For 3 years in a row, the Oscars didn’t have a number. In 2022, it should have three: Regina Corridor, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes are set to share emcee duties on the 94th version of the Academy Awards. Every can be internet hosting the ceremony for the primary time. A press launch introduced the information.
“This 12 months’s present is all about uniting film lovers. It’s apropos that we’ve lined up three of essentially the most dynamic, hilarious ladies with very totally different comedic types,” mentioned Will Packer, the present’s producer. “I do know the enjoyable Regina, Amy, and Wanda can be having will translate to our viewers as nicely. Many surprises in retailer! Anticipate the surprising!”
Corridor, Schumer, and Sykes added, “We wish folks to get able to have a superb time. It’s been some time.”
“9 Good Strangers,” “Help the Ladies,” and “Ladies Journey” are amongst Corridor’s credit. She starred in two pics that premiered at Sundance this January: “Grasp,” Mariama Diallo’s horror story set on a university campus that’s reckoning with its racist previous, and Adamma Ebo’s comedic satire concerning the first woman of a Southern Baptist megachurch, “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.”
An Emmy and Peabody winner, Schumer’s finest identified work consists of “Trainwreck,” which she wrote and starred in, and “Inside Amy Schumer,” her Comedy Central present. The stand-up comedian’s different display credit embody “The People” and “I Really feel Fairly.” She stars and exec produces “Life and Beth,” an upcoming Hulu comedy a couple of wine distributor who transforms her life.
Additionally an Emmy winner, Sykes can at present be seen in “The Upshaws,” a Netflix sitcom a couple of working-class Black household in Indiana that she created, exec produces, and writes. The stand-up’s final particular, 2019’s “Wanda Sykes: Not Regular,” launched on Netflix. Her different credit embody “The Different Two” and “Monster-in-Legislation.”
The Oscars will happen March 27. Jane Campion is making historical past as the primary lady to be nominated for Greatest Director twice. She was beforehand acknowledged on this class for “The Piano,” and this 12 months she’s being honored for “The Energy of the Canine.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood