Academy Awards Hosts

Listed below are the host(s) of each year's ceremony as well as the date. Some years have other interesting notes.




2004:Chris Rock (Sunday, February 27, 2005)
2003:Billy Crystal (Sunday, February 29, 2004)
2002:Steve Martin (Sunday, March 23, 2003)
2001:Whoopi Goldberg (Sunday, March 24, 2002)
2000:Steve Martin (Sunday, March 25, 2001)
1999:Billy Crystal (Sunday, March 26, 2000)
1998:Whoopi Goldberg (Sunday, March 21, 1999)
1997:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 23, 1998)
1996:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 24, 1997)
1995:Whoopi Goldberg (Monday, March 25, 1996)
1994:David Letterman (Monday, March 27, 1995)
1993:Whoopi Goldberg (Monday, March 21, 1994)
1992:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 29, 1993)
1991:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 30, 1992)
1990:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 25, 1991)
1989:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 26, 1990)
1988:No Official Host (Wednesday, April 29, 1989)
1987:Chevy Chase (Monday, April 11, 1988)
1986:Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan (Monday, March 31, 1987)
1985:Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams (Monday, March 24, 1986)
1984:Jack Lemmon (Monday, March 25, 1985)
1983:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 9, 1984)
1982:Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor and Walter Matthau (Monday, April 11, 1983)
1981:Johnny Carson (Monday, March 29, 1982)
1980:Johnny Carson (Tuesday, March 31, 1981)1
1979:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 14, 1980)
1978:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 9, 1979)
1977:Bob Hope (Monday, April 3, 1978)
1976:Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda and Richard Pryor (Monday, March 28, 1977)
1975:Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal and Robert Shaw (Monday, March 29, 1976)
1974:Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra (Tuesday, April 8, 1975)
1973:John Huston, Burt Reynolds, David Niven, and Diana Ross (Tuesday, April 2, 1974)
1972:Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson (Tuesday, March 27, 1973)
1971:Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jack Lemmon (Monday, April 10, 1972)
1970:No Official Host (Thursday, April 15, 1971)
1969:No Official Host (Tuesday, April 7, 1970)
1968:No Official Host (Monday, April 14, 1969)
1967:Bob Hope (Wednesday, April 10, 1968)2
1966:Bob Hope (Monday, April 10, 1967)
1965:Bob Hope (Monday, April 18, 1966)3
1964:Bob Hope (Monday, April 13, 1964)
1963:Jack Lemmon (Monday, April 13, 1964)
1962:Frank Sinatra (Monday, April 8, 1963)
1961:Bob Hope (Monday, April 9, 1962)
1960:Bob Hope (Monday, April 17, 1961)
1959:Bob Hope (Monday, April 4, 1960)
1958:Bob Hope, Tony Randall, Mort Sahl, David Niven, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Jerry Lewis (Monday, April 6, 1959)
1957:Bob Hope, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, and Rosalind Russell (Wednesday, March 26, 1958)
1956:Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm
1955:Jerry Lewis, Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Wednesday, March 21, 1956)
1954:Bob Hope and Thelma Ritter (Wednesday, March 30, 1955)
1953:Donald O'Connor and Frederic March (Thursday, March 25, 1954)
1952:Bob Hope and Conrad Nagel (Thursday, March 19, 1953)4
1951:Danny Kaye (Thursday, March 20, 1952)
1950:Fred Astaire (Thursday, March 29, 1951)
1949:Paul Douglas (Thursday, March 23, 1950)
1948:Robert Montgomery (Thursday, March 24, 1949)
1947:No Official Host (Saturday, March 20, 1948)
1946:Jack Benny (Thursday, March 13, 1947)
1945:Bob Hope and James Stewart (Thursday, March 7, 1946)
1944:Bob Hope and John Cromwell (Thursday, March 15, 1945)5
1943:Jack Benny (Thursday, March 2, 1944)
1942:Bob Hope (Thursday, March 4, 1943)
1941:No Official Host (Thursday, February 26, 1942)
1940:Bob Hope (Thursday, February 27, 1941)6
1939:Bob Hope (Thursday, February 39, 1940)
1938:No Official Host (Thursday, February 23, 1939)
1937:Bob Burns (Thursday, March 10, 1938)7
1936:George Jessel (Thursday, March 4, 1937)
1935:Frank Capra (Thursday, March 5, 1936)
1934:Irwin S. Cobb (Wednesday, February 27, 1935)
1932/33:Will Rogers (Friday, March 16, 1934)
1931/32:Lionel Barrymore (Friday, November 18, 1932)
1930/31:Lawrence Grant (Tuesday, November 10, 1931)
1929/30:Conrad Nagel (Wednesday, November 5, 1930)
1928/29:William C. demille (Thursday, April 3, 1930)
1927/28:Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille (Thursday, May 16, 1929)


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FOOTNOTES:


1. The awards ceremony had been postponed from 24 hours because of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

2. The awards ceremony had been postponed from Monday out of respect for Dr.Martin Luther King jr. who had just been assassinated.

3. The awards were presented in color for the first time.

4. The awards are televised for the first time.

5. Statuettes were made of plaster rather than bronze which was needed for the war effort.

6. This was the first year of the so-called "sealed envelope" policy. No one knew the results until the show.

7. The awards ceremony had been postponed one week due to torrential rain which caused mudslides and flooding.

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