Jackman Passes as Oscar Host: New Poll

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• cadavra | November 1, 2009 9:39 AMReply

  How about Craig Ferguson?

• wellywoodwoman | October 31, 2009 12:35 PMReply

  What about the Conchords?

• William | October 31, 2009 8:09 AMReply

  Get Tina Fey AND Steve Martin to do it. Jackman is skilled, but a little oily.

• Joe Valdez | October 30, 2009 9:09 AMReply

  It's too bad the Academy Awards can't go back to what they were in the 1940s and '50s: a hotel ballroom, a podium, a couple hundred Hollywood luminaries. There was something elegant about that.
  
  And you're right, Anne, Johnny Carson but also Bob Hope were probably the best hosts the awards pageant ever had.

• Crow T Robot | October 30, 2009 9:01 AMReply

  Forget edgy. Oscars don't need to be edgy. The whole idea of turning art into a phony contest to make additional money off of is completely anti-edgy.
  
  Besides, there's a word for people in their twenties who still follow Oscars: Kris Tapley

• :-( | October 30, 2009 7:01 AMReply

  I wanted Jackman. Too bad he doesn't want to return. Sorry Academy, but there's no reason for me to sit through your show this year...

• jl | October 30, 2009 5:41 AMReply

  I agree with Sergio - the Oscars is a bit too stuffy ... needs to connect with a younger generation of viewers without alienating its base, and without being too "insider" or too political. I'd actually consider Jon Stewart and Tina Fey a bit risky as they too often than not go off on their own agenda.
  
  I vote for Neil again.

• Sergio | October 30, 2009 5:16 AMReply

  The Oscars need to attract younger viewers and go edgy, but when they're tried that before in the past it's always wound up disastrously because the host is either forced to compromise too much like Chris Rock or is too "insider' for the mainstream a la Jon Stewart. Tina Fey falls into the catagory as well. Then there always Degeneres who way too safe and too bland and the day she actually says something funny it'll be the apocalyse. And besides no one in the business really wants the job anyway. It's a thankless job with too many pitfalls. So I guess by default it's Steve Carrell

• Crow T Robot | October 30, 2009 4:48 AMReply

  The Oscars have become the Tonys.
  
  And when they announce Patrick-Harris as the host -- and they will -- it'll be official.