The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Oscars on March 7, 2010. Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman said in a statement: “We think the team of Steve and Alec are the perfect pair of hosts for the Oscars. Steve will bring the experience of having hosted the show in the past and Alec will be a completely fresh personality for this event.”
Martin, who previously hosted the 73rd and 75th Oscar shows, said: “I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin.” Baldwin, a previous Oscar nominee in 2003 for The Cooler, added: “I don’t play the banjo but I’m thrilled to be hosting the Oscars – it’s the opportunity of a lifetime.”
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Yeah STEVE MARTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was one of my favorite hosts ever…and I love Alec Baldwin so it should be great.
LOVE Steve Martin, but I can’t stand Alec Baldwin, so I can say that I am neutral about this.
I’m excited! I’m interested to see how the 2-host thing works, and I absolutely LOVE both of these guys. Nice choice!
I’m definitely happy with this choice. I love both of them, I think they’ll do a great job.
My initial reaction is bleh. I think they could have looked further and chosen better. Not to mention I don’t like the idea of co-hosts. Muy disappointed right now!
Very excited for these two! Also can’t wait to see them in It’s Complicated.
I wonder if they will also co-host Saturday Night Live (they have that competitive thing over who has hosted the most!).
Aren’t they in a movie together with Meryl Streep?
Yes, jcarla: The movie’s due out soonish, I think. It’s called It’s Complicated. Steve Martin plays Meryl Streep’s love interest, and Alec Baldwin as her ex-husband.
Ugh. Two most annoying actors, that’s boring. I can already tell that this is going to be a fail compared to last year.
oh yes the craptacular hugh jackman hosted event was sooooo good last year..
Dammit, I wish Ben Stiller & Robert Downey Jr didn’t turn it down..they would’ve been so awesome together.
Stiller and Downey would have been great…
I’m just wondering if Lorne Michaels now controls the universe?! His little SNL-degrees -of-seperation is popping up in everything these days. After all, are Martin and Baldwin not the two people who have hosted SNL the most times?! Apologizes in advance if I am mistaken.
Steve Martin is awesome. Cannot stand Alec Baldwin.
Steve Martin might be good but Alec Baldwin is terrible!!!!
Won’t Billy Crystal ever come back to host again? He was so great!
Would love to have seen Hugh Jackman back, however I love Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin, they will be great