I always thought he was the wrong guy to produce the Oscars, anyway. It was a mistake the Academy hired him in the first place. Glad he’s gone. I never liked Brett Ratner. Terrible director and he made the worst movies ever. The Oscars will be a much better show without him now.
Deadline, reports.
Kev
Well, that was fast! Earlier this week it was announced that the Academy is in talks with Eddie Murphy to host this year’s Oscars, it is already confirmed. Eddie is game for hosting the Oscars this year.
Deadline, reports.
This is a much better choice of host than last year. Last year, it was James Franco and Anne Hathaway, they weren’t funny. I’m sure Eddie Murphy will be very funny and will bring lots of laughs. The Academy’s filming crew better have their censor button ready ’cause he’s going to drop a lot of swearing.
Congrats to Eddie, he deserves to get recognized again.
I wish Eddie would get back into action movies instead of doing all of these films for kids. I hope a 4th Beverly Hills Cop movie will happen too.
Kev
Will the Oscars finally get a good host for once? Deadline was the first to report that the Oscars are in talks with Beverly Hills Cop star, Eddie Murphy to host the next Oscars. As you all know film director, Brett Ratner, is producing this year’s Oscars and he was the one that recommended the Academy to hire Eddie as host.
Would Eddie Murphy be a good host? Oh hell yeah! Absolutely! Eddie Murphy’s career maybe sinking lately by making a bunch of bad movies, but he had a successful career in the 80’s and early 90’s. Eddie Murphy is most famous for movies such as “48 hrs.”, the “Beverly Hills Cop” trilogy, “Coming To America”, “Harlem Nights”, and the two “Nutty Professor” sequels.
He’s a great actor and a great stand up comedian. Plus, this would be a great opportunity for Eddie to get his career back on track just by hosting the Oscars. While he is a very talented stand up comedian, he’s going to have to cut out the swearing and the dirty talk ’cause he does a lot of that at his stand up shows. I’m sure he’s going to drop a few F bombs by accident if he hosted the Oscars, but that’s the way comedians talk on stage. I think there’s going to be a lot of bleeping outs.
I’m all for Eddie hosting the Oscars. I hope they get him. It’ll be good for his career. He’s probably going to make fun of himself for not winning an Oscar most of the time, although he did get nominated for, “Dreamgirls”.
Kev
Yes, I did watch the Oscars last night, of course. Like expected, it wasn’t all that surprising and too predictable. I do like the winner choices, the awards went to the right places and right people this time around.
I’ve seen all ten “Best Picture” nominations, the only movie I didn’t like was, “The Kids Are Alright” but the rest of them are really good.
I’m honestly glad, “The King’s Speech” won BEST PICTURE, because it is a really good movie. It may seem boring to some people, it’s not just a dramatic movie, they made it a fun film with humor too. I wish there were better hosts this year, James Franco and Anne Hathaway were both kind of boring. The only celebrity worth seeing that did the best speech, was the amazing Kirk Douglas. Kirk Douglas, was funny, I was laughing my ass off when he was on stage, that guy has a sense of humor, indeed. Kirk Douglas, is a legend and it was amazing that he got a standing ovation.
Other stuff that was funny on the Oscars were Melissa Leo, saying the F-Bomb during her acceptance speech and Justin Timberlake saying that he’s Bansky. Banksy is the anonymous street artist in the movie, “Exit Through the Gift Shop”. Timberlake is not Bansky, he was just joking obviously.
I thought Natalie Portman gave the best acceptance speech and glad that she won for “Black Swan”. “Black Swan” was a really good movie also and I’ll admit that Natalie was good in that role.
I was hoping that Christopher Nolan was going to win for “Best Original Screenplay” for “Inception” though but he got robbed of that too.When will Chris Nolan ever get an Oscar award for Beset Director/Screenwriter? It’ll happen for Chris, just hang in there. I want Chris himself to become an Oscar winner, he’ll get his chance someday.
It was an alright, awards show, not so bad.
See the winners here, if you missed it.
