Neil Patrick Harris opened the 87th Annual Academy Awards Sunday night with that boyish smile, and a charming little joke about “Hollywood’s best and whitest, sorry brightest.”

Then he burst into song. So how was the “Moving Pictures” song?

One word – stormtroopers!

Ok, two words – dancing stormtroopers!

Harris did a great job. Watch the awesomeness from the 2015 Oscars in the video below.

Oscar weekend is here! A time when we all turn into armchair Siskel and Eberts (RIP twice!), and shout at our television screens when one of our faves inevitably loses. You just can’t pick ’em all.

But before the Super Bowl of awards shows, The 87th Annual Academy Awards, we can still bask in our dreams and enjoy the commercials that the best awards show host ever (sorry Ellen! You were really close Amy and Tina!), Neil Patrick Harris, made to get us ready for this golden event.

Check out Neil Patrick Harris’ Oscars commercials promoting his hosting of The 87th Annual Academy Awards ceremony here below.

Neil Patrick Harris visited Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night and of course it was almost all about the Oscars. Harris declared himself “Knee deep in Oscar prep,” to which Kimmel immediately quipped, “Have you started working on the show yet?”

See the video here below.

Harris said it was going “yeah-ish,” because what is difficult about hosting the last yet biggest awards show is that all the other award show hosts got all the good jokes. Harris hoped that a big scandal would break so there would be some juicy material to talk about. “Maybe you can get caught not being gay or something like that,” suggests Kimmel. “But I tried that in Gone Girl and we know how that ended up,” says Harris with the return.

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day today over at Amazon today is the How I Met Your Mother: The Complete Series DVD Box Set for only $64.99 (that’s 64% off the list price of $179.98).

This 28-disc DVD set comes with all nine seasons of the CBS television sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which was narrated by Bob Saget, and starred Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, and Cobie Smulders.

It’s just been announced that Gone Girl, How I Met Your Mother, and of course Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog star Neil Patrick Harris will be the host 87th Annual Academy Awards ceremony.

Patrick Harris will take the reins from Ellen DeGeneres, who successfully hosted the previous Oscars. The next awards are set to be handed out at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on February 22, 2015.

While his first time hosting, this of course isn’t his first time appearing at the Oscars. You can see a video of him performing at the 2010 awards below.