--- description: Will be held on Feb. 22 next year title: Neil Patrick Harris to Host Oscars in 2015 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dd3f7854157120f/698760ff2dce0138919daf3f/ap110915066549.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Neil Patrick Harris Will Host the Oscars in 2015  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 15, 2014 9:03 PM CUT  Neil Patrick Harris at ceremony to dedicate his new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011\. Harris currently stars as the womanizing Barney Stinson on the hit CBS series, "How I Met Your Mother." (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) Neil Patrick Harris at ceremony to dedicate his new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011\. Harris currently stars as the womanizing Barney Stinson on the hit CBS series, "How I Met Your Mother." (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)Reed Saxon—AP  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 15, 2014 9:03 PM CUT Neil Patrick Harris is to host the Academy Awards next year, [reports _Variety_](http://variety.com/2014/film/news/neil-patrick-harris-to-host-the-oscars-exclusive-1201312943/ "undefined"). The actor, best known for his work on _How I Met Your Mother_, has become in recent years a semiprofessional host of sorts, hosting the Emmys twice and the Tonys four times, and exerting a great deal of energy in the process. His awards-show gigs are, in contrast to last year’s low-key, pizza-slinging Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres, characterized by a wild commitment to song and dance, as in his 2013 Tonys opening number: Harris appeared to confirm his hosting in a brief video depicting the Oscars gig as the final item on his “bucket list”: Harris is having a good month; he’s also in the ensemble cast of _Gone Girl_, one of this year’s Oscar best-picture hopefuls, and his memoir, _Choose Your Own Autobiography_, was released yesterday (and may now need an extra chapter or two). The 87th Academy Awards will be held Feb. 22, 2015. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3511295/neil-patrick-harris-oscars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3511295/neil-patrick-harris-oscars/"},"headline":"Neil Patrick Harris Will Host the Oscars in 2015","datePublished":"2014-10-15T21:03:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:49:08.839Z","description":"Will be held on Feb. 22 next year","url":"https://time.com/3511295/neil-patrick-harris-oscars/","keywords":["movies","Oscars","Neil Patrick Harris"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dd3f7854157120f/698760ff2dce0138919daf3f/ap110915066549.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dd3f7854157120f/698760ff2dce0138919daf3f/ap110915066549.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Neil Patrick Harris","caption":"Neil Patrick Harris","creditText":"Reed Saxon—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3511295/neil-patrick-harris-oscars/","name":"Neil Patrick Harris Will Host the Oscars in 2015"}}]}] ```