Eddie Murphy accepts offer to host the 2012 Oscars

By Adam Rosenberg September 6, 2011

eddie-murphy

Here’s a quick news update on the weekend’s news that Eddie Murphy is being sought by 2012 Academy Awards ceremony producer Brett Ratner to host the event. Deadline is reporting now that Murphy is officially in, with the actor having officially given the gig a thumbs up.

It’s not quite as certain as an official press release perhaps, but Deadline is about as trusted a source as you can find in this game. Expect the night to be littered with cracks from Murphy about how he was snubbed in 2006 when he lost out on the Best Supporting Actor award for his Dreamgirls performance to Little Miss Sunshine‘s Alan Arkin.

Recommended Videos

“Nobody knows movies better or is a bigger cinephile than Eddie. Not Brett. Not even Quentin Tarantino. Eddie can quote scenes from every single movie word for word,” according to an “insider.” “He can bring all that experience to hosting. Plus he has Saturday Night Live experience before a live crowd. And worldwide the biggest crossover comedians are Will Smith and Eddie Murphy.”

Bravo to Murphy. What do you think of the hiring?

Former Digital Trends Contributor

Previously, Adam worked in the games press as a freelance writer and critic for a range of outlets, including Digital Trends…

Entertainment

Will Smith’s slap, Beyoncé’s song, & more 2022 Oscar moments

Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the Oscars.

For the first time in a long while, the Academy Awards were actually a hot topic for reasons beyond just the big winners. It was, for the most part, your pretty standard awards event with some groundbreaking wins for some of the biggest movies this year, including Dune, West Side Story, The Power of the Dog, and a surprise Best Picture winner, Apple TV+'s CODA.

But the event also saw some interesting additional moments on stage and off, including one that will go down in Oscars history as one of the most controversial.
Will Smith slaps Chris Rock

Entertainment

Apple makes history with Oscar win for Best Picture

Emilia Jones in the lead role in CODA.

Apple made history at the Oscars on Sunday night when Apple TV+ became the first streaming service to win Best Picture.

The tech giant won the award for CODA, a coming-of-age movie about a clash between ambition and loyalty, in this case, a young woman's struggle between pursuing her passion for singing or staying home to help her deaf family members run a new business.

Entertainment

Oscars winners 2022: Who took home the major awards?

Ariana DeBose, Troy Kotsur, and Jessica Chastain pose with their Oscar trophies at the 2022 Oscars.

The 94th Academy Awards aired on Sunday, March 27 on ABC live from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. For the first time in four years, the festivities featured not just one host, but three: Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall, and Amy Schumer, each of whom brought her unique style and sense of humor to the job.

The stars were out in full force to celebrate the best in cinema from 2021, with movies like Power of the Dog, Dune, Belfast, and West Side Story dominating the nominations. Eight awards were handed out and accepted prior to the live telecast in order to streamline the process (which was still three hours long!), mostly for behind-the-scenes roles like film editing, makeup and hairstyling, and production design. This year also added a new category: Fan favorite movie, which was voted on by viewers via Twitter using the hashtag #OscarsFanFavorite or by creating a virtual ballot on the Oscars Fan Favorite website. But the big winners walked up to the podium live.