Jimmy Kimmel will host the 2018 Academy Awards.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! host Jimmy Kimmel has agreed to host the 96th Academy Awards for the fourth time and for the second year in a row. The ceremony will be broadcast on ABC on March 10.

He emceed Hollywood’s Biggest Night this past March, in addition to hosting it in 2017 and 2018. After the latter show attracted then-record low viewership, the event went hostless in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

The epidemic had a significant impact on the Oscars, which were reduced in 2021 and received the lowest ratings ever.

Kimmel handled the infamous “envelope-gate” incident in 2017, in which Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway proclaimed La La Land as the Best Picture winner despite receiving the wrong envelope.

This resulted in an embarrassing correction when one of the film’s producers retrieved the correct envelope and showed that Moonlight was the genuine victor.

Kimmel was there in the middle of the pandemonium, right there on stage. But, the next year, he returned with Beatty and Dunaway to award Best Picture once more.

The WGA strike kept Kimmel and his fellow late-night hosts off the air for several months, but when the shows returned last month, Kimmel’s ABC show got the most viewers.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! had its highest-rated season opening in six years when it returned on October 2.

He has hosted the late-night chat show since its inception in 2003.