Jimmy Kimmel is about to return to host the Oscars ceremony for a 3rd time, producers have introduced – saying the star can be “ready for anything”.
The late-night US discuss present host will current the ceremony in March 2023, 5 years since his final look on the helm.
Kimmel first hosted the Oscars in 2017 – when he famously managed the chaotic ultimate moments as La La Land was wrongly named greatest image over the precise winner, Moonlight – after which once more in 2018, which got here simply months into the #MeToo reckoning in Hollywood.
“We’re super thrilled to have Jimmy score his hat-trick on this global stage,” government producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner stated in a joint assertion despatched to Sky News. “We know he will be funny and ready for anything.”
“Being invited to host the Oscars for a third time is either a great honour or a trap,” Kimmel joked. “Either way, I am grateful to the academy for asking me so quickly after everyone good said no.”
Following Kimmel’s internet hosting duties in 2018, the Oscars ceremony was held with no major presenter till this yr’s ceremony – which noticed Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes sharing the stage.
The 2023 present would be the ninety fifth Academy Awards ceremony.
Academy chief government Bill Kramer and president Janet Yang stated Kimmel would be the “perfect host”.
Molly McNearney, who’s the co-head author and government producer of the star’s present, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and is married to Kimmel, may even function an government producer on the published.
After years of falling scores, this yr’s ceremony did see numbers enhance, with 15.36 million viewers; nonetheless, this was compared with a document low in 2021, held amid restrictions through the COVID pandemic.
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The 2022 ceremony made headlines for very totally different causes earlier this yr, on account of Will Smith‘s now notorious “slapping” of award presenter Chris Rock on stage.
Smith, who went on to win greatest actor for his efficiency in King Richard afterward within the ceremony, was banned from the Oscars for 10 years because of this.
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However, his newest movie, Emancipation, which is due out in December and tells the true story of “Whipped Peter” who joined the Union Army within the 1860s after escaping from slavery in Louisiana, might be within the working for a gong subsequent yr.
Oscars bosses have stated they’re eager to maneuver on from the controversy, however it might be unusual for Kimmel to take to the stage with out referencing it not directly.
The ninety fifth Oscars will happen on 12 March on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and can be broadcast reside on ABC.
Source: information.sky.com”