting hosts for many years, but since the 90th edition in 2018, the Oscar organizers have not announced new hosts. It wasn't until this year that Craig Elvich, president of ABC Entertainment, explicitly revived the tradition. In both 2017 and 2018, it was hosted by the famous talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, and in 2018 it received 26.62 million viewers. In 2019, the Oscars still received 29.56 million viewers in the absence of a host, but by 2020 it had fallen back to 23.64 million.
Jimmy Kimmel
Last year, the Oscars and Hollywood as a whole were hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the shrunken awards ceremony received only 10.4 million views – just as much as 1/4 of the peak of 2013. In 2020, the Oscar officials gave a reason: the reason why there is no host is to limit the broadcast time of the program (within 3 hours) and ensure the compactness of the entire award ceremony. However, the actual reason is that the original host Kevin Hart in 2019 temporarily withdrew due to controversial remarks, and the ratings of the ceremony without a host did not drop but rose, and the organizers pushed the boat along the water and no longer set it.
Kevin Hart
The 94th Academy Awards are scheduled to announce the finalists on February 8 and the awards will be presented on March 27. As for who will be the new host, the final candidate has not been officially announced. "The Hollywood Reporter" said that with the "Spider-Man" series popular "Dutch brother" Tom Holland said in an interview a few days ago that he is very interested in being the Host of the Oscars. The Oscar organizers also revealed that they had contact with Holland.
According to the US "Deadline" website, Hollywood action star "Boulder" Johnson is also considered by the Oscar organizers.
Taking Asians to make "laughing fruit" has been criticized
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In previous years, the Oscars were usually hosted by experienced professional hosts, stand-up comedians, comedians and film stars. For example, hollywood legendary actor Bob Hope almost covered the Oscar host of the 1940s and 50s, hosted a total of 19 awards ceremonies, and his humorous and skillful hosting style is worthy of the title of "evergreen tree in the laughing world" in the hearts of Americans.
Bob Hope
Veteran talk show star Johnny Carson has also served as an Oscar host, and comedy star Billy Christo and black actress Ubi Goldberg have both impressive hosting styles. Another well-known talk show host, Alan deGeneres, became a Hollywood memory of the social media era with the photo of the star selfie at the 86th Oscars.
Alan DeGeneres (the man in white in the front row) takes a big photo of the star at the Oscars
In addition, Hugh Jackman, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway and other stars have also served as hosts, although slightly inexperienced, but fortunately with their own popular aura, like Jackman's cabaret performance is a major feature of the Oscars that year.
However, some comedy stars have offended in order to create "laughing fruit" when they are Oscar hosts, and Chris Rock's joke about Asian children at the 88th Oscars has attracted criticism from Ang Lee and many Asian filmmakers.
How hard is the Oscar path to diversity
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For Oscar organizers, a good host is the icing on the cake. For the majority of film practitioners, the attribution of awards is the most important point for them to watch. According to the analysis of professional media such as IndieWire, this year's Oscars will continue the "diversification" reform, the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are becoming more and more abundant, and their votes determine that the Oscar taste will not be single, and films such as "King Richard", "West End Story", "Macbeth's Tragedy", "The Power of dogs" and so on will be the favorites of this year's Oscars.
In addition to ethnic minority actors, the proportion of behind-the-scenes personnel such as female and color directors will also be higher, after all, Korean and Asian female directors have won awards last year and the year before.
However, some media believe that the road to Oscar diversification still needs to be treated with caution, such as the "Best International Film Awards" that can best highlight this position, which has released a short list of 15 films so far, there are no works from Africa at all, and 2/3 of them are works from traditional Western countries such as Europe, which is still far from true diversification.