The 2020
Oscars will go ahead without a host once more this February.
President of
ABC Entertainment, Karey Burke, together with the Academy (of Motion Pictures),
told reporters saying,“Let me confirm it now. we have decided there will be no
traditional host again this year,”.
Kevin Hart
was supposed to host the 2019 ceremony but dropped out in December 2018 after
being accused of homophobia due to some of his past tweets.
The 2019
Oscars were the first in 30 years to have no host and saw the audience on
broadcaster ABC rise to 29.6 million Americans, breaking a four-year trend of
falling viewership for the live ceremony.
Burke said
the decision not to have a host for the 9 February event, the most prestigious
awards in the movie business, was prompted by last year’s success, when rock band
Queen opened the show with a live performance to celebrate the box office
success of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody.
Burke said
organisers planned on “repeating what worked for us last year – huge
entertainment value, big musical numbers, big comedy.”
“A lot of incredible elements have already
come together and convinced us that we are going to have an incredibly entertaining
show again,” she added, without giving details.
Nominations
for the 2020 Oscars will be announced on Monday.