Move over, Jon Stewart!

This is certainly an interesting turn of events! It was announced tonight that the host for the 2009 Oscar ceremony will be none other than Hugh Jackman! He wasn't necessarily on my short list of hosts, but nevertheless, I find myself quite intrigued by this selection! And I think he could prove to be quite a good Oscar host—just as good a host as Jon Stewart last year and Ellen DeGeneres two years ago (she's my favorite host thus far; I was too young to enjoy Billy Crystal during his glory days). Hugh Jackman is also an actor I've really come to enjoy, as he's proven to be quite an accomplished and capable actor in the last several years. (It still kinda irks me that he was overlooked by the Academy for The Fountain.) But maybe one day he'll share the same honor that Whoopi has—being an Oscar host and an Oscar winner.

I still intend to keep up the tradition of live-blogging the Oscar ceremony this coming February, despite my decrease in blogging traffic this year (especially in the movie review department)—both of which I'm aiming to rectify in the coming months.