Host Jimmy Kimmel has been tapped to host the 95th Academy Awards on March 12, 2023. Known for his biting humor, the comedian has already done the job twice, in 2017 and 2018.
By choosing Jimmy Kimmel, the American channel ABC is opting for security, and a figure he knows well: it is on this channel that his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!It has been on the air since 2003. Every year, Kimmel welcomes the winners of the ceremony to his set for their first interview after their victory.
Jimmy Kimmel will have the daunting task of rallying the plummeting audiences of a show that interests fewer and fewer viewers. Kimmel succeeds Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall, who hosted the trio last year.
Right in the Oscar campaign
The 94th ceremony was the scene of an event that has already entered the history of the Oscars: a few minutes before receiving the Oscar for best actor, Will Smith got on stage to slap Chris Rock. The comedian had just made fun of the shaved head of his wife, who suffers from alopecia.
The Oscar campaign is currently in full swing in the United States. Several films hope to get nominations at the beginning of the year: the drama Tar with Cate Blanchett She saidabout the Weinstein case, The sonthe new Florian Zeller, or even The Fabelmansautobiographical fiction by Steve Spielberg.
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