Award-winning US stage and screen actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the next Oscars show, organizers announced.
The star, who has hosted both Broadway’s Tony and TV’s Emmy awards shows in the past, will front the 87th Academy Awards on February 22, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Wednesday.
The high-profile hosting job is a prime gig in Hollywood, at the climax of its annual awards season. Harris will follow Ellen DeGeneres last year and a who’s who of showbiz over the decades.
‘It is truly an honor and a thrill to be asked to host this year’s Academy Awards,’ said the star of 2005’s ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ in an Academy statement. ‘I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show,’ added Harris, whose latest film ‘Gone Girl’ came out this month in the United States. He added: ‘To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres and everyone else who had the fortune of hosting is a dream come true.’
The star, who has hosted both Broadway’s Tony and TV’s Emmy awards shows in the past, will front the 87th Academy Awards on February 22, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Wednesday.
The high-profile hosting job is a prime gig in Hollywood, at the climax of its annual awards season. Harris will follow Ellen DeGeneres last year and a who’s who of showbiz over the decades.
‘It is truly an honor and a thrill to be asked to host this year’s Academy Awards,’ said the star of 2005’s ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ in an Academy statement. ‘I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show,’ added Harris, whose latest film ‘Gone Girl’ came out this month in the United States. He added: ‘To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres and everyone else who had the fortune of hosting is a dream come true.’