MUMBAI: Academy president Tom Sherak announced that film producer Brian Grazer ‘Apollo 13‘ will join Don Mischer as a producer of the 84th Academy Awards.

This will be the first time Grazer will be producing the Oscar telecast, as he replaces Brett Ratner who had to step down after controversy erupted over a gay remark that he made.

Billy Crystal, who had hosted the show eight times in the past, will replace Eddie Murphy as the host. After the debacle last year of co-hosts Franco and Hathaway, the Academy has decided go back to the tried and trusted.

Sherak said, "Brian Grazer is a renowned filmmaker who over the past 25 years has produced a diverse and extraordinary body of work. He will certainly bring his tremendous talent, creativity and relationships to the Oscars."

Mischer said, "I am thrilled to welcome Brian Grazer as my partner and that we will be collaborating to produce an outstanding show".

Grazer said, "It‘s very gratifying to be part of a show that honors excellence in the medium to which I have devoted so much of my career. Don is a legend, and I am excited to work with him."

Academy CEO Dawn Hudson said, "I too am delighted that Brian will join Don in producing the Academy Awards and I am looking forward to our producers delivering the movie event of the year".

On Twitter Crystal wrote, "Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up prescriptions. Looking forward to the show."

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on 26 February 2012.

MUMBAI: Filmmaker Brett Ratner ?Red Dragon‘ and Don Mischer will produce the 84th Academy Awards telecast, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak announced.

This will be Ratner‘s first involvement with the Oscar show; Mischer will for the second year in a row serve as a producer and as the telecast director.
 
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on 26 February 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live on the ABC in the US. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide including in India on Star Movies.

Sherak said, "I was so impressed with Brett when I met with him to discuss the Oscar show. He has an incredible love of film and its history and is a true student of the business of movies. He‘s unbelievably creative and knows how to take risks that are both interesting and inspiring. Together with Don Mischer ? who, by the way, just earned an Emmy nomination for his work on the 83rd Academy Awards ? I think these two will give us a fantastic Oscar show that you won‘t want to miss."

Academy CEO Dawn Hudson said, "I‘m thrilled that Don will again bring his tremendous expertise to the Oscar telecast. And Brett has a really smart and fresh take for the show. They have great chemistry, and their vision meshed so well with ours."

Mischer said, "The Academy Awards are in a class by themselves, and I‘m elated that the Academy has asked me to return. I hope to take the wealth of knowledge I now have about the Oscars, which is a completely unique kind of show, and work with Brett to create an evening that is fast-paced, fun, and memorable to movie fans and Oscar fans everywhere."