Conan O’Brien Will Return to Host the Oscars for Third Consecutive Year

Guess they weren’t kidding with that “Oscars big for life” sketch astatine past year’s show. Conan O’Brien is officially backmost to big adjacent year’s Oscars, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday. The 99th Annual Academy Awards volition beryllium the 3rd clip that O’Brien has hosted the ceremony’s broadcast.

Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan volition besides instrumentality arsenic the show’s enforcement producers for the 4th consecutive year.

“We are thrilled to beryllium moving again with Conan, Raj, Katy, Jeff and Mike for the 99th Oscars,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor said successful a statement.

Conan O'Brien hosting the 98th Oscars. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

“They are an unthinkable squad and person produced specified captivating, entertaining and heartfelt shows implicit the past 2 years. We are truthful grateful for their ongoing concern arsenic we grant our planetary movie assemblage -- and we look guardant to Conan superbly starring the solemnisation with his brilliance and humor.”

“Conan has created singular vigor astir the Oscars,” said Craig Erwich, President of Disney Television Group. “His singular comedic dependable makes Hollywood’s biggest nighttime 1 of the astir entertaining celebrations of the year. We’re arrogant to invited him backmost and look guardant to what helium and the producing squad present next.”

The 98th Academy Awards saw One Battle After Another triumph Best Picture and Michael B. Jordan received his archetypal Academy Award arsenic Best Actor for Sinners. The ceremonial – which included the 7th necktie successful Oscars past – was not without controversies, specified arsenic erstwhile the KPop Demon Hunters composer was abruptly played disconnected oregon the In Memoriam series omitting a slew of notable radical from the broadcast version.

The Academy precocious altered their rules up of adjacent year’s Oscars, including updating their positions connected AI and allowing aggregate nominations for the aforesaid histrion successful the aforesaid category.

The 99th Oscars volition aerial unrecorded connected ABC and Hulu connected Sunday, March 14, 2027, astatine 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.