Oscar Hosts Through the Years: Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneres

What a roster! Over the previous 20 years, celebrities together with Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Kimmel have hosted the Academy Awards.

Whereas there isn’t a scarcity of unbelievable stars who’ve taken the stage at Hollywood’s largest evening, there have additionally been years the place the Oscars selected to go with none emcee in any respect. 

In 2019, Kevin Hart stepped down from his internet hosting duties on the 91st Academy Awards after a sequence of his previous homophobic tweets resurfaced on-line. 

“I’ve made the selection to step down from internet hosting this 12 months’s Oscar’s….it is because I don’t need to be a distraction on an evening that must be celebrated by so many superb gifted artists. I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ neighborhood for my insensitive phrases from my previous,” the comic, 43, tweeted in December 2018. “I’m sorry that I harm folks.. I’m evolving and need to proceed to take action. My purpose is to deliver folks collectively not tear us aside. A lot love & appreciation to the Academy. I hope we will meet once more.”

Hart made headlines earlier that month when the since-deleted controversial remarks, which he wrote in 2011, had been found by followers. “Yo if my son comes house & attempt’s 2 play with my daughter’s doll home I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘cease that’s homosexual,” the Jumanji star tweeted on the time. (Hart shares son Hendrix and daughter Heaven with ex Torrei Hart and son Kenzo with spouse Eniko Parrish.)

Previous to backing out of the present, the Academy requested that Hart apologize for his feedback. Nevertheless, Hart shared that he initially “handed” on the apology as a result of he had “addressed” the tweets a number of instances earlier than and didn’t need to “reward” the “web trolls.” 

He later took to Instagram to deal with the controversy additional, writing, “You LIVE and YOU LEARN & YOU GROW & YOU MATURE. I reside to Love …. Please take your unfavourable power and put it into one thing constructive. Please …. What’s understood ought to by no means need to be mentioned. I LOVE EVERYBODY ….. ONCE AGAIN EVERYBODY. In case you select to not consider me then that’s on you …. Have a fantastic day.”

The 2019 Oscars went on with out a host, as a substitute highlighting celebrities presenting the trophies. ABC Leisure president Karey Burke mentioned on the time that the ceremony would “simply have presenters host” and that the “compelling” thriller surrounding the occasion proved viewers would tune in. 

The Academy adopted go well with for the following two years, not re-introducing the normal format till 2022 when Regina Corridor, Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer took the stage. When requested why the trio determined to tackle certainly one of leisure’s hardest jobs, Corridor and Sykes gushed over the chance for ladies to collaborate collectively. 

“If that they had come to me and mentioned, ‘Hey, do you need to host the Oscars by your self?’ I might have mentioned ‘Hell no, completely not,’” Sykes advised the New York Instances in March 2022. “Why would I need to try this? I like my life. However with the 2 of them, I’m actually wanting ahead to it.” 

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