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Kevin Hart Explains Why He Won't Host the Oscars After 2018 Scandal


Kevin Hart explained why he wouldn’t say yes to hosting the Academy Awards again after his 2018 scandal

Over the past 20 years, celebrities including Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Kimmel have hosted the Academy Awards. Kevin HartAlan Chapman/Dave Benett/WireImage“I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year’s Oscar’s … this is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists,” he wrote in a statement at the time. From the Anne Hathaway-James Franco disaster of 2011 to David Letterman's "Oprah, Uma" joke in 1995, here's a look back at the most memorable hosts in Academy Awards history

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