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Hugh Jackman to host Oscars
The producers of the Academy Awards are counting on a mutant wolverine who is People magazine's reigning Sexiest Man Alive to inject some desperately needed razzle-dazzle into their annual telecast.
Hugh Jackman, the Australian actor known to film audiences for playing a furry comic-book hero in the "X-Men" movies, will be host of the 81st incarnation of the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last weekend. ABC will broadcast the awards show on February 22,2009.
Its producers said they hoped to achieve multiple goals with the casting of Jackman. First, there is a desire to put more "movie" in die annual movie business extravaganza. Jon Stewart and Ellen DeGeneres, recent hosts, are both primarily known as television stars. Laurence Mark, a co-producer of the Oscars telecast, with Bill Condon, said there was also a desire to steer clear of standupcomedians.
“We are trying to get away from this late-night talk show rut," Mark said. “It seemed to us that we needed to turn a comer and get somebody who is, imagine that, a movie star."
Jackman's selection is also an attempt to play to the audience at home, which has been shrinking in recent years. Viewers of the ceremony are
artistic credibility, an impor tant credential for the MC. of the film awaids show. He has won positive reviews'for turns in films like “The 1‘restige" and “Kate & Leopold." He won a Tony Award in 2004 for his role in the musical "The Boy from
overwhelmingly female - the Oscars are known in the advertising world as the Super Bowl for women -- and producers clearly expect Jackman to turn out that demographic in droves.
Jackman, 40, has never been nominated for an Oscar but has
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He also has experience as an awards show MC. winning an Elnmy in 2005 for his appearance as host of the Tonys. He presided over that ceremony three times.
The Oscars are a very differ-
ent phenomenon from the Tonys. The film honours are an awkward hybrid -- a telecast about the movies set in a theater - that require their host to oscillate between jocular chitchat and solemn introductions, while sprin kling in just the right amount of self-deprecation.
This year Jackman will have the added pressure of serving as the ringmaster of a lavish sclf-congratulation-a-thon at a lime of global economic crisis.
The telecast has come under harsh criticism in recent years as a lumbering snore that takes itself too seriously and lacks spontaneity. Star wattage has dimmed, with many members of the A list refusing to attend unless they are nominated or have a coming film to promote. A trend toward honouring small, independent movies that most people have not seen has dented viewership.
Ratings for last year's Oscars plunged to a record low, with about 32 million people tunir.g in, compared with 55.3 million a decade ago. Source Internet