{"id":61254,"date":"2011-09-06T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2011\/09\/06\/eddie-murphy-will-host-academy-awards\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:54:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:54:22","slug":"eddie-murphy-will-host-academy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/eddie-murphy-will-host-academy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official: Eddie Murphy Will Host Academy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Official: Eddie Murphy Will Host Academy Awards<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 6, 2011<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/09\/update-eddie-murphy-agrees-to-host-oscars-academy-annnouncement-to-come-shortly\/\">From Deadline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/eddie-murphy-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-12809\" title=\"eddie murphy 2\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 230 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/eddie-murphy-2-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> I\u2019ve just learned that Eddie Murphy has officially agreed to host the  84th Academy Awards. Today,\u00a0Oscar producer Brett Ratner is formally  telling the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences\u00a0that he\u2019s  chosen\u00a0Murphy to emcee the Oscars and an announcement will be made.\u00a0I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/09\/eddie-murphy-in-talks-to-host-the-oscars\/\">broke<\/a> the news over Labor day weekend that\u00a0Ratner was in talks with Murphy  and was going to\u00a0offer AMPAS President Tom Sherak\u00a0only the comedian\u2019s  name\u00a0to host. I  was told that a lot of big names had approached the other 84th Academy  Awards producer Don Mischer saying they are interested in hosting, and  Don was fielding those calls.\u00a0Brett\u2019s talks with Murphy had been along  the lines of, \u201cIf the Academy asked you to host, would you accept?\u201d I  learned that Eddie has now formally said yes. This iscoming months  earlier than normal because usually the Oscars host isn\u2019t chosen or  announced until January.\u00a0But everyone is eager to get out the news now. I  do know that Murphy\u2019s Hollywood agency WME thinks it\u2019d be a real coup  for Murphy\u2019s dormant career which is about to get a kick-start. That\u2019s  because the veteran comedian is starring in the Brett Ratner-directed  and Imagine\/Universal-produced <em>Tower Heist <\/em>action laugher with  Ben Stiller that opens on November 4th and is receiving great buzz. So  Murphy and Ratner already have a close relationship, and this would be a  way for Brett to put his personal stamp on 2012\u2032s broadcast. Plus  Murphy is starring in the DreamWorks dramedy film <em>A Thousand Words<\/em> scheduled for release on January 12th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Eddie-Murphy-and-Bret-Ratner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-full wp-image-12810\" title=\"Eddie Murphy and Bret Ratner\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 275 182'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Eddie-Murphy-and-Bret-Ratner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eddie, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 2006\u2032s <em>Dreamgirls <\/em>but  lost, is said to worship the Oscars. \u201cNobody knows movies better or is a  bigger cinephile than Eddie. Not Brett. Not even Quentin Tarantino.  Eddie can quote scenes from every single movie word for word,\u201d an  insider tells me. \u201cHe can bring all that experience to hosting. Plus he  has <em>Saturday Night Live <\/em>experience before a live crowd. And  worldwide the biggest crossover comedians are Will Smith and Eddie  Murphy.\u201d That\u2019s important because a huge part of the Academy Awards  telecast audience is global. And with two movies opening before the  Oscars, Murphy could benefit from the publicity bonanza especially  overseas where international releases usually follow U.S. openings by  several months. Besides, the Academy has been after more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/08\/hammond-behind-the-scenes-of-tuesday-nights-honorary-oscar-voting\/\">diversity<\/a> which is why this October it\u2019s honoring James Earl Jones and Oprah Winfrey (even though she\u2019s much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/08\/oprah-oscar-film-academys-lousy-choice\/\">more<\/a> of a TV personality than a movie star or filmmaker).<\/p>\n<p>The comedy and urban entertainment website Humor Mill <a href=\"https:\/\/humormillmag.com\/?p=3889\">posted<\/a> first an exclusive (sourced from several close friends of Eddie\u2019s) that  Murphy was a done deal. But I\u2019ve confirmed it wasn\u2019t until today. A  decision like this to host the Academy Awards is made by committee with a  star and his\/her reps and pals weighing all the pro and con options.  Which is why the Academy has such a tough time finding\u00a0new hosts every  year because it can be such a career-altering decision. Meanwhile, I  hear that veteran Billy Crystal, who recently expressed interest in  hosting again, will almost certainly be incorporated into the show in  some marquee way.