The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the official organization that brings us the Oscars, announced that they have chosen comedian-entertainer Chris Rock to host next year’s show.

His performance is already generating Oscar rumors. In “The Theory of Everything,” Eddie Redmayne is legendary physicist Stephen Hawking, embodying not only Hawking’s razor-sharp wit, humor, and love of life, but also the physical brittleness brought on by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Christine Choy is an unassuming, unabashed, unrelenting Chinese-American woman with short, white, wavy hair and strong opinions.