Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to Host Oscars
The producers of the Academy Awards announced that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will host the next Oscar ceremony, which means that you can blame me if it sucks. Earlier this year, while doing my traditional crabby TV-critic's postmortem of the show after it made a Hugh Jackman of itself, I wrote:
Doing a reasonably entertaining Oscars isn't rocket science. It's not even paper airplane science. But it requires getting movie people to accept that they are putting on a TV show. Which means: get a TV person to host it, like Steve Martin—a movie guy, yes, but one who knows his way around a live-TV set, who has hosted the Oscars successfully before and who made me wish he and Tina Fey were co-hosting last night.
Well, now Martin is going to host, and Baldwin—he's not Tina Fey, but he is in 30 Rock. I don't know quite what to expect of Baldwin, and the choice of Martin is not as exciting as Ricky Gervais in the Golden Globes—but it's as exciting as Oscar is reasonably going to get. Is that enough for you?
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Thank you, these guys are the perfect choice. The two best hosts of SNL ever:
http://www.gotchamediablog.com/2009/11/steve-martin-and-alec-baldwin-to-co.html -
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I wonder when the producers of the major awards shows will realize that their ratings are dwindling because fewer and fewer people care about the awards shows. There's no magical perfect host (though NPH comes close) who will suddenly cause the masses to say, "Wow, I really care which movie I've never seen wins best picture!" Either give people a reason to watch the show or lower your expectations.
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Rather than dumb down the awards and give best picture to Transformers, I would eliminate some of the awards that no one cares about, or combine some of them. Best makeup, costumes, other costumes, they are different and it's not terribly fair, but the exciting parts of the oscars are exciting, and the boring parts kill it.
I agree though that hosts aren't a cure-all
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- poniewozik @LaurelSnyder that falls under the "stuffing is not dessert" rule for me. - 3 hours ago
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