After a number of years of experimenting with the format — no hosts, teams of hosts — the Academy Awards is returning to its tried-and-true format of 1 host, sometimes a TV star or standup comic. On this case it’s a man who has hosted the Oscars earlier than, Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! star Jimmy Kimmel.
Kimmel hosted the Oscars telecast beforehand in 2017 and 2018. (2018 was additionally the final 12 months the Oscars had a single host; they went three straight years with out an emcee. In 2022, the telecast was hosted by Regina Corridor, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes.) The one individuals who have hosted the Academy Awards greater than 3 times are Whoopi Goldberg and Jack Lemmon (each with 4 appearances), Johnny Carson (5), Billy Crystal (9), and Bob Hope (a whopping 19 instances — 20 p.c of all Oscar broadcasts).
The Academy introduced Kimmel’s return on its official Twitter account.
As host in 2017, Kimmel presided over some of the notorious moments within the lengthy historical past of the Academy Awards, when La La Land was initially introduced because the winner of the Finest Image prize, when in reality Moonlight was the precise winner. Because the staff from La La Land got here to simply accept their award, the true winner was then revealed.
Right here was Kimmel’s opening monologue from the 2017 Academy Awards.
The 2023 Academy Awards can be handed out on the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on March 12, 2023. The nominations can be introduced on the morning of January 24. It’s nonetheless pretty early on this 12 months’s race, however the frontrunners for the highest nominations seem to incorporate Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans, the indie hit All the pieces In all places All at As soon as, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, Tar starring Cate Blanchett, and High Gun: Maverick.
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