John Mulaney also ruled out a possible invitation
Jimmy Kimmel and John Mulaney rejected a possible invitation to present the edition of Oscar next year, confirmed the Variety.
Kimmelwho hosted the ceremony four times — in 2017, 2018, 2023 and 2024 —, turned down the post at the end of the first half of this year. Already Mulaneywho also presented the Governors Awardshas a busy schedule with several projects. The talk show Everybody’s in LAfor example, may be renewed by Netflix.
Whoopi Goldberg and Jack Lemmon were also hosts of the Oscar four times. Johnny Carson held the role five times; Billy Crystalnine, and Bob Hope an incredible 19 times.
Check out the full list of masters of ceremonies Oscar (via CBS News):
- 2023: Jimmy Kimmel
- 2022: Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes
- 2021: No presenter
- 2020: No presenter
- 2019: No presenter
- 2018: Jimmy Kimmel
- 2017: Jimmy Kimmel
- 2016: Chris Rock
- 2015: Neil Patrick Harris
- 2014: Ellen DeGeneres
- 2013: Seth MacFarlane
- 2012: Billy Crystal
- 2011: James Franco and Anne Hathaway
- 2010: Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin
- 2009: Hugh Jackman
- 2008: Jon Stewart
- 2007: Ellen DeGeneres
- 2006: Jon Stewart
- 2005: Chris Rock
- 2004: Billy Crystal
- 2003: Steve Martin
- 2002: Whoopi Goldberg
- 2001: Steve Martin
- 2000: Billy Crystal
- 1999: Whoopi Goldberg
- 1998: Billy Crystal
- 1997: Billy Crystal
- 1996: Whoopi Goldberg
- 1995: David Letterman
- 1994: Whoopi Goldberg
- 1993: Billy Crystal
- 1992: Billy Crystal
- 1991: Billy Crystal
- 1990: Billy Crystal
- 1989: No presenter
- 1988: Chevy Chase
- 1987: Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan
- 1986: Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams
- 1985: Jack Lemmon, with co-hosts Candice Bergen, Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, Gregory Hines, William Hurt, Amy Irving, Diana Ross, Tom Selleck and Kathleen Turner
- 1984: Johnny Carson
- 1983: Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore and Richard Pryor
- 1982: Johnny Carson
- 1981: Johnny Carson
- 1980: Johnny Carson
- 1979: Johnny Carson
- 1978: Bob Hope
- 1977: Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda and Richard Pryor
- 1976: Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal and Robert Shaw
- 1975: Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra
- 1974: John Huston, David Niven, Burt Reynolds and Diana Ross
- 1973: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston and Rock Hudson
- 1972: Sammy Davis Jr., Helen Hayes, Alan King and Jack Lemmon
- 1971: No presenter
- 1970: No presenter
- 1969: No presenter
- 1968: Bob Hope
- 1967: Bob Hope
- 1966: Bob Hope
- 1965: Bob Hope
- 1964: Jack Lemmon
- 1963: Frank Sinatra
- 1962: Bob Hope
- 1961: Bob Hope
- 1960: Bob Hope
- 1959: Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Tony Randall and Mort Sahl
- 1958: Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, David Niven, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart and Donald Duck
- 1957: Jerry Lewis, with Celeste Holm in New York
- 1956: Jerry Lewis, with Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz in New York
- 1955: Bob Hope, with Thelma Ritter in New York
- 1954: Donald O’Connor, with Fredric March in New York
- 1953: Bob Hope with Conrad Nagel in New York
- 1952: Danny Kaye
- 1951: Fred Astaire
- 1950: Paul Douglas
- 1949: Robert Montgomery
- 1948: No presenter
- 1947: Jack Benny
- 1946: Bob Hope and James Stewart
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- 1944: Jack Benny
- 1943: Bob Hope
- 1942: Bob Hope
- 1941: Bob Hope
- 1940: Bob Hope
- 1939: Frank Capra
- 1938: Bob Burns
- 1937: George Jessel
- 1936: Frank Capra
- 1935: Irvin S. Cobb
- 1934: Will Rogers
- 1932: Conrad Nagel
- 1931: Lawrence Grant
- 1930: Conrad Nagel
- 1930: William C. DeMille
- 1929: Douglas Fairbanks and William C. DeMille
Source: Rollingstone
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