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Academy Awards hosts

Order by the year of the earliest Academy Awards ceremony each person hosted or co-hosted. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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Order by the year of the earliest Academy Awards ceremony each person hosted or co-hosted. Drag or tap it onto the line
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How the Oscars hosts timeline game works

Each card is a person who hosted or co-hosted the Academy Awards, and you're sorting them by the first ceremony they presided over. A short description, often a famous role or show, sits under each name. One host is placed before you begin, with the year of that ceremony shown. Choose a gap for each card that follows. If it's the right one, the year comes up; if not, the host still lands in their real spot and you're left with one fewer of your three lives.

Hosts come from every corner of entertainment: movie stars, dancers, singers, stand-up comics, talk show hosts and even a cartoon character. Repeat hosts count only once, at their first ceremony, which matters for the regulars who came back many times. The description is useful, but hosts often got the job long after the role it mentions. Remember too that each ceremony honors the films of the year before.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Douglas Fairbanks Swashbuckling silent star
  • Conrad Nagel Silent era leading man
  • Will Rogers Cowboy humorist
  • Bob Hope Comedian of the Road pictures
  • Jack Benny Radio comedian with a violin
  • Fred Astaire Dancing star of Top Hat
  • Danny Kaye Comic star of The Court Jester
  • Jerry Lewis Slapstick partner of Dean Martin
  • David Niven Debonair British actor
  • Jack Lemmon Star of Some Like It Hot
  • Frank Sinatra Ol' Blue Eyes
  • Sammy Davis Jr. Rat Pack entertainer
  • Charlton Heston Star of Ben-Hur
  • Diana Ross Lead singer of the Supremes
  • Goldie Hawn Laugh-In comedian
  • Richard Pryor Stand-up comedian
  • Jane Fonda Star of Klute
  • Robin Williams Comic star of Mork and Mindy
  • Chevy Chase Saturday Night Live alum
  • Whoopi Goldberg Star of Sister Act
  • David Letterman Late Show host
  • Chris Rock Stand-up comic
  • Jon Stewart Host of The Daily Show
  • Ellen DeGeneres Daytime talk show host
  • Anne Hathaway Co-hosted with James Franco
  • Seth MacFarlane Creator of Family Guy
  • Jimmy Kimmel ABC late-night host
  • Amy Schumer Co-hosted with Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes

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