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Who is hosting the Oscars?

Who is the Oscars 2024 host? The Oscars 2024 host is Jimmy Kimmel, who previously hosted the Academy Awards in 2017, 2018, and 2023. “I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times,” the Jimmy Kimmel Live! star said in a statement, per Variety.

In a February 2024 interview with the LA Times, Kimmel admitted that he didn’t think he would host the Oscars for a fourth time. “I did not think I would ever do it again,” he said. “I did two of them, and they went well — something crazy happened at one of them with a story I’ll have for the rest of my life. I know how much work goes into them, so I thought, ‘Yeah, I don’t necessarily want to do this ever again.’”

The film that changed the late-night host’s mind was Joseph Kosinski’s 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick. “I knew there was a movie that people had seen, and it just makes the job easier,” he continued. “Then this year, I am sitting in a movie theater watching Barbie and thinking, ‘Well, maybe I’ll do this again, because at least I have a point of reference with everyone,'” he said, with the publication noting that the more popular the films are, the more references the audience will understand in his monologue. “I made a joke about ‘Moonlight’ that made it clear to me that the vast majority of the room had not seen the movie, even though it won best picture.”

Back when Kimmel was approached about hosting the Oscars for the first time, he knew he wasn’t the producer’s first choice, which he was okay with. Looking back, he said he was over-prepared for that first show in 2017. “I really rushed through my monologue,” he recalled. “I was nervous. But [afterward], I studied the tape and decided, ‘OK, I’m going to take my time with the monologue. I’m not going to race through it — if the show goes one minute long, I’m OK with that.’”

As for viewers who might be bothered by the bits or jokes he makes, Kimmel said there’s “nothing you could do about that” and it happens. He also explained that there’s an expectation that “the show is going to be classy and pristine.” He added, “I’m not always classy and pristine.”

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