three actresses will host, for the first time, the ceremony at the mythical Dolby Theater

The organizers, who are striving to bring viewers back to this high mass of cinema whose audience is falling, announced this Tuesday, February 15 the names of the three mistresses of ceremony for the 2022 Oscars. These are the actresses Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes.

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel was the last to present the Oscars, in 2018. It will be the first time in four years that the Oscars will have one host, and the first time since 1987 that they will have three. The fact that three women are responsible for presenting the prestigious annual meeting of the American film industry is a first in the history of the Oscars.

Ceremony “This year’s is all about uniting moviegoers. That’s why we’ve lined up three of the most dynamic and hilarious women with very different comedic styles”the show’s producer, Will Packer, said in a statement. “We want people to get ready to have a good time. It’s been a long time,” for their part, said the three actresses, quoted in the same press release from the Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences.

The ceremony will be broadcast on the ABC channel and will return this year to Hollywood and its traditional Dolby Theater. Last year, the Covid-19 pandemic forced the Academy to hold the gala evening in the large central Los Angeles train station, with a reduced scale, in accordance with health rules.

The television broadcast, without a master of ceremonies, had gathered around ten million spectators, a drop of 56% compared to 2020 which had already recorded a historically low audience.

On Monday February 14, the Oscars announced the creation of an audience award which will celebrate the most popular film of the season next month and which will be decided via a vote organized on Twitter, a decision intended to attract a new audience of faithful .