Santa Fe New Mexican

Jimmy Kimmel is back to host 90th Oscars

- By Jay Bobbin

Though Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t expect another misstep in the announceme­nt of an Academy Award winner, he concedes he wouldn’t mind if it happened. round Land” – instead After specified the declared last of world, the year’s in best movie the with error envelope, picture “La actually heard La “Moonlight” host Kimmel – returns ABC late-night for the second consecutiv­e year to preside over the network’s broadcast of the 90th Oscar ceremony Sunday, March 4. Presented again from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, the event is sure to reflect the new consciousn­ess about sexual misconduct that has rocked the entertainm­ent industry in recent months. However, Kimmel also wants the occasion to be the fun that it’s always been for movie lovers. make “I think the people it’s important in the room to laugh,” he reasons, “and if the people in the room laugh, the audience at home will at least ... you know, we’ve been conditione­d to react to a laugh track since probably the ’50s. And I think it’s important for the audience at home to hear people laughing, maybe even more important than making them laugh themselves.” Regarding the awards themselves, vote counter and envelope guard Pricewater­houseCoope­rs has instituted several new rules to prevent last year’s now-legendary wrong-winner gaffe from reoccurrin­g. happens be Still, fired, that Kimmel right? works again, If muses, literally at it ABC happens should “If everyone it one time, that’s, I think, understand­able. But if it happens a second time, no one (there) is competent enough to be running a television show or network ... so I don’t think it’s going to happen again. If it did, I would have to admit, it would tickle me deeply.” Here are the nominees in several major categories for the 90th Oscars: Best picture: “Call Me by Your Name”; “Darkest Hour”; “Dunkirk”; “Get Out”; “Lady Bird”; “Phantom Thread”; “The Post”; “The Shape of Water”; “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Best director: Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread”; Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”; Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”; Christophe­r Nolan, “Dunkirk”; Jordan Peele, “Get Out” Best actor: Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”; Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”; Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”; Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”; Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” Best actress: Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”; Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”; Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”; Meryl Streep, “The Post” Best Dafoe, supporting “The Florida actor: Project”; Willem Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”; Christophe­r Plummer, “All the Money in the World”; Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Best supporting actress: Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”; Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”; Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”; Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”; Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”

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