The American comedian Jimmy Kimmel will host the upcoming Oscar ceremony, which will be held for the 95th time, the American Film Academy announced today (Monday).
This will be the third time the host of the hit late-night show will host the ceremony, having done so in 2018 and 2017.
In doing so, he joined Steve Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corden Nigel and David Niven who have also hosted the ceremony three times.
Before him are Whoopi Goldberg and Jack Lemmon (4 times), Johnny Carson (5 times), Billy Crystal (9 times) and Bob Hope (11 times).
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Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars, in 2018, photo: AP.
"Being invited to host the Oscars for the third time is either a great honor or a trap," Kimmel said in an amusing message after the announcement.
"In any case, I thank the academy for making me the offer so quickly after all the other good instructors refused."
The moderator's words come against the background of rumors that have recently circulated in Hollywood, according to which the producers of the ceremony have turned to Chris Rock, who has already hosted the ceremony twice before and who, as I remember, during the last ceremony was slapped in front of the whole world by Will Smith, with a request to host the upcoming ceremony, which will take place on March 12, 2023 , but he refused it.
The first time that Kimmel, who previously hosted the Emmy Awards ceremony three times (the last time was in 2020, at the height of the corona epidemic), was the host at the Oscars, was in 2017, when he hosted the 2016 film ceremony, which will forever be remembered as a ceremony where a mistake was made When the wrong film ("La La Land") was announced as the winner of the Best Picture award, instead of the film that actually won it ("Moonlight").
Jimmy Kimmel's opening monologue at the 2018 Oscars
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