Jimmy Kimmel Hosting 2023 Oscars: Meet All The Stars Who’ve Hosted Over The Years

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Jimmy Kimmel is acceptable to big the 95th Academy Awards connected March 12, 2023. This volition beryllium the 3rd clip that the celebrated comedian and late-night speech amusement big hosts the Oscars. He antecedently took connected the relation arsenic big successful 2017 and 2018. Jimmy was announced arsenic big for the 2023 Academy Awards connected November 7, 2022, 4 months earlier the star-studded amusement is acceptable to aerial connected ABC.

The Academy Awards resumed hiring hosts for the amusement past twelvemonth with Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall, after 3 consecutive years of nary hosts. The 2019 Academy Awards made past arsenic going host-free for the archetypal clip since 1989. It wasn’t primitively planned that way. Kevin Hart was antecedently enlisted for the gig, but earlier long, Twitter users began resurfacing years-old homophobic tweets. Kevin past stepped down from the relation amidst the backlash against him and nary 1 stepped successful to instrumentality the gig. The amusement went connected without a host to shepherd the exhausting 3 to 4 hr telecast on for the adjacent 2 years, until hosts returned for the 2022 Academy Awards wherever Will Smith infamously slapped Chris Rock.

The 2023 Academy Awards volition observe the champion successful movie that was released this year, arsenic Jimmy entertains the assemblage and everyone other watching astatine location with his monologue and expected skits. Here’s a database of stars who took connected Oscar hosting duties implicit the years to varying degrees of success.

Jimmy Kimmel: 2017, 2018, & 2023

ABC was pleased with the network’s precocious nighttime speech amusement host’s show successful 2017, particularly however helium handled the debacle of La La Land incorrectly being named Best Picture implicit the existent victor Moonlight. It earned Jimmy Kimmel a 2nd spell arsenic big successful backmost to backmost ceremonies, returning successful 2018. Thanks to his location basal successful Hollywood and his choky knit ellipse of A-list friends, Jimmy was close astatine location successful beforehand of the starry Oscars audience. It besides helped that Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s caput writer — and Jimmy’s woman — Molly McNearney took implicit the telecast’s penning duties to support the show’s wit existent and hip.

For the 2023 Academy Awards, Jimmy volition big portion his woman Molly volition enforcement nutrient the amusement with showrunners Glenn Weiss and Richy Kirshner. “Being invited to big the Oscars for a 3rd clip is either a large grant oregon a trap,” Jimmy said successful a statement. “Either way, I americium grateful to the Academy for asking maine truthful rapidly aft everyone bully said no.”

Amy Schumer, Regina Hall & Wanda Sykes: 2022

They conscionable person to bash amended than past year's hosts… 😉

Catch @MoreReginaHall, @amyschumer and @iamwandasykes big the #Oscars LIVE Sunday, March 27 connected @ABCNetwork! pic.twitter.com/inzA0r0ef5

— The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 10, 2022

Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall were the co-hosts of the 94th Academy Awards connected March 27, 2022. The trio did an astonishing occupation astatine hosting the show, but things went haywire erstwhile Will Smith got connected signifier and slapped Chris Rock, who made a gag astir Will’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith‘s bald head. Still, Amy, Wanda, and Regina were praised for their show astatine the 2022 Oscars.

Chris Rock: 2005 and 2016

Chris Rock had the unenviable task of hosting successful 2016, the twelvemonth that determination were zero nominations for actors of color, astatine the 88th Academy Awards. As a result, the Black comedian had to code the #OscarsSoWhite elephant successful the room. He ripped into the taxable successful his monologue, jokingly referring to the ceremonial arsenic the “White People’s Choice Awards.” He added that successful years past determination hadn’t been an uproar implicit the deficiency of diverseness due to the fact that “we had existent things to protest; we’re excessively engaged being raped and lynched to attraction astir who won champion cinematographer.” He besides added, “This year, successful the In Memoriam package, it’s conscionable going to beryllium achromatic radical that were changeable by the cops connected their mode to the movies.”

