This year’s Oscar ceremony is to be held without the Moderator: After the cancellation of the US Comedian Kevin Hart want to try the organizers now have a new Format. And the Show should be shorter.
Everything is as always at the Oscars? Not this year: Just three weeks before the presentation of the 91. Academy Awards: At the upcoming Show it will be for the first time in three decades, not a Moderator. “We can confirm that there will be no host,” said a spokesman for the Oscar Academy.
Originally for this role provided US Comedian and actor Kevin Hart had withdrawn in December in a dispute with former homophobic Twitter posts. The organizers of the ceremony were looking for then, first, a replacement, but apparently without success. The industry portal “Hollywood Reporter” wrote, from “the least desirable Job in Hollywood”.
The first “Presenter” to be announced
According to insiders at the award ceremony of the coveted film awards on 24. February now tried a new Format. So Hollywood should introduce Stars in individual sections of the Show. The first name of the “Presenter”, which will give the prices that have been announced, among them Bond actor Daniel Craig and Oscar-winners Whoope Goldberg and Charlize Theron.
Said to homophobia allegations: Comedian Kevin Hart
Recently, there had been in 1989, an Oscar Gala without moderators. In the past two years, the talk show host Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the most important film prize in the world.
The pressure on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is due to falling audience figures. In the past year, only 26.5 million people had followed the glamorous Gala on television, a historic Low. For comparison: in 2014, had to watch 43 million people. In addition, there was criticism of the length of the Show, which lasted for around three and a half hours. You should now be on three hours.
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