The 2025 awards season is on its way in, and as the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences prepares for the 97th Oscars, speculation is mounting as to who will be next year’s host. The 2024 awards season was a mixed bag on the hosting front, as Jo Koy was at the Golden Globes and Jimmy Kimmel as the master of ceremonies for the 96th Academy Awards. Now, the pressure is on to find a new emcee that both fits the bill and wants the gig.
John Mulaney, Steve Martin and Kimmel have been floated as possible hosts for the 2025 Oscars — but each one has publicly turned down the opportunity. Here’s why. Kimmel appeared on the Aug.
12 episode of the , hosted by Gavin Newsom, Marshawn Lynch and Doug Hendrickson, where he opened up on his decision to turn down hosting the 2025 Oscars. “It’s hard. It’s a lot of work and [ ] suffers a little bit to be honest, your nightly show, because when I’m focused on the Oscars, I’m less focused on the show.
I just decided I didn’t want to deal with that this year. It was just too much last year,” he explained. “I did two years, it went well.
I did another two years, it went well. I figured I’d take a little break.” Kimmel said he was bad at balancing the hosting duties with his late-night responsibilities.
“I’m all in when it comes to something like the Oscars, I think about it in the morning and at night, and I have ideas, I want to work on them, and then my nightly show seems like a nuisance sometimes,” he said..