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Jimmy Kimmel will host the 2024 Oscars tonight at 7 p.m. EDT at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, becoming a member of a small group of legendary entertainers who’ve emceed the Academy Awards greater than 3 times in its almost 100-year historical past.
“I all the time dreamed of internet hosting the Oscars precisely 4 occasions,” Kimmel mentioned in a press release final November when he was tapped to host the award present once more.
Who’s internet hosting the 2024 Oscars?
For over 20 years, Kimmel has been internet hosting his late-night present “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” When Kimmel began internet hosting the Oscars, he introduced onto the Oscars stage a long-running gag from his present, the supposed feud between him and Matt Damon.
“Matt Damon and I’ve a sophisticated relationship,” Kimmel advised CBS’ “Sunday Morning” with fun in 2017.
Throughout the Oscars earlier that 12 months, Damon was introduced as a visitor when he and Ben Affleck walked onstage to current the nominees for finest authentic screenplay. Then, within the orchestra pit, Kimmel directed the musicians to play off Damon as he was talking earlier than the winner was introduced.
But it surely did not take lengthy for Kimmel to be taught that issues do not all the time go based on plan on the Oscars and a few issues are simply out of the host’s management throughout the extremely choreographed present. The night time ended with “La La Land” mistakenly being introduced as finest image as an alternative of “Moonlight,” the precise winner.
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The slipup resulted within the producers of “La La Land” going onstage and giving acceptance speeches as varied officers gathered behind them to determine what went incorrect.
Amid the commotion, Kimmel was sitting within the viewers subsequent to Damon making ready to shut out the present. “So we’re sitting there, and also you simply form of determine, nicely, you already know, the host will go onstage and clear this up,” Kimmel mentioned later. “After which I bear in mind, oh, I am the host.”
The night time ended with Kimmel reminding the viewers that the Oscars is, in spite of everything, simply an award present, and he made an offhand promise to by no means host once more.
“I blame myself for this,” Kimmel advised the viewers. “… I knew I might screw this present up, I actually did.”
It turned out the envelope that presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway opened onstage was a replica one for the most effective actress award, which went to Emma Stone of “La La Land” proper earlier than the most effective image class.
Who hosted the Oscars up to now?
Kimmel’s fourth time internet hosting is uncommon for the present lately. In his opening monologue in 2017, he mentioned, “That is my first time right here, and the best way you individuals undergo hosts, it is most likely my final time right here.”
Whoopi Goldberg is the final particular person to host the present 4 occasions, tying Jack Lemmon and passing three-timers Jerry Lewis and David Niven in 2002. Johnny Carson has hosted 5 occasions, and Billy Crystal hosted for the ninth time in 2012.
Bob Hope holds the report for probably the most occasions because the Oscars’ grasp of ceremonies at 19, however hosts now hardly ever return to emcee after their first or second time.
Ten years in the past, Ellen DeGeneres used her final time internet hosting the Oscars to set a report for probably the most retweets with a celebrity-packed selfie that included Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep.
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However not all hosts’ performances work out.
In 2011, Anne Hathaway co-hosted the ceremony with James Franco in a extensively panned efficiency that was an obvious try to draw youthful viewers. Hathaway advised “Leisure Tonight” in 2019 that the toughest half about internet hosting is the day after the present and “discovering out the way you truly did.”
“As a result of it feels good – everyone tells you it is going nicely after which …,” Hathaway advised ET.
In a video selling Sunday night time’s broadcast, finest supporting actress nominee America Ferrera described what makes internet hosting the Oscars such a tightrope stroll in a parody of a key speech her character gave in “Barbie.”
“You possibly can by no means exhibit, by no means fall down, by no means fail, by no means present worry,” she tells Kimmel. “No person says thanks, and everybody has one thing essential to say on-line. If it goes nicely, nobody says something, but when it does not, it is your fault.”
(The video additionally takes a second to let Kimmel, Ferrera and her co-stars Ryan Gosling and Kate McKinnon freak out over “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig not being nominated for finest director.)
The Hollywood Reporter referred to as being the Oscars host “the least wished job in Hollywood” in 2018 following Kevin Hart’s sudden departure from emceeing the upcoming 2019 ceremony amid renewed criticism of previous feedback he made that have been referred to as homophobic.
The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences ended up going and not using a host for the primary time in 30 years and did not have an official host once more till 2022, when Regina Corridor, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes co-hosted the ceremony. Nonetheless, the most-talked-about second of the night time ended up being Will Smith slapping Chris Rock within the face onstage over a joke Rock made about Smith’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith.
