With no host, the Oscars scramble to assemble the Avengers
By Dan Selcke
The Academy Awards air on February 24 on ABC, and there’s still no host. The reasons behind that are well-publicized: comedian Kevin Hart was going to do it, and then people dug up homophobic tweets he made a while back, and he refused to apologize, people got angry, and then he did apologize but he also quit, and the whole thing was a huge mess.
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The upshot of all this is that the Oscars have no host. So what’s a planning committee to do? According to The Hollywood Reporter, it’s scrambling to get as many cast members from the Avengers movies as it can and have them participate in some kind of awards show stunt. In fact, according to sources, some of them were asked not to present at the Golden Globes this past weekend so their sketch at the Oscars would have more impact.
So which cast members are we talking about? Who knows. Those credits on those movies are a mile long. Here’s an incomplete list of actors who could appear in this vaguely defined event:
"Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Renner, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Tom Hiddleston, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Danai Gurira, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Pratt"
What would the sketch be, anyway? Maybe they could present the award for Best Hair and Makeup or whatever, then Josh Brolin could snap and half of them would fall through trapdoors in the stage? I’m spitballing here.
The Oscars did actually get a bunch of Avengers together back in 2013, shepherding Downey Jr., Evans, Ruffalo, Renner and Jackson onstage at once. But that was right after the first Avengers movie; the cast has grown by leaps and bounds since then. The Oscars will have to pull out all the stops if they want us to forget there’s no host…
…but will they? I’ve been watching the Oscars for a while and after the opening sketch the host usually seems to fade into the background anyway. People are expending a lot of energy trying to find a way having no host, but honestly, I think I would barely notice the difference.
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