The Last 15 Oscar Hosts Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)

1. Steve Martin (2001, 2003)
He’s smart, classy and relaxed, an effortless performer with a sharp wit who knows how to hit the right tone, even when he hosted a show that began a few days after the Iraq war began. Plus the crew all say he’s the most low-maintenance host imaginable.

2. Hugh Jackman (2009)
When it seemed as if the standup-comic-as-Oscar-host tradition was becoming awfully tired, producers Bill Condon and Lawrence Mark brought in a singing, dancing, charismatic movie star to show what a new kind of host could do. Since then, no other star has come close to doing what Jackman did, maybe because none could.

10. David Letterman (1995)
You have to feel bad for Letterman, who followed his idol Johnny Carson onto the Oscar stage but didn’t adapt to the job the way Carson had. Some of his stuff was actually pretty funny, but his Oscarized version of the “Late Show” was a bad fit, and you could tell that he knew it.

5. Jimmy Kimmel (2017, 2018) Before his first Oscars hosting gig was overshadowed by that envelope fiasco, Kimmel was smart and entertaining enough that we forgave him for a few too many Matt Damon jokes. Hosting this year will be a trying task, but his heart should make him the right man for the job (though you could argue that maybe they should have hired a woman).

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