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Danny Boyle to Give James Franco 'Notes' on Oscar Hosting

9:05 AM PST 2/28/2011 by Merle Ginsberg, Lindsay Powers
James Franco & Danny Boyle
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The '127 Hours' director also told THR he planned to "misbehave" after the awards show.

127 Hours director Danny Boyle has some feedback on James Franco as an Oscar host.

"I'm going to watch Franco's performance and give him notes afterwards!" the best director nominee, who lost to The King's Speech's Tom Hooper, told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet before the Oscars Sunday.

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Boyle didn't think he'd win Sunday.

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"I don't have to be nervous tonight like I was last time I was here!" said the director, who won in 2009 for Slumdog Millionaire.

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His plans after the show? "I'm going to misbehave a little tonight," he joked. "We have about as much chance of winning as Satan's spawn."

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