Let the right one in

Jeff Wells and Sasha Stone have already mentioned this, but it can’t hurt to bring more attention to the matter. It seems MTV is offering one college student the chance to serve as an interviewer on the Oscar red carpet, and have narrowed it down to ten finalists. The public is now invited to vote the winner, based on these ten audition videos.

I’m not going to be unnecessarily cruel about a bunch of college kids I don’t even know, but suffice to say this guy comfortably stands out from the sea of Seacrest-Rancic-wannabes. As the video below makes quite clear, David Distenfeld is smart, genuine, reasonably funny, passionate about film and, best of all, a complete and utter awards geek. He’s one of us. Vote for him here.