Bob Saget: No cursing as student academy award host

• Bob Saget will host the Student Academy Awards on Saturday night in Los Angeles
• Saget won a Student Academy Award in 1978 for a documentary
• Saget has vowed not to swear or have a wardrobe malfunction as host

Bob Saget has to follow some rules hosting the Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday night -- keep it clean and keep the clothes intact.

"The key is for me not to curse," says Saget. "And no wardrobe incidents. I've had my outfit re-tailored and I'm secure. Nothing is popping anywhere at the seams so I'm good."

Should the often foul-mouthed comedian follow through on this ambitious agenda, Saget will be the ideal host for the 40th annual award program which will honor 16 students for their outstanding film work.

After all, Saget won the award as a 21-year-old in 1978 for his student documentary, joining other past winners such as Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis and Trey Parker.

Saget's film was called Through Adam's Eyes, which was about his then seven-year-old nephew who had undergone facial reconstructive surgery. "My nephew narrated it, which made it charming really," he says. "It was very sweet."

"It was a remarkably exciting thing. It's not like winning a radio contest. It's the Academy," says Saget.

"It's a tremendous ego boost," he says. Though not quite an Academy Award moment.

"But I have a Student Academy Award moment," he says. "It's a block of wood with a thing on it. Then they put you next to the giant Oscar to remind you that this is nothing like that."

Saget recalls being a Temple University film student and being flown to Los Angeles for a week's worth of industry activities that came along with the honor of having a winning documentary.

During downtime at the Beverly Hilton Hotel he ran into his idol Woody Allen, who had recently skipped the 1977 Academy Awards, when his film Annie Hall won four Oscars.

"I was 21 years old and I walked up to Woody Allen, which is something you just don't do," says Saget. "I said, 'Mr. Allen I'm a giant fan, and I just won a Student Academy Award and out of respect to you, I'm not accepting it either.' "

Of course, Saget did attend the awards program that year where he met rising director Steven Spielberg, who was a presenter, and another award winner from the previous year, John Lasseter, now head of Pixar.

"He was immediately brilliant," Saget recalls of Lasseter.

Despite his "king of the nerds" outfit for the night, Saget recalls it was a magical evening.

So he jumped at the chance to host the 2013 awards (along with presenters Clark Gregg, Jason Schwartzman, Quvenzhané Wallis and director Kimberly Peirce).

"It's really cool and I'm just honored to do it," Saget says.

Not to mention, the room will be filled with the next generation of filmmakers.

"I'm sure there will be some winners who are going to go on to be exceptional artists," says Saget. "That's really exciting."

And perhaps useful.

"It might work out that they need a person to be in a thing," says Saget. "And I might be available."

The complete list of 2013 Student winners:

Alternative

Bottled Up, Rafael Cortina, Occidental College

The Compositor, John Mattiuzzi, School of Visual Arts

Zug, Perry Janes, University of Michigan

Animation

Dia de los Muertos, Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham, Ringling College of Art and Design

Peck Pocketed, Kevin Herron, Ringling College of Art and Design

Will, Eusong Lee, California Institute of the Arts

Documentary

Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists, Rachel Loube, School of Visual Arts

A Second Chance, David Aristizabal, University of Southern California

Win or Lose, Daniel Koehler, Elon University

Narrative

Josephine and the Roach, Jonathan Langager, University of Southern California

Ol' Daddy, Brian Schwarz, University of Texas at Austin

Un Mundo para Raúl (A World for Raúl), Mauro Mueller, Columbia University

Foreign Film

Miss Todd, Kristina Yee, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom

Parvaneh, Talkhon Hamzavi, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland

Tweesprong (Crossroads), Wouter Bouvijn, RITS School of Arts, Erasmus College Brussels, Belgium