Jimmy Kimmel Hints At Late-Night Retirement

Jimmy Kimmel may not be "live" for much longer. He has hosted his late-night show for over 21 years. Now at 56 years old, Kimmel has outlasted any other late-night talk show host currently on the air. Speaking with the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday (February 20), Kimmel reflected on his success as a host, winning a Critics Choice Award for best talk show in 2018. Though he expressed his humble gratitude for his job, he's just as "surprised as anyone could be in this position," he told the publication.

As we previously reported, Kimmel expressed he wanted to retire before. Before the writers and actors strikes, he was "very intent on retiring." The writer and producer added that he likes getting the summer off from his show each year, but he likes it better when he’s “getting paid” to do so. In his new interview with the LA Times, Kimmel expressed, "I think this is my final contract." Though he's hosting the upcoming Oscars for the fourth time, he admits he hates saying he's retiring, as people think he is "the boy who cried wolf." Each time he thinks he is retiring, it ends up not being the case. With a little more than two years left in his contract, Kimmel thinks it will be "enough" to retire.

The Brooklyn native doesn't know exactly what he will do when Jimmy Kimmel Live! comes to an end, but even as he will be closer to 60, he feels like he will keep busy with his hobbies. He lists cooking, drawing, and sculpting as a few things he would occupy his time with. Even with being a talk show host and hosting the Oscars multiple times, Kimmel admits he did everything he could to avoid being the center of attention and still doesn't like being the "sole guy." He also states that he won't be doing any stand-up after he retires from late-night. Reiterating that he is uncomfortable with having all eyes on him, Kimmel would rather be a "team player" and work on other people's projects.

With the 96th annual Academy Awards taking place on March 10, nominations for the coveted awards show have been announced Tuesday morning (January 23).

Jack Quaid and Zazie Beetz announced the nominees live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. In addition to the Oscars airing live on March 10 from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, the ceremony will start an hour earlier at 7 p.m. ET. Jimmy Kimmel is returning as the host for the second year in a row, his fourth time hosting the event overall. Watch the show on ABC, streaming on Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV, or on ABC.com and the ABC app by authenticating with your provider.

Fantastic films are nominated for this year's Oscars, with Oppenheimer, Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, The Holdovers, The Color Purple, Maestro, American Fiction, and Past Lives taking a lot of nominations in the major categories. This year, 321 feature films were eligible for the Oscars, and 265 of those qualified for the Best Picture category. For the first time in history, three of the ten movies nominated for best picture were directed by a female, the most in Oscars history. Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and Celine Song’s Past Lives are battling it out against directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Bradley Cooper. Only four years have included films directed by women for best picture: Lone Scherfig’s An Education, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, Siân Heder’s CODA, and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Three of these women-directed films won best picture in their respective Oscar-nominated years: The Hurt Locker, Nomadland, and CODA.

Take a look below at this year's Oscar nominations:

Sterling K. Brown -- American Fiction

Robert De Niro -- Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr. -- Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling -- Barbie

Charles Melton -- May December

Mark Ruffalo -- Poor Things

Emily Blunt — Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks — The Color Purple

America Ferrera -- Barbie

Jodie Foster -- Nyad

Da’Vine Joy Randolph — The Holdovers

"The Fire Inside" -- Flamin' Hot

"I'm Just Ken" -- Barbie

"It Never Went Away" -- American Symphony

"Wahzhahzhe" -- Killers of the Flower Moon

"What Was I Made For?" -- Barbie

The Boy and the Heron

Elemental

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Bradley Cooper -- Maestro

Colman Domingo -- Rustin

Paul Giamatti -- The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy -- Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright -- American Fiction

Annette Bening -- Nyad

Lily Gladstone -- Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Huller -- Anatomy of a Fall

Carey Mulligan -- Maestro

Emma Stone -- Poor Things

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

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