The 2022 version of the Academy Awards will have a host after a spot of three years, broadcaster ABC has introduced.
Craig Erwich, president, Hulu Originals & ABC Entertainment, shared the information that the Oscars 2022 ceremony shall be led by a proper host throughout the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Tuesday.
“You heard it right here first, I can verify that this yr’s Oscars will have a host,” Erwich mentioned.
Asked who shall be emceeing the annual award gala, he quipped, “It is perhaps me.”
The Academy Awards went hostless in 2019 after actor Kevin Hart, who was set to emcee the ceremony, was embroiled in an issue over his previous homophobic tweets.
For the next editions, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) determined to proceed the practise of organising the Oscars with out an official host.
Jimmy Kimmel final served because the host of the Academy Awards, having emceed the ceremony in 2017 and 2018.
Other 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).
Also on Tuesday, the AMPS introduced that veteran Glenn Weiss will direct the Oscars for a seventh consecutive yr.
The 2022 Oscars shall be held on March 27, 2022.
(Only the headline and movie of this report might have been reworked by the Business Standard workers; the remaining of the content material is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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