Jimmy Kimmel Set For Third Oscar Hosting Stint
deadline.comThe 95th Academy Awards has a host and he is no stranger to the job. Jimmy Kimmel has been set by the Academy and ABC to return as host for the show which will be held on Sunday March 12.
Executive Producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner announced the news this morning. This will be Kimmel’s third time at bat on the Dolby Stage for Hollywood’s biggest night of the year after previously hosting in 2017 (89th awards) and 2018 (90th awards).
After the latter show which drew then-record low ratings, the broadcast went hostless in 2019, 2020, and 2021 (when the Oscars were heavily pandemic-affected and stripped down, drawing the lowest ratings ever).
Kimmel, who of course is also the star of ABC’s signature late night series, Jimmy Kimmel Live, has a unique place in Oscar history, having presided over the infamous ‘envelope-gate’ show in 2017 when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed the wrong envelope and announced La La Land as the Best Picture winner, only to embarrassingly be corrected when one of that film’s producers grabbed the correct envelope to reveal there had been a mistake and Moonlight was the actual winner instead.
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