“Nobody obtained hit whereas I used to be internet hosting the present”

The final time Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Oscars, he presided over Envelopegate — the notorious incident when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway misannounced la la nation as finest image moonlight. This 12 months, the late-night host is as soon as once more internet hosting the ceremony because the Oscars search to maneuver on from the second of notoriety that outlined final 12 months’s present: Will Smith beats Chris Rock.

And as Kimmel is keen on reminding everybody, even on the peak of the very best image disaster, he wasn’t dealt a beating. “No person obtained hit whereas I used to be internet hosting the present,” Kimmel mentioned jokes in a new interview with Good morning Americais Lara Spencer. “Everybody was good at my Oscars!”

Whereas the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences — the group that oversees the Academy Awards — would moderately put the slap on the again burner, Kimmel is aware of audiences on the Dolby Theater will be a part of thousands and thousands extra at house ready for his rendition the Smith/Rock feud. “I feel I’ve some good issues to say about it,” he teases Spencer. “It would come to everybody’s thoughts: everybody will likely be ready for this second. That is going to be a part of the present, however definitely not the main focus of the present.”

That is Kimmel’s third time internet hosting the Oscars, and he has a household connection to the 2023 ceremony: his spouse, Molly McNearney, is without doubt one of the govt producers. Meaning he is already obtained the heads-up who the proceedings will obtain definitive run lengthy this 12 months as all nominated classes are featured throughout the present, not like controversial election of last year to relegate some winners to a pre-show presentation.

“This present goes to final so lengthy that possibly you’ll be able to sleep within the morning,” Kimmel joked to Spencer. “There isn’t any concern, there’s a assure. These classes take up house. If the speeches aren’t 4 seconds lengthy, it’ll be a protracted night time. However hopefully not lengthy Night time.”

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Among the many highlights that Kimmel is personally trying ahead to is Rihanna’s efficiency by her Oscar-nominated actress Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally Tune – “Rihanna is more pregnant than the Super Bowl‘ he says – and having some enjoyable with it High Gun: Maverick Stern, Tom Cruise. “I all the time have enjoyable with Tom. There will likely be enjoyable with Tom on Sunday night time.”

And Kimmel may have much more enjoyable without his longtime enemy Matt Damon, within the viewers. “Matt Damon wasn’t invited and wasn’t nominated, and I hope he by no means will get invited or nominated once more,” he says of the The Bourne Id Star he beforehand screwed up final time he hosted the Oscars. “I feel he ought to come again when Will Smith comes back!”

The ninety fifth Academy Awards will air March 12 at 8pm ET/5pm PT