After the ball drops in Time Square and we witness who the best football team is for the season a new genre of entertainment takes place. Oscar season now takes center stage for all to witness the super bowl of Hollywood. One of the biggest factors for this event is who will be the host? This year 2013 Academy Awards, will be hosted by Seth McFarlene creator of Family Guy.
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When one watches the Oscars there are hopes that through out the broadcast the host will keep you entertained. They carry the show and keep you entertained. For nearly a decade Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg would hold the spot all through out the 90’s and the beginning of the 00’s. As time went on the academy felt the need to evoke change.
The New York Daily News had this to say about McFarlene, “He kept the conversation lively. On the contrary they felt he talked too much about himself. The newspaper also noted, He dusted off a Mel Gibson racist rant joke and said the cast of “Chicago” was there because of concerns that “the show isn’t gay enough yet.
ABC news had this to say about the host, “the 39-year-old host’s most controversial joke came when he described “Django Unchained” as the “story of a man fighting to get back his woman subjected to unthinkable violence” before adding, “or date night for Rihanna and Chris Brown,” which brought a gasp from the audience.”
Twittersphere had many comments to say about him:
https://twitter.com/Macswell23/status/306092232518283264
When choosing a host I am lead to believe that the academy knows what the audience will need during this time. Here you have nine movies up for best picture and four of them are very deep and historical. You have Lincoln about our 16th president; Django Unchained; which is western with the backdrop of slavery ; Argo, about a group of people saving the lives of those in captivity; and then Zero Dark Thirty in which its about the finding and assassination of Osama Bin Laden.
So critics may have dismay for Seth McFarlane but his humor and his underlining jabs towards certain actors brought forth conversation that will continue on tomorrow and years to come. He made his mark on the stage and when it was over, He made his exit for the night.
