Jimmy Kimmel will not be again as subsequent 12 months’s Oscars host, and John Mulaney additionally handed on the gig.
Kimmel, 56, has hosted the Academy Awards 4 instances, together with the ceremony held earlier this 12 months. Nonetheless, he declined to return as emcee on the 2025 Oscars, PEOPLE can affirm.
Mulaney, 41, who hosted the Academy’s 14th Governors Awards in January, was approached to be host however declined, a supply tells PEOPLE. The comic was a memorable presenter on the 2024 ceremony, performing a Kevin Costner-approved bit about Subject of Goals.
Costner praised Mulaney’s hilarious second onstage, beforehand telling PEOPLE, “I could not imagine that man. Superb. I watched it a second time… What an opportunity, as a result of there’s all the time individuals within the Oscars attempting to hurry you. And he went quick. However what he stated, I used to be very touched by it. I ought to speak to him as a result of I used to be actually impressed. He was a genius.”
Puck was first to report the information.
Reps for Kimmel and Mulaney didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The 97th annual Oscars shall be held on Sunday, March 2. It’s going to be broadcast dwell at 7 p.m. ET on ABC from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
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Kimmel hosted the occasion in 2017 and 2018 earlier than it went host-less from 2019 to 2021. The 2022 ceremony had Regina Corridor, Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer as hosts. Kimmel got here again for 2023, and his 2024 outing nabbed the telecast’s highest scores in 4 years with 19.5 million individuals tuning in. He is additionally the host of the ABC recreation present Who Needs to Be a Millionaire.
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The late-night host labored together with his spouse Molly McNearney, the present’s co-executive producer, on pulling off his Oscars stints.
He beforehand instructed PEOPLE about getting ready for this previous 12 months’s ceremony, “The massive problem all the time is attempting to maintain the present shifting, so it is a matter of choosing your spots and popping in while you’re wanted and staying out of the image while you’re not.”
