Jimmy Kimmel will host the following Oscars.
A bunch of Jimmy Kimmel Reside!agreed to host the 96th Academy Awards for the fourth time and for the second yr in a row. ABC will broadcast the ceremony on March 10.
Along with internet hosting Hollywood’s greatest social gathering in 2017 and 2018, he hosted the occasion final March. This system went hostless in 2019, 2020 and 2021 after the latter present recorded then-record low viewership.
The Oscars had been severely affected by the pandemic and scaled again in 2021, attaining their lowest audiences on document.
Kimmel oversaw the notorious 2017 “envelope-gate” occasion, throughout which Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway introduced La La Land as Greatest Image winner after receiving the fallacious envelope.
This led to an embarrassing correction when one of many producers of this movie grabbed the right envelope and revealed Moonlight was the true winner.
Kimmel was on the heart of all this chaos, proper there on stage. However he returned the next yr, with Beatty and Dunaway, to as soon as once more current Greatest Image.
The WGA strike stored Kimmel and his fellow late-night hosts off the air, however when broadcasts resumed final month, it was Kimmel’s ABC program that attracted essentially the most viewers.
When Jimmy Kimmel Reside! Returning on October 2, he had his highest-rated season debut in six years.
Because the late-night talker’s debut in 2003, he has been its host.