Neil Patrick Harris: 2015

Neil Patrick Harris was already a seasoned of hosting respective Tony Awards telecasts, and brought his opus and creation skills to the Oscars. Actress Anna Kendrick joined him onstage for a lively philharmonic opening number, and helium seemed to bask hosting the show. That was, until helium work Twitter afterwards. NPH aboriginal appeared connected Jimmy Kimmel Live and said he’d ne'er big the amusement again aft looking astatine Twitter and uncovering “Uniform hatred,” of his hosting duties. He went connected to archer the Huffington Post, “I don’t cognize that my household nor my psyche could instrumentality it. It’s a beast. It was amusive to cheque disconnected the list, but for the magnitude of clip spent and the understandable opinionated response, I don’t cognize that it’s a delightful equilibrium to bash each twelvemonth oregon adjacent again.”

Ellen DeGeneres: 2007 and 2014

Back erstwhile daytime speech amusement big Ellen DeGeneres was still known as the “Queen of Nice,” the upbeat comedian was asked backmost successful 2014 aft hosting the amusement successful 2007. Rather than poke amusive astatine the Oscars oregon bring immoderate arguable jokes, she mixed and mingled with her A-list beforehand enactment audience. Ellen infamously gathered Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Bradley Cooper, Lupita Nyong’o and much unneurotic for a monolithic personage selfie. She aboriginal had boxes of pizzas brought successful which she served up to the aforesaid bare movies stars, with Brad Pitt adjacent helping walk retired insubstantial napkins and plates.

Seth McFarlane: 2013

Add Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane to the database of hosts who ne'er privation the occupation again. He did a disastrous and misogynistic opus and creation fig called “We Saw Your Boobs,” wherever Seth named disconnected actresses and the movies wherever they appeared topless. Seth besides made a gag astir Kim Kardashian’s “dark facial hair.” He aboriginal told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s a format that’s astir arsenic existent arsenic the 1950s assortment amusement format. There’s ever an effort to marque it absorbing and breathtaking to viewers who are utilized to a precise antithetic amusement scenery successful the modern era, and it’s often times fitting a quadrate peg successful a circular hole. So it’s not an casual job, and I’m not amazed that they person a pugnacious clip uncovering takers.”

Billy Crystal: 2012 positive 8 different times arsenic host

After the full catastrophe that was Anne Hathaway and James Franco’s Oscars co-hosting duties successful 2011, the Academy brought backmost “safe” stalwart Billy Crystal, aft their archetypal prime Eddie Murphy withdrew from the gig. He reigned arsenic the big of the amusement 7 times betwixt 1990 and 2000, and was a acquainted and beloved beingness for the assemblage and viewers. But Billy played it excessively harmless to the constituent of being boring. Washington Post critic Hank Stuever wrote that Billy “seemed to beryllium overseeing a cruise vessel meal amusement designed to entreaty to the over-50 question club,” adding that, “Early on, it deed the rocks and started to list. Almost everyone drowned.”

Anne Hathaway and James Franco: 2011

Anne Hathaway unluckily had a ace unsmooth spell astatine it erstwhile she co-hosted the amusement with James Franco successful 2011. The 2 were ill-matched acknowledgment to Franco’s utter deficiency of enthusiasm, which Hathaway past tried to overcompensate for with a ton of energy. And the worst portion is the Ocean’s 8 prima didn’t adjacent privation to big to statesman with! “Can I crockery immoderate tea?” Hathaway told People, successful an interrogation published Feb. 10, 2019. “I turned that gig down, and James is the 1 that convinced maine to bash it.” She past added that she would person apt been good if Franco admitted it was each a joke. “If he’d turned astir and said ‘I’m pranking you close now.’ I deliberation I would person been good with it. I would’ve been like, ‘That sucks, but it’s epic,” she said. “When each the particulate settled, I was conscionable like, you gotta beryllium kidding me. Your archetypal instinct is usually the close one, and each the reasons wherefore I turned it down came true,”

The 94th Academy Awards aerial Sunday, March 27th astatine 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST connected ABC.

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