Neil Patrick Harris dishes about his Academy Awards preparations

Neil Patrick Harris has recently dished about his preparation for hosting the Academy Awards event.

The 41-year-old artists has been trying to watch a bunch of past Oscar shows in sequence so that he could see how technology and sets have changed, E! Online reported.

Award shows are a room filled with terribly nervous people who have been through a gauntlet of anticipation, so the 'Gone Girl' actor has been trying to figure out how to be fun, casual and confident to keep it a good show, he further added.