<\/p>\n<p>This is now the 4th straight year that Deadline has first reported the host of the Academy Awards,  including Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, James Franco and  Anne Hathaway, and now Eddie Murphy. Although there was tremendous  excitement and anticipation over Franco and Hathaway hosting last year,  the pair laid an egg onstage. So the general concensus was that the  Oscars needed to return to a comedian to emcee.\u00a0In recent\u00a0years of Oscar  telecasts, even going back decades, the ceremony has been emceed\u00a0by  mostly TV or movie comedians \u2014 whether Will Rogers and George Jessel in  the\u00a01930s, Bob Hope off and on for the next three decades, Johnny Carson  in the\u00a01980s, even David Letterman in 1995. In the 1990s and 2000s,  there\u2019s been a mix\u00a0of film funny people like Billy Crystal, Whoopi  Goldberg, and Steve Martin as\u00a0well as stand-up comedians and TV  personalities like Chris Rock, Ellen\u00a0DeGeneres and Jon Stewart. When the  producers of the 81st Oscars\u00a0 decided to omit the stand-up portion of  the show (since these one-liners\u00a0are usually understood only by the  movie industry and leave TV viewers\u00a0bewildered), it opened up the  possibility of an actor hosting again. But that flopped for the 83rd  telecast.<\/p>\n<p>There was a\u00a0period in the 1970s when groups of actors emceed: 1973  when Carol Burnett,\u00a0Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson did  it as an ensemble; 1974:\u00a0John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, and  David Niven; 1976, Walter Matthau,\u00a0Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie  Hawn, and Gene Kelly; 1977, Richard Pryor,\u00a0Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn,  and Warren Beatty.\u00a0Only a few\u00a0thesps have hosted the show by themselves,  including first AMPAS president and\u00a0one of the founders Douglas  Fairbanks, followed by Jimmy Stewart, Robert\u00a0Montgomery, and Jack  Lemmon, when the Oscars consisted of an awards banquet,\u00a0then a radio  show, and ultimately a globally broadcast TV spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>Hosting the\u00a0Academy Awards is like performing the most dangerous  stunt imaginable for a\u00a0Hollywood actor or actress. It\u2019s playing the  biggest room with a worldwide TV\u00a0audience and working in front of a live  audience at Hollywood\u2019s Kodak Theatre. \u201cThere\u2019s\u00a0no job quite like it in  the world,\u201d Bruce Vilanch, the writer of more\u00a0than two decades of Oscar  shows, told Deadline last time around. \u201cYou have to entertain this  industry crowd. You\u00a0have to stay cool when the lights are blazing down.  You\u2019ve got to move things\u00a0along. And you\u2019ve got to be charming without  offending anyone.\u201d\u00a0There was\u00a0general consensus that Steve Martin (who  hosted on his own twice) paired with\u00a0Alec Baldwin were a breezy and  classy twosome last time around. So the feeling now\u00a0is to keep the hosts  in the movie family.\u00a0Whoopi\u00a0Goldberg was the first woman to fly solo,  and her four hosting stints were\u00a0considered a mixed bag. But by her  final two efforts, she\u2019d figured out how to\u00a0blend wit with charm. In her  wake, Ellen De Generes proved to be fun,\u00a0self-deprecating, and clever  as emcee, as well as unafraid to interact with\u00a0superstars in the  audience. Unfortunately for Oscar, both women are now TV talk\u00a0stars. But  it\u2019s not just the host\u00a0that matters but also the movies. The  most-viewed Oscarcast continues to be the\u00a01998 show Crystal hosted that  honored James Cameron\u2019s <em>Titanic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Official: Eddie Murphy Will Host Academy Awards September 6, 2011 From Deadline.com EXCLUSIVE: I\u2019ve just learned that Eddie Murphy has officially agreed to host the 84th Academy Awards. Today,\u00a0Oscar producer Brett Ratner is formally telling the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences\u00a0that he\u2019s chosen\u00a0Murphy to emcee the Oscars and an announcement will be [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/eddie-murphy-will-host-academy-awards\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":61791,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,143],"tags":[5974,5975],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-read","9":"tag-bret-ratner","10":"tag-eddie-murphy-will-host-academy-awards"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s Official: Eddie Murphy Will Host Academy Awards - blackfilm.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/eddie-murphy-will-host-academy-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s Official: Eddie Murphy Will Host Academy Awards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s Official: Eddie Murphy Will Host Academy Awards September 6, 2011 From Deadline.com EXCLUSIVE: I\u2019ve just learned that Eddie Murphy has officially agreed to host the 84th Academy Awards. 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