Leonardo DiCaprio is likely convincing lots of people to buy Girl Scout Cookies, and he might not even realize it.
During the Oscars, when host Kevin Hart sold Girl Scout Cookies for his daughter’s troop, Leonardo DiCaprio dished out. The Revenant star then proceeded to eat up.
An Oscars viewer captured this shot of Leonardo DiCaprio about to indulge in his purchase.
One very clever Girl Scout–a nine-year-old named Molly–created a poster of Leonardo DiCaprio and his cookies, using wording akin to the recent “Be Like Bill” memes that have inundated Facebook in recent weeks.
Be like Leo. Help girls change the world: bit.ly/1OmL0Tp
It’s been a huge year thus far for Leonardo DiCaprio. He has received an abundance of awards for his role in The Revenant, and he became the unofficial poster boy for Girl Scout Cookies.
Could life get any better for Leo?
Will you buy Girl Scout Cookies now that you know Leonardo DiCaprio so thoroughly enjoyed chowing down on his?
Total Beauty could not have picked a worse time to make a race-related faux pas. The popular beauty website mistook Oprah Winfrey for Whoopi Goldberg while tweeting about this year’s Academy Awards red carpet appearances.
In a tweet that has since been deleted, Total Beauty posted a photo of Goldberg posing on the Oscars red carpet with the caption: “We had no idea Oprah was tatted, and we love it. #Oscars”
Numerous reactions on the snafu flooded Twitter immediately after the post went live. It took nearly an hour before Total Beauty’s social media people took down the post and did some damage control.
“We’d like to apologize to Oprah and Whoopi, as well as everyone we’ve offended. It was our error, and there are no excuses. We’re sorry,” said the beauty site.
We’d like to apologize to Oprah and Whoopi, as well as everyone we’ve offended. It was our error, and there are no excuses. We’re sorry.
The damage had clearly been done, apparently, as over thousands of Twitter users were able retweet the blunder and post their reactions.
While Whoopi Goldberg was glammed up during Sunday’s Academy Awards, Oprah Winfrey was actually watching the event on TV on the comfort of her couch, hanging out with her best friend, Gayle King.
“@Oprah & favorite daughter watching #Oscars & seeing @totalbeautyeditors snafu! We all love @whoopigoldberg but we don’t all look alike Jeeeze!” said the caption.
People took the boo-boo as an opportunity to post their own “mix-up” jokes on Twitter with the hashtag #ThatsNotOprah. One user posted a photo of rapper Common with the caption: “Look, #totalbeauty! Will Smith appeared at the Oscars after all! #ThatsNotOprah.” Another joke “mistook” Mike Tyson for a tatted up Denzel Washington.
Actress Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake packed on the PDA at the Vanity Fair Oscar 2016 after-party in Beverly Hills on Sunday night.
Thirty-three-year-old Biel arrived on the red carpet in a Zuhair Murad grey dress with a sheer top adorned with glittery silver sequins. The shimmery embellished top was paired with long grey skirt featuring a high side slit. Timberlake looked stylish as ever in a Tom Ford suit and bow tie.
Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake were inseparable all throughout the party. The singer snuggled close to his gorgeous wife and kissed her on the cheek. In one of the photos, 35-year-old Timberlake whispered something into Biel’s ear that made her laugh and then rested his head onto his wife’s shoulder. He was also photographed trailing behind Biel while making funny gestures.
The couple had tons of fun as they joked around with photographers and partied all night with their Hollywood friends such as Kate Bosworth and Demi Lovato.
Biel and Timberlake tied the knot in an Italian ceremony in 2012 and welcomed 10-month-old baby Silas last April. Back in 2013, Justin Timberlake called Jessica Biel his “best friend,” while the actress said her marriage to the singer “just feels incredible.”
It appears like the happy couple is really enjoying their relationship, especially their new role as parents to baby Silas. Biel recently shared her experience as a mother and said it made her appreciate her mother’s sacrifices even more.
“It’s an amazing, amazing experience. Incredibly hard-the hardest job in the world, and I’ve never been more thankful and grateful to my own mother”, Jessica Biel reportedly said during an appearance on the Today show.
