{"id":29044,"date":"2014-10-16T19:05:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29044"},"modified":"2014-10-16T18:48:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T10:48:50","slug":"neil-patrick-harris-announces-with-online-video-that-hell-host-the-academy-awards-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/16\/neil-patrick-harris-announces-with-online-video-that-hell-host-the-academy-awards-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Patrick Harris announces with online video that he\u2019ll host the Academy Awards in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"356\" height=\"600\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mobypicture.com\/static\/flash\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http:\/\/vid.mobypicture.com\/38fbf4b5dd20b9dd6835330c15e29682.mp4&amp;image=http:\/\/vid.mobypicture.com\/38fbf4b5dd20b9dd6835330c15e29682_movie.jpg\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobypicture.com\/static\/flash\/player.swf\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"356\" height=\"600\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/vid.mobypicture.com\/38fbf4b5dd20b9dd6835330c15e29682.mp4&amp;image=http:\/\/vid.mobypicture.com\/38fbf4b5dd20b9dd6835330c15e29682_movie.jpg\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Neil Patrick Harris is going for an awards-show trifecta, set to host the 2015 Oscars after four hosting stints at Broadway\u2019s Tony Awards and two at TV\u2019s Primetime Emmy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and everyone else who had the great fortune of hosting is a bucket list dream come true,\u201d Harris said in a statement Wednesday released by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old entertainer announced his Oscar gig online Wednesday. He posted a video on Twitter of him on the phone saying, \u201cI\u2019m in,\u201d then showing a close-up of his bucket list and circling \u201cHost the Oscars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Academy Awards co-producer Neil Meron confirmed the casting on Twitter. He and co-producer Craig Zadan said they\u2019ve known Harris \u201chis entire adult life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have watched him explode as a great performer in feature films, television and stage,\u201d the producing pair said in the academy statement. \u201cTo work with him on the Oscars is the perfect storm, all of his resources and talent coming together on a global stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs called Harris \u201cthe consummate entertainer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tony Awards telecast won Emmys all four years that Harris hosted and helped produce the program.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a busy week for the multi-hyphenate star, who released his book, \u201cNeil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography,\u201d on Tuesday. He also appears in the nation\u2019s top movie, \u201cGone Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wrapped his hit series \u201cHow I Met Your Mother\u201d earlier this year and won a Tony Award for his starring role in \u201cHedwig and the Angry Inch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 87th Academy Awards are set for Feb. 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Neil Patrick Harris is going for an awards-show trifecta, set to host the 2015 Oscars after four hosting stints &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","mauthors-sandy-cohen","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}