This is a whole listing of Oscars hosts from the academy, together with the emcees for each ceremonies that have been held in 1930:
- 2023: Jimmy Kimmel
- 2022: Regina Corridor, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes
- 2021: No host
- 2020: No host
- 2019: No host
- 2018: Jimmy Kimmel
- 2017: Jimmy Kimmel
- 2016: Chris Rock
- 2015: Neil Patrick Harris
- 2014: Ellen DeGeneres
- 2013: Seth MacFarlane
- 2012: Billy Crystal
- 2011: James Franco and Anne Hathaway
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- 2010: Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin
- 2009: Hugh Jackman
- 2008: Jon Stewart
- 2007: Ellen DeGeneres
- 2006: Jon Stewart
- 2005: Chris Rock
- 2004: Billy Crystal
- 2003: Steve Martin
- 2002: Whoopi Goldberg
- 2001: Steve Martin
- 2000: Billy Crystal
- 1999: Whoopi Goldberg
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- 1998: Billy Crystal
- 1997: Billy Crystal
- 1996: Whoopi Goldberg
- 1995: David Letterman
- 1994: Whoopi Goldberg
- 1993: Billy Crystal
- 1992: Billy Crystal
- 1991: Billy Crystal
- 1990: Billy Crystal
- 1989: No host
- 1988: Chevy Chase
- 1987: Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan
- 1986: Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams
- 1985: Jack Lemmon, with co-hosts Candice Bergen, Jeff Bridges, Glenn Shut, Michael Douglas, Gregory Hines, William Damage, Amy Irving, Diana Ross, Tom Selleck and Kathleen Turner
- 1984: Johnny Carson
- 1983: Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore and Richard Pryor
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- 1982: Johnny Carson
- 1981: Johnny Carson
- 1980: Johnny Carson
- 1979: Johnny Carson
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- 1978: Bob Hope
- 1977: Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda and Richard Pryor
- 1976: Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal and Robert Shaw
- 1975: Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra
- 1974: John Huston, David Niven, Burt Reynolds and Diana Ross
- 1973: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston and Rock Hudson
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- 1972: Sammy Davis Jr., Helen Hayes, Alan King and Jack Lemmon
- 1971: No host
- 1970: No host
- 1969: No host
- 1968: Bob Hope
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- 1967: Bob Hope
- 1966: Bob Hope
- 1965: Bob Hope
- 1964: Jack Lemmon
- 1963: Frank Sinatra
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- 1962: Bob Hope
- 1961: Bob Hope
- 1960: Bob Hope
- 1959: Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Tony Randall and Mort Sahl
- 1958: Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, David Niven, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart and Donald Duck
- 1957: Jerry Lewis, with Celeste Holm in New York
- 1956: Jerry Lewis, with Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz in New York
- 1955: Bob Hope, with Thelma Ritter in New York
- 1954: Donald O’Connor, with Fredric March in New York
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- 1953: Bob Hope, with Conrad Nagel in New York
- 1952: Danny Kaye
- 1951: Fred Astaire
- 1950: Paul Douglas
- 1949: Robert Montgomery
- 1948: No host
- 1947: Jack Benny
- 1946: Bob Hope and James Stewart
- 1945: John Cromwell and Bob Hope
- 1944: Jack Benny
- 1943: Bob Hope
- 1942: Bob Hope
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- 1941: Bob Hope
- 1940: Bob Hope
- 1939: Frank Capra
- 1938: Bob Burns
- 1937: George Jessel
- 1936: Frank Capra
- 1935: Irvin S. Cobb
- 1934: Will Rogers
- 1932: Conrad Nagel
- 1931: Lawrence Grant
- 1930: Conrad Nagel
- 1930: William C. DeMille
- 1929: Douglas Fairbanks and William C. DeMille
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Who has been the most effective obtained Oscars host?
In a glance again on the performances of previous Oscars hosts, Elle gave high billing to Billy Crystal, highlighting how he would faux to relate celebrities’ inner-most ideas because the digicam closed in on totally different stars within the viewers.
British newspaper the Impartial hailed Bob Hope, noting that the academy bestowed him with an honorary award in 1966, when he was internet hosting for the fifteenth time. “You could not tip me or something, huh?” Hope mentioned after receiving a gold medal from the academy’s president.
In 2020, Vogue included Whoopi Goldberg amongst its listing of the seven finest Oscars hosts, noting that she and Jack Lemmon are the one Academy Award winners to have hosted.
“Nobody can maintain a room like Goldberg,” the journal mentioned.
How are Oscars hosts chosen?
Kimmel’s fourth time as host was introduced by Academy CEO Invoice Kramer and President Janet Yang in a press release, with Oscars govt producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan calling Kimmel “one of many all-time nice Oscars hosts.”
Kimmel advised leisure information outlet Deadline that ABC — which has televised the Oscars for many years and broadcasts Kimmel’s late-night present — and Kramer wished him to host once more. Kimmel mentioned Kramer’s enthusiasm performed a component in his choice.
“I imply he actually wished me, and he wished my spouse Molly (McNearney) to govt produce, and he even wished her to govt produce if I wasn’t internet hosting the present, and you already know, that stuff finally means one thing,” Kimmel mentioned.
Kimmel additionally left the door open to presumably coming again for a fifth time.
“I might by no means be so presumptuous as to imagine that they might need me again 12 months after 12 months after 12 months,” Kimmel advised Deadline, “however this 12 months, they wished me, and so they requested me, and so, I am positively going to do that one.”
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