“What you have to do for your kid, it’s an amazing responsibility and the biggest joy ever,” she added.
Sylvester Stallone’s brother, Frank Stallone, slammed the Oscars following what most considered an obvious snub of the Rocky star at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
Sylvester Stallone was favored to win in the Best Supporting Actor category, but the win went to Mark Rylance for his role in Bridge of Spies instead.
Sylvester Stallone reprised his role as Rocky Balboa in Creed, and many believed this would be the year he’d finally receive an Oscar for portraying the character.
The looks on many faces in the audience made it quite clear brother Frank wasn’t the only one astonished that Sylvester Stallone didn’t win.
Sylvester Stallone took to social media to thank everyone for their support.
“To all the “real Rocky’s” of the world, Please hang on to your dreams, NEVER GIVE IN , NEVER GIVE OUT , NEVER GIVE UP! thanks for the support,” he captioned a picture of himself.
Abraham Attah, the Ghana-born 15-year-old actor who broke out last year in Beasts of No Nation, was one classy dude this past weekend as he accepted the Best Male Lead award at Saturday’s Independent Spirit Awards and presented at Sunday’s Oscars.
Abraham Attah plays a young warrior in the film, which is his first role ever, but he sure cleans up nice and speaks eloquently.
At the Independent Spirit Awards, Abraham Attah wore a blue tux with a blue and white bowtie. He complemented the look with an amazing pair of blue suede shoes.
Earlier in the show, he was pulled on stage by co-star Idris Elba, who was accepting the award for Best Supporting Male.
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Elba said, “I couldn’t have done it without you.”
Abraham Attah was very gracious in thanking the people he worked with when it was his turn for the spotlight.
He said, “Thank you to the film independents for this award. First of all I wanted to say thank you to Ted and everyone that worked on the movie.”
At Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, Abraham Attah, after receiving a boost from Chris Rock, said, “The nominees this year show that when it comes to making an impact on the big screen, size really doesn’t matter.”
Patricia Arquette made a very memorable appearance at last year’s Oscars ceremony, where she used her platform to speak out about the gender wage gap and earned praise from her female peers, including Meryl Streep. But at this year’s awards show–where she presented the award for Best Supporting Actor–Arquette appeared “bored” and uninterested, fueling speculation online that she might have been high.
Arquette read off the nominees in a way that made everyone feel like she had better things to do, then got caught staring off into the distance when the camera came back to her. Viewers quickly took to Twitter to comment on her behavior.
Patricia Arquette went to the Ben Carson School of Public Speaking. #Oscars
Patricia said recently that her speech at last year’s Oscars–which she gave after her win for Boyhood–has since cost her roles, but it’s a small price to pay for having her voice heard.
“Really, before I said it, I knew there was gonna be some drama, ’cause it would cost people money. But there are 33 million women and kids that are living in poverty in America, with a full-time working mom. So, we need to address this and we need to address this right away…There’s been laws and stuff changed! Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson and Governor Brown passed the strongest Fair Pay Act in the country here in California, and that’s really significant, because California’s the 10th largest economy in the world,” Patricia Arquette said.
Jacob Tremblay, the adorable nine-year-old actor who starred alongside Brie Larson in Room, was poised and confident on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday.
During a red carpet interview with Entertainment Weekly, Jacob Tremblay assured viewers he firmly believed Brie Larson would win in the Best Actress category. The little boy is certainly far more articulate than most nine-year-olds.
“I’ll stand up on the chair and I’ll cheer like ‘Yes!,’” he predicted.
While Jacob Tremblay didn’t wind up standing on his chair, the look on his precious face was priceless when Brie Larson’s name was announced for the win. He hugged his on screen mom fiercely before she took the stage to accept her award.
Jennifer Jason Leigh has had a long, interesting career in film, but much like Leonardo DiCaprio was (until last night), she’s been largely ignored by the Academy. This year’s awards ceremony marked her first nomination–for supporting actress in The Hateful Eight–but, as pointed out by Stuart Mitchner of Town Topics, the role was much more than a supporting one.
In the film, Jennifer took on the character of Daisy Domergue, a rough-talking, hard-living wild West gangster who gets herself arrested and hauled through a blizzard to await her fate.
