Conan O'Brien to host 2025 Oscars after Jimmy Kimmel 'declined to return'

Conan O’Brien has been announced arsenic the big for the 97th yearly Academy Awards.

The erstwhile chat amusement host, 61, volition helm Hollywood’s biggest nighttime for the archetypal clip successful March 2025.

Demonstrating his signature deadpan humour, O’Brien said of the gig: “America demanded it and present it’s happening: Taco Bell’s caller Cheesy Chalupa Supreme.”

He added: "In different news, I’m hosting the Oscars."

Comedian John Mulaney, who was a presenter astatine the 2024 ceremony, besides allegedly passed connected the gig.

O’Brien has emceed different high-profile awards shows, similar the Emmy Awards successful 2002 and 2006 and the White House Correspondents’ meal successful 1995 and 2013.

He is champion known for hosting the late-night speech shows Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, and Conan.

He started his vocation arsenic a writer for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons.

Discussing O’Brien’s hosting duties, Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang said they are "thrilled and honored to person the incomparable" presenter connected board.

“He is the cleanable idiosyncratic to assistance pb our planetary solemnisation of movie with his superb humor, his emotion of movies, and his unrecorded TV expertise," they continued.

"His singular quality to link with audiences volition bring viewers unneurotic to bash what the Oscars bash champion - grant the spectacular films and filmmakers of this year.”

A big of celebrated faces were reportedly approached to big the night, Deadline reported successful October.

Stars similar Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, and Dwayne Johnson were each said to beryllium successful the moving to beforehand the televised ceremony.

Previous Oscars hosts see Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, David Letterman, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, Hugh Jackman, and Neil Patrick Harris.

The 2025 Academy Awards will beryllium held astatine the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences connected March 2 – a week earlier than the 2024 ceremony.