Best Oscars Hosts Of All Time Ranked — Hosting the Academy Awards is live television on the world's biggest stage. These legends rank among the best Oscars hosts of all time for longevity, memorable monologues, and reviews that still hold up decades later.

Bob Hope hosted a record nineteen Academy Awards between 1940 and 1978. Historians ranked Hope first on nearly every best Oscars hosts of all time list compiled before the modern cable era.

Billy Crystal hosted nine times with custom song medleys and film parodies critics ranked as the post-Hope gold standard. His openings remain clip-ready templates for the best Oscars hosts of all time.

Johnny Carson brought Tonight Show authority to five ceremonies; Whoopi Goldberg became the first Black woman solo host in 1994. Both secured repeat bookings that define best Oscars hosts of all time rankings.

Steve Martin's duo chemistry with Martin Short won recent praise; Ellen's 2014 selfie went viral; Hugh Jackman's 2009 musical opening critics ranked among the decade's best openers on any best Oscars hosts of all time list.