“She’ll try anything, she’ll push it all the way. She’s crazy like a fox. You don’t know if you should feel sorry for her; you don’t know if you should despise her,” said producer Stacy Sher.
For Jennifer Jason Leigh, the fact that she was nominated at this point in her career–not long after she thought she might not come back to Hollywood after having a child–was a wonderful feeling.
“It feels incredibly sweet, it really does. I mean, to be recognized at this time in my life? I didn’t expect any of this, so it is absolutely lovely and I feel very happy and grateful,” Leigh said on a recent podcast.
Leigh says she took a break from the spotlight after a successful career because, at the age of 48, she had a baby and saw her marriage of five years end. For her, acting wasn’t worth the struggle of finding the right roles when she had other priorities.
“I love acting, but I am a mom and the roles just weren’t coming because of a mixture of things: because I’m not ambitious and because I’m older and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way,” she reflects. “And I had sort of made my peace with that.”
The Hateful Eight isn’t the only critically-acclaimed film starring Leigh to come out in recent months; Anomalisa was a years-long stop-motion project that progressed through a lot of changes in her own life.
“My Lisa’s still my Lisa. But when we started it I had just gotten married, and when we recorded it eight years later I was divorced and a single mom, so a lot had happened to me in those years. I understood the ending for Lisa in a more significant way, perhaps, but I also love how she still has so much hope,” Jennifer said.
Though Jennifer Jason Leigh lost to Alicia Vikander for Best Supporting Actress, the fact that she was nominated at this stage in her career meant a lot. Besides the Oscar, she was also nominated for and won the best supporting actress National Board of Review Award, was nominated for the Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit awards.
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel don’t often leave baby Silas with a babysitter, but in honor of the Oscars fun this weekend, the singer and actress made an exception. Spotted at a pre-Oscars party on Friday night, JT and the 7th Heaven star must not have had their sitter for too many hours, as they were seen leaving the party with what appeared to be a pizza from the event in tow.
Jessica Biel was super sexy in a short floral dress, paired with a cropped leather jacket and white pumps. Justin Timberlake was decked out in a blazer, button down shirt, and dark blue jeans.
It was Justin Timberlake who was seen carrying the silver pizza pan–filled with pizza–as he and Jessica Biel exited the party.
Perhaps next year JT and Jessica will celebrate a Justin Timberlake Oscar nomination and win. He is set to both executive produce and star in an upcoming film called Trolls. He will also oversee direction of the film’s music–combining his talents and the best of both creative worlds.
“I have always envisioned bringing the two worlds of film and music together for one epic event,” Justin Timberlake said in a statement earlier this week. “I couldn’t be more excited that they will collide in DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls. This film is very special, the music is going to be very special and I can’t wait for everyone to experience it all.”
Justin Timberlake is pretty special himself. His talent grows more profound with time. He’d likely say what’s really special, however, is being a husband and father, as he is to wife Jessica Biel and son Silas.
Justin Timberlake has certainly come a long way since his ‘N Sync days. Don’t you agree?
Daisy Ridley will make her Oscars debut on Sunday, when she serves as a presenter at the Academy Awards. The Star Wars: The Force Awakens star is experiencing some jitters, however, ahead of the big day. She says in an interview with E! News she plans to sandpaper the bottoms of her shoes before the event.
“I don’t want to ice skate down the red carpet. Imagine how awful that would be?” Daisy Ridley explains. “I’m thinking about all the worst possibilities that could happen—like, I could trip or say something wrong or trip as I’m walking up to the stage. Hopefully, it will all be fine.”
In preparation for the Oscars, Daisy Ridley did what all celebrities do–she chose her attire.
“I looked at a few dresses, I picked my favorite and that’s the one I’m wearing,” she says. “It’s a gorgeous dress and gorgeous jewelry and I’ll have people making me up, making me look better.”
There won’t be much of a break for Daisy Ridley, who arrived in the U.S. from the U.K. on Monday. She will head back to the U.K. the morning after the Oscars, where she will return to filming Star Wars: Episode VIII, reprising her role as Rey.
“It’s a weird little break,” she says, “but it’s very exciting.”
