No master of ceremonies, no problem. The Oscars, Hollywood’s most attended evening, will take place on February 9 without the title host as for the previous edition, organizers said on Wednesday. "With the Academy (Oscars), we decided that there would be no master of ceremonies, which had worked well last year," ABC chain boss Karey Burke told Deadline site.
A spokeswoman for ABC, which broadcasts the Academy Awards, confirmed the statements to AFP.
After a series of setbacks and controversy - last year's candidate Kevin Hart threw in the towel after the resurgence of old tweets deemed homophobic - the organizers decided for the first time in thirty years to do without " Mr. Loyal "responsible for spouting jokes and ensuring transitions. Last year, however, the Academy hired the comedic trio Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph for the opening monologue.
An audience rebound to be confirmed
The idea was to give rhythm to a show in loss of audience and to maintain it in an acceptable duration (three hours) and had resulted in a success, with an increase of 10% of the audience after four years sharp drop.
With 29 million viewers, we are far from the 43 million viewers of the 2014 Oscars presented by Ellen DeGeneres (with her famous VIP selfie) and carried by the popularity of Gravity . The strongest audiences generally took place when popular films were in the running such as Titanic in 1998 (57 million), Avatar in 2010 (41 million) or The Return of the King in 2004 (43.5 million). Not sure that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , The Irishman , 1917 or Marriage Story arouse the same enthusiasm this year. Answer on February 9.
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