Actor and entertainer Neil Patrick Harris has landed the lucrative gig of hosting the 87th Annual Academy Awards.
The four-time Tony Awards host has been confirmed to present the 2015 ceremony which will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on February 22nd 2015.
On being given the job, Harris wrote a statement saying:
“It is truly an honour and a thrill to be asked to host this year’s Academy Awards. I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show. To 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.”
Additional words came from Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron who said:
“We are thrilled to have Neil host the Oscars. We have known him his entire adult life, and we have watched him explode as a great performer in feature films, television and stage. To work with him on the Oscars is the perfect storm, all of his resources and talent coming together on a global stage.”
Harris is known to most people for his leading role as Ted Mosby in the recently-ended CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother as well as his Tony Award duties.
However he has also enjoyed a fine year on the big-screen with key performances in Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West and the current box-office smash Gone Girl.
The 41-year old will be following in the footsteps of another homosexual host in Ellen DeGeneres who has helmed the ceremony twice.
The brilliant Gone Girl is currently dominating at the box-office and is already being touted for Oscar success.
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