It will be very exciting to see Daisy Ridley presenting at the Academy Awards on Sunday, too. Will you be tuning in to see the Star Wars: The Force Awakens star?
Kate Winslet is just one of many actors who won’t boycott the upcoming Oscars. Instead she plans to attend, in support of all the women who were nominated, as well as her Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.
“To be honest with you, it has been such an extraordinary year for women, I’d feel like I was letting my side down if I didn’t go,” she said in a recent interview with the BBC. “And also I feel very strongly that it may possibly be Leo’s year. And he is my closest friend in the world, and I just couldn’t imagine not being there to support him.”
Kate Winslet is an Oscar nominee, too. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Steve Jobs.
Winslet won a Golden Globe for her role in Steve Jobs. She was shocked by the win, saying she was concentrating on Leonardo DiCaprio instead of herself.
“I was shocked!” she said. “To be honest with you, [it was] because I’ve been so focused on Leo and him winning everything and being so excited for him.”
The first person Leonardo DiCaprio hugged when he won his SAG Award was Kate Winslet.
The Oscars could be a big night for DiCaprio. Nominated for his role in The Revenant, he is favored to win.
Sylvester Stallone is nominated for an Oscar for his performance in the movie Creed – but the 69-year-old actor almost sat out this year’s ceremony.
As you’re probably well aware, the Academy has taken much criticism for the lack of diversity surrounding this year’s show. All the actors and actresses nominated in both leading and supporting categories are white.
This has prompted an internet protest in the form of the #OscarsSoWhite meme, as well as boycotts from numerous actors and directors.
And according to Stallone, he almost decided to join the boycott – despite being a nominee.
Ultimately, it was Creed director Ryan Coogler who convinced Stallone to attend the award show.
“I said, ‘If you don’t want me to go, I won’t.’ He said, ‘I want you to go.’ That’s the kind of guy he is. He wanted me to stand up for the film,” Stallone said at Monday’s Oscars nominee luncheon.
Both Coogler and Creed star Michael B. Jordan were left out of this year’s Oscar nominees pool – and both are black. Many see this as an egregious snub.
Last month, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a goal to double its women and minority members by 2020.
“The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition.”
Other actors have spoken out about the lack of diversity. Matt Damon called it “shameful and embarrassing.”
Stacey Dash was dissed recently by former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Janet Hubert. In fact, Hubert called Stacey Dash a “media ho.”
It wasn’t long in arriving. The slam from Janet Hubert follows some controversial comments Dash recently made regarding inequality at the Oscars. She slammed the Oscars boycott recently during an episode of Fox & Friends.
“I think it’s ludicrous,” Stacey Dash said with regard to the response of people like Jada Pinkett Smith and others to the Oscar nominations. “We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration. If we don’t want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the [NAACP] Image Awards, where you’re only awarded it you’re black.”
“If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms, it’s a double standard,” she added before saying “there shouldn’t be a black history month. We’re Americans. Period.”
Janet Hubert says Stacey Dash “has worked on BET more than most actresses have.”
She is a bit suspicious of Dash’s intentions, too.
“I think she’s just saying this kind of bull because she wants sensationalism and she’s working for Fox and she needs a job and she’s making a check,” Hubert said.
Stacey Dash tried to cover her tracks by “clarifying” her initial comments–the ones that have Janet Hubert up in arms.
On her blog, she suggested black people need to “quit settling for scraps.”
“It’s hard to cut through the hysterical reactions to my comments the other day about Black History Month,” Stacey Dash wrote. “I feel like many of your reactions–saying that I’ve sold out to white people, that I’m ‘coonin” etc–show you aren’t hearing me.”
“Black History should be apart of social studies and history curriculum EVERYDAY OF EVERY MONTH OF EVERY YEAR. not just 28 days out of 365!!!” she added. “In a hundred years, do you really want the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr, Frederick Douglass, and even Barack Obama to be discussed only in the month of February?”
What’s your take on Stacey Dash? Is she, in fact, a “media ho” as Janet Hubert so eloquently suggested? Or is she simply someone who spoke too soon and is prone to being misunderstood?