Kev
Next time I go to the mall to see a movie, the next flick I plan to see, is “The King’s Speech”. Everyone’s saying it’s really good and it’s creating a huge media buzz, so I think I’m going to check it out before the Oscars. As a matter of fact, I have seen most every flick nominated for “Best Picture” for the Oscars, except for two of them. I haven’t seen, “The King’s Speech” yet and “127 Hours”. I do want to see both films though. I’m gonna have to wait on DVD for “127 Hours” because that film is coming out on DVD sometime in March. “The King’s Speech” does look like an interesting movie and looking forward to seeing it.
Kev
Hugh Jackman, turned down to host the Oscars last year, he turns it down again this year. The reason is simple. He’s getting ready to work on “Wolverine 2” with Darren Aronofsky. I’m glad Hugh hosting the Oscars is just a one off for him. It’s a good move he no longer wants to do it anymore. He belongs in the movies, not hosting award shows.
Read the full story here at, Deadline.
Hugh is the man for that!
As for who I think should host the next Oscars this year, I think Conan O’ Brien would put on a great show. I would also like it if the Academy gave Sacha Baron Cohen, a chance. Lets hope they don’t get Steve Martin again.
Kev
Well, I just got done watching the Oscars. It was a very good show. I enjoyed it pretty much, all the way through. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were actually very funny. I actually had some giggles and laughs. I’m happy with most of the winners.
I’ve been predicting for a long time that Kathryn Bigelow was going to get Best Director, and the “Hurt Locker” was going to get Best Picture, and I was right. Kathryn was victorious tonight. I’m happy James didn’t get anything this year.
My favorite parts of the Oscars tonight was seeing the tribute to the legendary director, John Hughes. That was very touching and sad. It was great seeing Macaulay Culkin on stage, we haven’t seen Macaulay in public in years. It’s nice to see Macaulay come out of hiding for once. Another thing I loved about the Oscars was that they showed a tribute to “Horror” films which is about time. The “Horror” tribute was very cool and they did a good job with it.
I enjoyed most of tonight’s Oscars except there was a few dissapointments. I didn’t like Sandra Bullock winning Best Actress, I think Gabby Sidibe deserved it more. I never saw “Precious” but that is Gabby’s first Hollywood movie. That’s why she deserved it. Sandra is such an overrated untalented bitch, she doesn’t deserve the Oscar spotlight at all. I don’t like any of Sandra’s movies and I refuse to watch “The Blind Side”. I do want to see “Precious” though even if I haven’t seen it yet.
It was a good Oscar show. The Academy did a better job than last year.
Kev
Well, well, well, look at what we have here! It didn’t take long for James Cameron to respond to the Academy on banning Sacha Baron Cohen for making fun of Avatar. Guess what? James is all cool with it! You see, James has a sense of humor.
Lets hope the Academy does the smart thing and change their mind about banning Sacha now that James spoke out! That’s great for James to stick up for the guy, wow! 🙂
More on it here:
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/hwood_party_girl/b170072_james_cameron_oscars_go_ahead_make_fun.html
Kev
“The Hurt Locker’s” producer, Nicolas Chartier, is not the only person banned from the Oscars, Sacha Baron Cohen is too. He was robbed from hosting, now he’s robbed from presenting. Why? Because Sacha was going to come out dressed up as the blue Na’vi creatures from the “Avatar”film and the Academy thinks he will offend James Cameron. They’re worried that it might upset James Cameron and might leave the show.
More on it here:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/oscars_banish_boorish_borat_qpxZFN4ice4DzhV7NQ0pHM
Oh come on, I think James Cameron will find it funny and would laugh. This goes to show that the Academy is afraid of Sacha’s controversial humor. Bunch of cowards. If the Academy knew James well enough, I don’t think he’ll get offended over something small and silly as this. He would know it’s just for humor.
Kev
One of the producers of “The Hurt Locker” is banned from attending the Oscars this Sunday. Why is this you may ask? For simply talking trash about “Avatar” in an e-mail to Academy voters. Nicolas may have apologized and said he’s still attending the Oscars but not anymore. Sounds like the Academy doesn’t accept his apology. People have the right to be opinionated when it comes to film, yes, but when it comes to Oscar voting time, it is not allowed. It’s against the rules.
This Nicolas Chartier has been creating controversy in the media as of late. I don’t think this will hurt the chance of “The Hurt Locker” winning, so don’t worry about it.
Variety Reports:
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=news&articleid=VR1118015961&cs=1
Kev
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