Oscars 2019 to have no host – but all the Avengers set to present

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Oscars 2019 to have no host – but all the Avengers set to present

by Catherine Shoard

 

Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow, two of several presenters at the 2012 Oscars. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

 

For some years, the Academy Awards have been seeking to shake up their annual telecast, in an attempt to freshen the ceremony and lure a larger – and younger – audience.

 

Veteran producers have been let go; edgier hosts employed – and ratings continued to fall.

 

This year, however, a radical reinvention of the ceremony has been all but forced on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, following the decision of Kevin Hart to step down three days after he was announced as host in December.

 

Hart – an actor and comedian particularly popular with exactly the demographic the Oscars were keen to court – was reportedly told to apologise anew for homophobic remarks he had made in the past or quit his post.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/10/academy-awards-2019-oscars-presenters-avengers-cast-marvel-kevin-hart

[DoctorG]

Hardly anyone will notice, because hardly anyone watches it.

[spidermike007]

This is a bit of an abomination. No host, due to overly PC America. A great comic made a joke about not wanting his son to be gay 10 years ago (probably a sentiment that 90% of the planet shares), and he is ousted from the position of being Oscar host. Hollywood, the Oscars and America needs to be ashamed of itself, for becoming this weak, and this pathetic, this politically correct. It is a symptom of a dysfunctional society. Comedy is comedy. You roast, toast, and fry everyone, of every persuasion. That is just what you do. And it is funny. Gay, straight, lesbian, men, women, Americans, Chinese, Russian, civilians, politicians, we are all targets. So what? Who cares? 

 

Some of these rather feeble people, with paper thin skin manage to find nearly everything offensive. Do you wonder why? Because they do not have lives. Get a life. Man up. Take it like a man or a woman. It is just a joke. Whats up when you cannot take a joke? Feeling a bit insecure, are we?