Television and film actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the 87th Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 2015.
The star of TV comedy How I Met Your Mother announced the move by posting a cheeky video on Twitter.
In it, he says “I’m in!” as he gets off the phone, before circling the words “Host the Oscars” on a bucket list.
The 41-year-old, known to many for Doogie Howser MD, has hosted the Tony Awards and the Emmys but he said this realised a lifelong ambition
“To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and everyone else who had the great fortune of hosting is a bucket list dream come true,” Harris said in a statement released by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs called Harris “the consummate entertainer”, BBC informs.