Oscar-nominated actor Matt Damon has spoken out about the controversy surrounding the Academy Awards and its lack of diversity among nominated actors and actresses.
“You know, it’s shameful and embarrassing. There’s two years in a row that there are no people of color nominated. That’s insane,” he told US Weekly.
“We’re talking about huge systemic injustices around race and gender that are a lot bigger than the Oscars,” Damon said. “They’re massive issues in our industry and in our country.”
This year’s Oscar nominations, which feature all-white actors for Best Actor, Best Actress, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress, sparked controversy and has led to protests and boycotts.
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith and director Spike Lee have announced they will boycott the ceremony.
Matt Damon was nominated for Best Actor for his role in The Martian.
Earlier this week, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a goal to double its women and minority members by 2020.
“The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition.”
Damon thinks this is a good first step, but the Academy has to do “much, much, much more.”
Jada Pinkett Smith called for a boycott of the upcoming Oscars because of the lack of diversity among the 2016 nominees.
Not long after she made her boycott wishes known, Jada Pinkett Smith came under fire from Janet Hubert–Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Smith’s husband Will Smith starred on the sitcom.
Hubert shared a video earlier this week calling out Jada Pinkett Smith, calling her call to boycott hypocritical.
“I find it ironic that somebody who has made their living and made millions and millions of dollars from the very people that you’re talking about boycotting just because you didn’t get a nomination, just because you didn’t win?” Hubert said in the video. “That is not the way life works, baby.”
Jada Pinkett Smith responded to Hubert’s video in her own video clip posted by Entertainment Tonight.
“This whole Oscar controversy isn’t really about the Oscars,” she says in the clip. “Really, in my plea to ask all communities and people of color to take back our power is so that we can use it in all sectors of our community, and right now, specifically with African-American people, we have some very serious issues that I think we as a people have to move together on. I’m hoping we can find ways to step together in this instead of finding ways to fight each other. I got love for everybody.”
Janet Hubert had more to say, and she did just that in an interview with The Los Angeles Times.
“I’m a real freedom fighter,” she told the publication. “I’m not a pretend freedom fighter. I stand up for other actresses, other people. The Smiths just irked me because they are such pretenders, and everything is a photo op. It’s just self-contrived because her hubby didn’t get a nomination.”
Which of these women might you choose to support? Do you believe Jada Pinkett Smith is calling for an Oscars boycott for the right reasons, or do you tend to think Janet Hubert hit the nail on its proverbial head instead?
Lupita Nyong’o has added her voice to a rising chorus of actors and actresses that are calling for more diversity when it comes to the Academy Awards.
Joining those like Jada Pinkett Smith, who will be boycotting this year’s Oscars, Lupita Nyong’o posted a statement to Instagram.
Part of Lupita Nyong’o’s statement read, “It has me thinking about unconscious prejudice and what merits prestige in our culture. The Awards should not dictate the terms of art in our modern society, but rather be a diverse reflection of the best of what our art has to offer today.”
However, Lupita Nyong’o didn’t say whether or not she would be boycotting the Oscars this year.
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Jada Pinkett Smith posted a video to Facebook earlier this week in which she said, in part, “Maybe it’s time we pull back our resources and we put them back into our communities, and we make programs for ourselves that acknowledge us in ways that we see fit, that are just as good as the so-called mainstream.”
However, not all African-American actors are jumping on board. One who disagrees with the outrage, for example, is Janet Hubert. Hubert played Will Smith’s Aunt Vivian on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Stacey Dash spoke up recently on the backlash created in Hollywood when the Oscar nominations were announced–and left out any actor or actress of color despite several successful films in 2015–and said that if we want things to be equal, we need to get rid of exclusionary programs and television channels.
“I think it’s ludicrous. Because we have to make up our minds. Either we want segregation or integration…If we don’t want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET, and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you’re only awarded if you’re black. If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. It’s a double standard,” Dash said on Fox & Friends.
Several A-list actors have boycotted the Oscars this year, including George Clooney and Will and Jada Smith, who say that the lack of nominations for people of color is outrageous. Lupita Nyong’o also lent her voice to the conversation via Instagram, posting a message about her disappointment in the Academy.
