LOS ANGELES: The Academy Awards will have a host for the first time since 2018 and return to their longtime home at the Dolby Theatre, broadcaster ABC said on Tuesday.
While other awards shows have been postponed because of a surge in COVID-19 cases, Walt Disney Co’s ABC said plans remain in place to hold the Oscars, the highest film honors, on March 27 in Los Angeles.
This year’s ceremony will have a host, ABC Entertainment President Craig Erwich said at a Television Critics Association event. He provided no details. “It might be me,” he joked.
The Oscars were handed out by celebrity presenters but had no host in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Ratings for the telecast have fallen in recent years, dropping to a record low of 10.4 million people in the United States in 2021. Viewership of other awards shows also has declined.
Fans of British actor Tom Holland have suggested he should host this year’s Oscars after the smash success of his movie “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” possibly with his co-star Zendaya.
Holland told The Hollywood Reporter in December that he would “love” to host the awards. “If they ask me to, I would, and it would be very fun,” he said.
Previous hosts have included late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and comedians Chris Rock and Ellen DeGeneres.
ABC said in a statement that the 2022 Oscars will take place again at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Last year, the awards moved to the historic Union Station train station in downtown Los Angeles with a small crowd of nominees and guests to protect against COVID.
Nominations for the Oscars will be announced on Feb. 8.
This year’s Oscars show will go on, with a host
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This year’s Oscars show will go on, with a host
- Walt Disney Co’s ABC said plans remain in place to hold the Oscars on March 27 in Los Angeles
- This year’s ceremony will have a host, ABC Entertainment President Craig Erwich said at a Television Critics Association event
UK entrepreneur says people who disagree with his Palestine solidarity should not shop at his stores
UK entrepreneur says people who disagree with his Palestine solidarity should not shop at his stores
- Mark Constantine shut all British branches of cosmetics retailer Lush earlier this year in solidarity with Gaza
- ‘I don’t think being compassionate has a political stance,’ he tells the BBC
LONDON: A British cosmetics entrepreneur has told people who disagree with his support for Palestine not to shop at his businesses.
Mark Constantine is the co-founder and CEO of the Lush chain of cosmetic stores, which temporarily closed all of its UK outlets earlier this year in an act of solidarity with the people of Gaza.
He told the BBC that people should be “kind, sympathetic and compassionate,” that those who are “unkind to others” would not “get on very well with me,” and that anyone who disagrees with his views “shouldn’t come into my shop.”
He told the “Big Boss Interview” podcast: “I’m often called left wing because I’m interested in compassion. I don’t think being compassionate has a political stance.
“I think being kind, being sympathetic, being compassionate is something we’re all capable of and all want to do in certain areas.”
In September, every branch of Lush in the UK, as well as the company’s website, were shut down to show solidarity for the people of Gaza.
A statement on the page where the website was hosted read: “Across the Lush business we share the anguish that millions of people feel seeing the images of starving people in Gaza, Palestine.”
Messages were also posted in the windows of all the shuttered stores, stating: “Stop starving Gaza, we are closed in solidarity.”
Constantine was asked if he thought his views on Gaza could harm his business, and whether people might decide not to deal with him as a result.
“You shouldn’t come into my shop (if you don’t agree),” he said. “Because I’m going to take those profits you’re giving me and I’m going to do more of that — so you absolutely shouldn’t support me.
“The only problem is, who are you going to support? And what are you supporting when you do that? What is your position?”
