Following final 12 months’s three-host ceremony with Amy Schumer, Regina Corridor and Wanda Sykes, the Oscars is returning to a extra conventional search for 2023, with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel returning for a 3rd stint as host.

Kimmel, after all, first hosted in 2017, when the Greatest Image class was erroneously introduced for La La Land earlier than being corrected and handed to the Moonlight staff because the La La Land producers had been on stage giving their speech. Regardless of that, he agreed to return for 2018.

“Being invited to host the Oscars for a 3rd time is both an incredible honor or a entice,” Kimmel says in a press release. “Both method, I’m grateful to the Academy for asking me so shortly after everybody good mentioned no.”

The Academy and producers Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner are naturally not commenting on any potential prior selections, although rumours circulated that they might have requested Chris Rock, one half of final 12 months’s notorious Oscar ceremony incident.

Subsequent 12 months’s occasion would be the ninety fifth Oscars ceremony. Nominations can be introduced on twenty fourth January, with the occasion itself taking place on twelfth March.

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