Australian amateur Hugh Jackman will host the Oscars commemoration in February, a backer for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said on Friday.
Jackman, 40, brilliant of the adventurous ballsy "Australia," will be hosting the cine industry's accomplished awards for the aboriginal time, Academy backer Leslie Unger said.
Jackman has hosted theater's Tony awards in New York three times and endure ages was called 2008's "sexiest man alive" by People magazine.
Although he may be an Oscar-hosting virgin, Jackman isn't blooming if it comes to hosting awards shows. He hosted the Tony Awards in 2004 and 2005, earning Emmy nominations both times and acceptable for the 2004 show.
Jackman, 40, has never been nominated for an Oscar, and anticipation by the actuality that "Australia" was boilerplate on the account of Golden Globe nominations appear this week, this ability not be his year either. He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2002 for his role in "Kate & Leopold" and garnered MTV Cine Award nominations in 2001 and 2004 for his role as Wolverine in "X-Men" and "X2."
Jackman has never been an Oscar nominee, but was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in 2001's adventurous blur "Kate & Leopold." His added cine credits cover 2006's "The Prestige" and 2004's "Van Helsing." Jackman aswell served as a accomplished presenter on the Oscar show.
The 40-year-old amateur and his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, accept their own Oscar — their 8-year-old son Oscar Maximillian. The brace aswell accept a 3-year-old babe Ava.
With new producers, a new set administrator and even a new music director, the Academy has been hinting at an all-new attending and feel for this year's Oscars advertisement on Feb. 22.
Jackman's alternative is a abandonment from the Academy's accepted of big-name comedians. Jon Stewart hosted the commemoration in 2008 and 2006; Ellen DeGeneres was the 2007 host. Chris Rock, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg accept aswell hosted the appearance in contempo years.
