The 2025 Oscars needs a host, seeing as the man who has been at the helm the most over the last ten years is over it.
Jimmy Kimmel announced over the summer in 2024 that fans hoping to see him host the Academy Awards next year would be left wanting.
Kimmel is out, and so is the comedian most assumed was next in line for the gig.
So, who will host the Oscars in 2025? Honestly, we’re spoiled for choice and the new rumor is we might not get just one host next year, but TWO!
Jimmy Kimmel Gives Up Oscar Hosting Gig
The late night star has served as Oscars host four times in the last ten years, having emceed Hollywood’s biggest night in 2017, 2018, 2023, and 2024.
In an interview several months after the last show, Jimmy revealed he wouldn’t be returning in 2025. Turns out, the gig comes at too high of a price.
“I just decided I didn’t want to deal with that this year,” Kimmel said.
“It was just too much last year. You wind up pushing everything off till after the Oscars, and then you have to do everything you promised to do after the Oscars, after the Oscars. I did two years [2017 and 2018], it went well. I did another two years [2023 and 2024], it went well. I figured I’d take a little break.”
Most of what he “put off” had to do with his own show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, which for all his talk of leaving late night, he still loves it.
“I’m not good at balancing. I’m really not,” he added.
“It’s not one of my strengths. I’m all in when it comes to something like the Oscars. I think about it in the morning and at night, and when I have ideas I want to work on them, and then my nightly show seems like a nuisance. We have all our writers from the show working on the Oscars, so it distracts them. It’s fun to do, and it feels good when it went well, but, for me, just was too much, to do it three years in a row.”
John Mulaney Is Out Too
The rumor was, after Jimmy Kimmel passed on hosting the Oscars in 2025, that the next person approached was comedian John Mulaney.
One of the highlights of the 2024 show was John’s ‘Field of Dream’ bit while presenting the award for Best Sound. Plus, he also hosted the Governors Awards.
By all accounts, he was a shoe-in. But John turned the offer down, citing his tight schedule juggling so many different projects.
Fingers crossed that means “Everybody’s in L.A.” is getting renewed by Netflix!
