Jackman´s Performance at the Oscar ceremony
The Australian actor Hugh Jackman, encourages the Oscars in a very cool way, singing and dancing at the show. His performance as a comedian took part on Sunday (22 February 09) in the brightness of the brilliant Broadway ceremony, at the Kodak Theatre.
The X-Men hero tested his abilities as a veteran in a Broadway musical that satirized the five movies competing for best film. The Australian actor was the first non comedian to take the lead in the ceremony since 1985, when the actor Jack Lemmon filled that role.
Jackman went to the first row of the theatre, took nominee actress Anne Hathaway to the stage to perform a duet where he paid tribute to Frost / Nixon.
Organizers of the ceremony choose Jackman (40) to bring new perspective at the broadcast, whose levels had declined in recent years.
Producers Laurence Mark and Bill Condon who worked together in the 2006 film “Dreamgirls” musical, during the show they made some movements, also they included segments of the assembly scenes of action films, and other romance comedies of the year.
The Oscar producers promised changes at this year´s show, but Jackman´s jokes were very similar to the long list of predecessor´s comedians.
He also picked on Meryl Streep, who won a record with his fifteenth nomination at her work in Doubt, a film about false allegations surrounding the Catholic Church.