Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the Oscars telecast for the second consecutive year, the film academy and ABC announced Tuesday.
The comedian joked about the best picture winner announcement mix-up at the recent Academy Awards ceremony in a Twitter post acknowledging his planned return.
“Thanks to the Academy for asking me to host the Oscars again (assuming I opened the right envelope),” he wrote.
In his official statement released by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the late-night talk show host said, “If you think we screwed up the ending this year, wait until you see what we have planned for the 90th anniversary show!”
Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd will return for a second year to produce the 90th Academy Awards ceremony on March 4 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, according to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
“Jimmy, Mike and Jennifer are truly an Oscar Dream Team,” she said. “Mike and Jennifer produced a beautiful show that was visually stunning. And Jimmy proved, from his opening monologue all the way through a finale we could never have imagined, that he is one of our finest hosts in Oscar history.”
In their statement, De Luca and Todd also referred to the Oscar flub heard around the world, when “La La Land” was mistakenly announced as the best picture winner instead of “Moonlight.”
“We always thought the idea that anything can happen on the Oscars was a cliche until we lived it,” they said.
