Ellen DeGeneres announced this morning via Twitter that she’ll be hosting the Oscars next year. This is the comedian/talk show host’s second time MC’ing the awards show. Her first was in 2007. The Academy picking DeGeneres comes after a hosting stint at last year’s ceremony by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane that wasn’t received great. MacFarlane said a couple months ago that he was invited back to host the 2014 ceremony but turned it down. DeGeneres is a pretty drastically different choice from MacFarlane, and I’m guessing she’ll get a warmer reception. Not as warm as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who did an amazing job as Golden Globes hosts last year, would get, but they don’t want to host the Oscars.
