Academy Awards: comedian Kevin Hart to host 2019 ceremony
Tehran (KNA) - Comedian Kevin Hart will host the next Academy Awards ceremony in February 2019, the Ride Along actor said in an Instagram post on Tuesday.
"I am so happy to say that the day has finally come for me to host the Oscars," Hart wrote. The Academy Awards are the film industry's highest honours.
The announcement came hours after trade publication the Hollywood Reporter posted a story calling the Oscars host position "the least wanted job in Hollywood".
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the Oscars and normally announces the host, followed up with a tweet welcoming Hart "to the family".
Source: The Guardian