# Kevin Hart Steps Down From Hosting The Oscars **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-hart-steps-down-from-hosting-the-oscars/825737 "2018-12-07T11:01:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-hart-steps-down-from-hosting-the-oscars/825737/141 "2019-01-04T10:52:39Z")
ITR champion writes: \> . . . major awards going to art-house movies that no one watches . . . The winners since 2000 are these: _Gladiator A Beautiful Mind Chicago The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Million Dollar Baby Crash The Departed No Country for Old Men Slumdog Millionaire The Hurt Locker The King’s Speech The Artist Argo 12 Years a Slave Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Spotlight Moonlight The Shape of Water_ These are not art house movies. (If you’re going to claim that you couldn’t see them at any theater within 30 miles of you, then I pity how poor your area is for movies.) These aren’t generally blockbusters either, although a few of them are. They are middle-brow films. Oscar winners tend not to be either blockbusters or obscure critical favorites that have shown in very few theaters. The Oscar voters tend to vote for moderately well-known films that are neither standard action or comedy summer blockbusters nor for little-known films. Incidentally, I’m not claiming that the Oscar winners were my favorite films in those years. In general, they weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-hart-steps-down-from-hosting-the-oscars/825737/142 "2019-04-01T22:16:17Z")
Bumped to mention that, in a questionable move, CinemaCon, the convention of motion picture exhibitors, has named Kevin Hart [“International Star of the Year.”](https://cinemacon.com/press-release/kevin-hart-to-receive-cinemacon-international-star-of-the-year-award/) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-hart-steps-down-from-hosting-the-oscars/825737/143 "2019-04-01T23:30:19Z")
Kevin Hart has the fifth highest star score for 2018: [https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-star-records/domestic/yearly-acting/highest-grossing-2018-stars](https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-star-records/domestic/yearly-acting/highest-grossing-2018-stars) He’s now more popular outside of the U.S. than in the U.S.: [https://www.the-numbers.com/person/62630401-Kevin-Hart#tab=summary](https://www.the-numbers.com/person/62630401-Kevin-Hart#tab=summary) This does not mean that I like or dislike him. Mostly I don’t even think about him. There was a good reason that he was originally supposed to host the Oscars. The Academy figured that it would be a good idea to choose an American actor with strong international appeal as the host. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-hart-steps-down-from-hosting-the-oscars/825737/144 "2019-04-02T13:49:58Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Bumped to mention that, in a questionable move, CinemaCon, the convention of motion picture exhibitors, has named Kevin Hart [“International Star of the Year.”](https://cinemacon.com/press-release/kevin-hart-to-receive-cinemacon-international-star-of-the-year-award/) Confirming my belief that his career has peaked. For comparison, Stephen Amell won in 2016. Quick: name two films he starred in. Okay, how about one? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-hart-steps-down-from-hosting-the-oscars/825737.md?page=7)