Ellen Degeneres Oscars 2014 Host: Talk Show Host Announces on Twitter
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres will host the 2014 Oscars award ceremony, according to ABC News.
The network announced DeGeneres' hosting duties on its Twitter account today, and the actress also took to the social media site to share the news with her followers.
"It's official: I'm hosting the #Oscars! I'd like to thank @TheAcademy, my wife Portia and, oh dear, there goes the orchestra," she wrote on Twitter.
The producers of the show said it was DeGeneres' "sense of humor" and "humanity" that made her an easy choice for the event.
"We are thrilled to have Ellen DeGeneres host the Oscars," the producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who also produced the 2013 ceremony with Seth MacFarlane, told Hypable.com. "As a longtime friend, we had always hoped to find a project for us to do together and nothing could be more exciting than teaming up to do the Oscars. There are few stars today who have Ellen's gift for comedy, with her great warmth and humanity. She is beloved everywhere and we expect that the audience at the Dolby Theatre, and in homes around the globe, will be as excited by this news as we are."
DeGeneres has hosted the Academy Awards before. She was at the helm of the 79th annual event held in February 2007. At the ceremony, she made history by being the first openly gay person to ever host the award show, and the 55-year-old received an Emmy nomination for her hosting job later that year.
DeGeneres has also hosted several other award shows, including the 2001 Emmy Awards, one of her biggest television appearances in her career at the time, the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2005 and the Grammy Awards in 1996 and 1997.
