The Oscars job that's lost its shine: Jimmy Kimmel TURNS DOWN offer to return as host in 2025 and John Mulaney refuses offer too after controversies and ratings struggles

Just 4 months aft nan Oscars aired connected ABC, nan Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is already trying to fastener down nan 2025 host... to nary avail of yet.

The Academy reportedly presented a hosting connection to Jimmy Kimmel, who has hosted 4 times including nan past 2 years, though he turned it down, via Puck.

Comedian John Mulaney, whose memorable recollection of Field of Dreams was 1 of this year's Oscar highlights, besides turned down a hosting offer.

This year's Oscars did bask a slight ratings bump this twelvemonth pinch 19.5 cardinal viewers, up conscionable 4% from 2023's 18.7 cardinal viewers, though it's still obscurity nan all-time grounds of 57.2 cardinal viewers successful 1998, nan twelvemonth Titanic won 11 Oscars including Best Picture.

While nan ratings person been ticking up each twelvemonth aft a grounds debased of 10.4 cardinal viewers successful 2021, they person yet to emergence moreover adjacent to pre-pandemic levels.

Kimmel has hosted nan Oscars successful 2017 and 2018, earlier nan Academy experimented pinch moving nan show pinch nary big successful 2019, 2020 and 2021.

A trio of comediennes - Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes - hosted successful 2022, earlier they went backmost to Kimmel for 2023 and 2024. 

Aside from his memorable Field of Dreams presentation, Mulaney hosted nan 14th Annual Governors Awards backmost successful January.

After Kimmel's 3rd clip hosting, he revealed successful a Los Angeles Times question and reply that he didn't deliberation he'd ever big again.

'I did not deliberation I would ever do it again. I did 2 of them, and they went good — thing crazy happened astatine 1 of them pinch a communicative I’ll person for nan remainder of my life,' he said, referring to nan Best Picture gaffe wherever La La Land was announced arsenic Best Picture alternatively of nan existent winner, Moonlight.

'I cognize really overmuch activity goes into [the Oscars], truthful I thought, "Yeah, I don’t needfully want to do this ever again,"' he added.

However, erstwhile deed blockbusters for illustration Barbie and Oppenheimer started getting awards buzz, he started having 2nd thoughts.

'I knew location was a movie that group had seen, and it conscionable makes nan occupation easier. I americium sitting successful a movie theatre watching Barbie and thinking, "Well, possibly I’ll do this again, because astatine slightest I person a constituent of reference pinch everyone,"' he said.

'I made a joke astir Moonlight that made it clear to maine that nan immense mostly of nan room had not seen nan movie, moreover though it won Best Picture,' Kimmel said of his first twelvemonth hosting successful 2017.

Academy CEO Bill Kramer was asked astir Kimmel's hosting duties and nan anticipation of Mulaney hosting successful a June question and reply pinch Variety.

'We are fortunate to person Jimmy [Kimmel], who helped create 1 of nan champion Oscars past year. John Mulaney besides did an unthinkable job,' Kramer said.   

'All I will opportunity is, pinch whomever hosts nan show moving forward, we want to proceed pinch this reside of celebration, respect, humor, and a awesome emotion of movies. We person immoderate awesome options,' he said.