Neil Patrick Harris, Oscars Host: Review Roundup, Video Highlights

Neil Patrick Harris was the host of the 87th Oscars and he brought some Broadway song and dance and many pointed jokes to liven the night. Yes, he hosted without delivering pizza and without an epic selfie. But did he do enough to win over the television critics? Check out a roundup of reviews and see some highlights. Ellen DeGeneres redeemed the Oscars last year, after the previous year’s host, host, ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane was vociferously panned by critics. This time the Academy of Motion Picture Arts chose an awards hosting veteran, Neil Patrick Harris, who has had success with both the Primetime Emmys and the Tonys. Ah, but this is the Oscars? What would the onetime star of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ and, of late, the Tony Award winner in the Broadway revival, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ bring to the stage of the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles? NPH did have a gag set up at the beginning; he had the Price Waterhouse accountants holding his Oscar predictions in a locked box throughout the night (which actually had a backstage camera trained on it, for those curious to watch online). And too there was that […]

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