Spirit Awards: Seth Rogen Sets The Perfect Tone-A Future Oscars Host?

If the Oscars is the sedate dinner party where guests are replaced when they get up to visit the powder room, the Independent Spirit Awards is the unwieldy one where everyone gets crowded in the kitchen, or a bloody great tent, in actual fact.

Said enormous tent is on Santa Monica beach, just along from the legendary pier, and the meandering ceremony, bands playing, guests queuing up for the loos in portakabins, is a chance for all those cinema luminaries who’ve rocked up to LA for the Oscars the following day to let their hair down and chill for a bit.

This year's event saw Seth Rogen at the helm for his debut at hosting an awards event and, my goodness, he's a natural. His hurdy-gurdy voice made his patter ever-entertaining, but he wasn't scared to push it to the line. Highlights included the noted absence of Lars Von Trier - "gone to Argentina" - and how this was a less forgiving ceremony than the Grammys, so nobody would "beat up a fellow nominee and still be asked to sing twice."

Read Caroline Frost's full report on the Huffington Post.