Oscars co-host Anne Hathaway has no intention of upsetting her peers at the Academy Awards on Sunday, insisting the big show won’t be a repeat of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards.

Comedian Ricky Gervais sparked controversy with his mean-spirited humour at the Globes, and reports suggest he has submitted gags for Hathaway and sidekick James Franco at the Oscars.We know producers this year are trying to “hip up” the show from the commercials with co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco clowning around. We know they’re trying to tamp down any notion of a sweep by “The King’s Speech” to create drama.
And as movie lovers, we know, from TV and newspaper ads, most of the films that have been nominated, even if we can’t name the exact categories. Just like we know that “Dances With Wolves” won and “Goodfellas” didn’t, that “Lawrence of Arabia” was named Best Picture but “Doctor Zhivago” wasn’t, that Al Pacino got Best Actor not for playing Michael Corleone or the Brooklyn bank robber in “Dog Day Afternoon,” but for playing the blind ex-military man in “Scent of a Woman.”
That’s why the “hosts” who have worked best in recent years have been the likes of Billy Crystal, who did it eight times, and Whoopi Goldberg (four).

Not by accident are Crystal and Goldberg animated and visual comedians with a world-class ability to take a moment that would otherwise consist of silence and fill it with a laugh.

I am the youngest host in history, and I have no business being cynical or calling anyone out. I certainly haven’t earned the right to do that,Anne Hathaway said.