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 at all times dreamed of internet hosting the Oscars precisely 4 instances,” Kimmel stated 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 Stay!” 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 an advanced relationship,” Kimmel informed CBS’ “Sunday Morning” with fun in 2017.
Through the Oscars earlier that yr, Damon was introduced as a visitor when he and Ben Affleck walked onstage to current the nominees for greatest unique screenplay. Then, within the orchestra pit, Kimmel directed the musicians to play off Damon as he was talking earlier than the winner was introduced.
However it did not take lengthy for Kimmel to be taught that issues do not at all times go in accordance with plan on the Oscars and a few issues are simply out of the host’s management in the course of the extremely choreographed present. The night time ended with “La La Land” mistakenly being introduced as greatest image as a substitute of “Moonlight,” the precise winner.
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 improper.
Amid the commotion, Kimmel was sitting within the viewers subsequent to Damon getting ready to shut out the present. “So we’re sitting there, and also you simply form of determine, nicely, you understand, the host will go onstage and clear this up,” Kimmel stated 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 any case, simply an award present, and he made an offhand promise to by no means host once more.
“I blame myself for this,” Kimmel informed 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 very best actress award, which went to Emma Stone of “La La Land” proper earlier than the very best image class.
Who hosted the Oscars prior to now?
Kimmel’s fourth time internet hosting is uncommon for the present in recent times. In his opening monologue in 2017, he stated, “That is my first time right here, and the way in which 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 instances, tying Jack Lemmon and passing three-timers Jerry Lewis and David Niven in 2002. Johnny Carson has hosted 5 instances, and Billy Crystal hosted for the ninth time in 2012.
Bob Hope holds the report for probably the most instances 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.
However not all hosts’ performances work out.
In 2011, Anne Hathaway co-hosted the ceremony with James Franco in a broadly panned efficiency that was an obvious try to draw youthful viewers. Hathaway informed “Leisure Tonight” in 2019 that the toughest half about internet hosting is the day after the present and “discovering out the way you really did.”
“As a result of it feels good – everyone tells you it is going nicely after which …,” Hathaway informed ET.
In a video selling Sunday night time’s broadcast, greatest 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 one 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 greatest director.)
The Hollywood Reporter known as being the Oscars host “the least needed 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 known as homophobic.
The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences ended up going with out 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 Kimmel2022: Regina Corridor, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes2021: No host2020: No host2019: No host2018: Jimmy Kimmel2017: Jimmy Kimmel2016: Chris Rock2015: Neil Patrick Harris2014: Ellen DeGeneres2013: Seth MacFarlane2012: Billy Crystal2011: James Franco and Anne Hathaway
2010: Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin2009: Hugh Jackman2008: Jon Stewart2007: Ellen DeGeneres2006: Jon Stewart2005: Chris Rock2004: Billy Crystal2003: Steve Martin2002: Whoopi Goldberg2001: Steve Martin2000: Billy Crystal1999: Whoopi Goldberg
1998: Billy Crystal1997: Billy Crystal1996: Whoopi Goldberg1995: David Letterman1994: Whoopi Goldberg1993: Billy Crystal1992: Billy Crystal1991: Billy Crystal1990: Billy Crystal1989: No host1988: Chevy Chase1987: Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan1986: Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams1985: 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 Turner1984: Johnny Carson1983: Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore and Richard Pryor
1982: Johnny Carson1981: Johnny Carson1980: Johnny Carson1979: Johnny Carson
1978: Bob Hope1977: Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda and Richard Pryor1976: Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal and Robert Shaw1975: Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra1974: John Huston, David Niven, Burt Reynolds and Diana Ross1973: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston and Rock Hudson
1972: Sammy Davis Jr., Helen Hayes, Alan King and Jack Lemmon1971: No host1970: No host1969: No host1968: Bob Hope
1967: Bob Hope1966: Bob Hope1965: Bob Hope1964: Jack Lemmon1963: Frank Sinatra
1962: Bob Hope1961: Bob Hope1960: Bob Hope1959: Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Tony Randall and Mort Sahl1958: Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, David Niven, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart and Donald Duck1957: Jerry Lewis, with Celeste Holm in New York1956: Jerry Lewis, with Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz in New York1955: Bob Hope, with Thelma Ritter in New York1954: Donald O’Connor, with Fredric March in New York
1953: Bob Hope, with Conrad Nagel in New York1952: Danny Kaye1951: Fred Astaire1950: Paul Douglas1949: Robert Montgomery1948: No host1947: Jack Benny1946: Bob Hope and James Stewart1945: John Cromwell and Bob Hope1944: Jack Benny1943: Bob Hope1942: Bob Hope
1941: Bob Hope1940: Bob Hope1939: Frank Capra1938: Bob Burns1937: George Jessel1936: Frank Capra1935: Irvin S. Cobb1934: Will Rogers1932: Conrad Nagel1931: Lawrence Grant1930: Conrad Nagel1930: William C. DeMille1929: Douglas Fairbanks and William C. DeMille
Who has been the very best 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 fake to relate celebrities’ inner-most ideas because the digicam closed in on completely different stars within the viewers.
British newspaper the Unbiased 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 stated after receiving a gold medal from the academy’s president.
In 2020, Vogue included Whoopi Goldberg amongst its listing of the seven greatest 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 stated.
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 government producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan calling Kimmel “one of many all-time nice Oscars hosts.”
Kimmel informed leisure information outlet Deadline that ABC — which has televised the Oscars for many years and broadcasts Kimmel’s late-night present — and Kramer needed him to host once more. Kimmel stated Kramer’s enthusiasm performed a component in his choice.
“I imply he actually needed me, and he needed my spouse Molly (McNearney) to government produce, and he even needed her to government produce if I wasn’t internet hosting the present, and you understand, that stuff finally means one thing,” Kimmel stated.
Kimmel additionally left the door open to probably coming again for a fifth time.
“I might by no means be so presumptuous as to imagine that they’d need me again yr after yr after yr,” Kimmel informed Deadline, “however this yr, they needed me, they usually requested me, and so, I am undoubtedly going to do that one.”
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