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While Stacey Dash’s views may be more controversial than others, many actors are joining in the fight to have black actors heard, including Idris Elba. Elba delivered a speech to Parliament on diversity in the media earlier this week, saying that diversity of thought is just as important as skin color.
“I’m here to talk about diversity. Diversity in the modern world is more than just skin color—It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought. Because if you have genuine diversity of thought among people making TV & film, then you won’t accidentally shut out any of the groups I just mentioned,” Elba said.
Jada Pinkett Smith agrees with many who are outraged over the Oscars’ lack of diversity, and she has decided to boycott the awards show.
If you’ve been on Twitter since this year’s Oscar nominees were announced, you may have seen the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite trending off and on. The backlash to this year’s list of nominees has been strong.
All 20 acting nominations – Leading Actor, Leading Actress, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress – were given to white performers.
“At the Oscars…people of color are always welcomed to give out awards…even entertain,” Pinkett Smith tweeted over the weekend. “But we are rarely recognized for our artistic accomplishments. Should people of color refrain from participating all together? People can only treat us in the way in which we allow. With much respect in the midst of deep disappointment.”
At the Oscars…people of color are always welcomed to give out awards…even entertain, (pt. 1)
In a video posted to her Facebook page, Smith elaborated on her feelings about the Oscars. She announced that she would not attend, not will she watch the ceremony.
It’s been a good week for Lady Gaga, as she’s already won one major award and has been nominated for another.
At Sunday’s Golden Globes, Gaga picked up her first statue for her performance on American Horror Story: Hotel. And then, a few days later, she was nominated for her first Oscar – Best Original Song for “Til It Happens to You.”
The song was written for a documentary called The Hunting Ground, which shines a light on sexual assault on college campuses.
So it’s fitting that Lady Gaga would dedicate her nomination to victims of sexual violence.
“This nomination lends a voice to victims & survivors all over the world. Thank you to The Academy for recognizing the movement of people who have come together for this film & song in the name of sexual assault. Myself and Diane are simply honored to represent the voices of so many SURVIVORS,” she wrote on Instagram.
While the Academy Award nominations won’t be announced until January 14, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences revealed Monday the shortlist of potential nominees for just one category, that of best visual effects, with Jurassic World and Star Wars among them.
Jurassic World opened back in June, and stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. It is the fourth film in the Jurassic Park series of films about dinosaurs.
In addition to Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Jurassic World, other contenders for the visual effects Oscar are Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant (which just opened on Christmas Day), Tomorrowland, and The Walk.
From this shortlist, five contenders will receive the Academy Award nomination.
Will Jurassic World and Star Wars both make the cut?
Neil Patrick Harris hosted this year’s Oscars last month, and said recently that once is likely enough. The How I Met Your Mother star says it’s not something he anticipates doing again.
You’ll no doubt recall that Neil Patrick Harris had big shoes to fill this year. He followed in the footsteps of Ellen DeGeneres as Oscars host, and those are some big shoes to fill.
“I don’t know that my family nor my soul could take it,” he said during an interview with the Huffington Post. “It’s a beast. It was fun to check off the list, but for the amount of time spent and the understandable opinionated response, I don’t know that it’s a delightful balance to do every year or even again.”
Neil Patrick Harris even admitted that following the criticism of everything he did while hosting the Oscars was a bit disconcerting.
“It was interesting to see just what people thought landed and didn’t. It’s so difficult for one who’s simply watching the show to realize just how much time and concession and compromise and explanation has gone into almost every single thing. Every joke. Wording of joke. Placement of joke. Canceling of joke. Embellishment for just one line,” he said .”And I’m not saying that to defend everything I said as if it was the absolute best choice, but it’s also an award show, and you’re powering through 14 acts filled with 20 plus awards. So my job was to try and keep things as light and specific to this year’s set of films as possible. And if people are critical of that, it’s a big giant platform, so I would assume that they would be.”
How do you think Neil Patrick Harris did as host of the 2015 Oscars? Did he even hold a candle to Ellen DeGeneres’s performance the year before? Do you think Ellen will come back next year to host the 2016 Oscars? And if not, who do you suppose the 2016 host might be?
