Jimmy Kimmel to return as Oscars host
“If you think we screwed up the ending this year, wait until you see what we have planned for the 90th anniversary show!” Kimmel said in a statement, a reference to the bungled best-picture announcement at the culmination of the most recent ceremony.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also said the producers of the last telecast, Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd, would return.
The academy typically selects producers in the fall, with a host named after that, typically following a mad scramble to find someone willing to do it whom the academy can agree on.
While the academy has recently hired the same producers in consecutive years, the job of host has gone to a different entertainer every year since 1997 and 1998, when Billy Crystal hosted back-to-back ceremonies.