A few of Jimmy Kimmel‘s jokes on the opening of the ninety fifth Academy Awards concerned two males who weren’t even within the theater.
After noting that Avatar: The Means of Water director James Cameron — who wasn’t nominated for his blockbuster sequel — wasn’t in attendance, Kimmel quipped to the Oscars viewers: “How does the Academy not nominate the man who directed Avatar? What do they assume he’s? A lady?” He additionally joked that “You realize a present is simply too lengthy when even James Cameron” — whose motion pictures clock in at two-plus hours — “can’t sit via it.”
The gang gathered on the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood additionally heard Kimmel poke enjoyable at High Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise, who additionally wasn’t there regardless of his film’s nomination for Greatest Image. The Late Evening With Jimmy Kimmel! host commented on Cruise, who’s a Scientologist, and his High Gun shirtless scene: “L. Ron Hubba-hubba, what I’m saying?” He then identified that Cameron and Cruise, who’d each advocated for audiences to return to cinemas within the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, weren’t there to rejoice the business’s largest night time.
“The 2 guys who insisted we go to the theater didn’t come to the theater!” he stated.
Kimmel additionally addressed final yr’s most controversial Oscars second: when Greatest Actor nominee (and eventual winner) Will Smith stepped on stage and slapped Chris Rock after the comic made a joke about Smith’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, and her baldness. (Learn extra about that joke, and its reception, here.)
The night marked the third time that Kimmel served as Oscars host, following his stints in 2017 and 2018.
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