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ABC said that the late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has been “pre-empted indefinitely” after comments Kimmel made on the show in response to the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
After Jimmy Kimmel‘s monologue on Monday prompted remarks from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr today, Nexstar said that it will pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel Live! from its ABC stations “for the foreseeable future” following his remarks about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination. ABC quickly followed suit.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!will be preempted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson told Deadline today.
The monologue in question mocked Donald Trump over POTUS’ take on the NFL and TikTok, before Kimmel offered his blunt assessment of the aftermath of Kirk’s death: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” the host said.
Watch it here, with the Charlie Kirk section and Kimmel on “four year-old” Trump’s reaction starting at the 2:00 minute point:
On Tuesday, authorities charged Tyler Robinson, 22, in Kirk’s killing, along with a series of other charges. Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray said that Robinson’s mother said her son “had become more political and had started to lean more to the left, becoming more pro-gay and trans rights oriented.” Gray said that when Robinson’s father asked his son why he did it, Robinson “explained that there was too much evil, and the guy, referring to Charlie Kirk, spreads too much hate.”
Jimmy Kimmel poses in the press room with the award for host for a game show for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” during night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
The network’s decision Wednesday came Nexstar announced its ABC affiliates would pre-empt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” indefinitely over his comments.
“Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located,” said Andrew Alford, President of Nexstar’s broadcasting division.
A spokesperson for Kimmel did not immediately return a call for comment.
In his monologue on Tuesday, Kimmel said that “we hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
Kimmel, like CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert, has consistently been critical of President Donald Trump and many of his policies on his ABC show. CBS said this past summer that it was cancelling Colbert’s show at the end of this season for financial reasons, although some critics have wondered if his stance on Trump played a role.
ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say it would not air the show
Kimmel, the veteran late-night comic, made several comments about the reaction to Kirk’s assassination on his show Monday and Tuesday nights. He said that “many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.”
ABC, which has aired Kimmel’s late-night show since 2003, moved swiftly after Nexstar Communications Group said it would pull the show starting Wednesday.
Kimmel’s comments about Kirk’s death “are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse,” said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division. Nexstar operates 23 ABC affiliates.
There was no immediate comment from Kimmel.
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President Donald Trump celebrated ABC’s move on the social media site Truth Social, writing: “Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.”
He also targeted two other late-night hosts, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, and said they should be canceled too, calling them “two total losers.”
Fallon, Kimmel are ‘next’ after Colbert cancellation and Stern exit: Trump
Kimmel’s contract is up at the end of next season, which ends in May 2026.
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On Twitter Wednesday night, White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich posted: “Welcome to Consequence Culture. Normal, common sense Americans are no longer taking the b———- and companies like ABC are finally willing to do the right and reasonable thing.”
In his monologue on Monday, Kimmel said that “we hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
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Kimmel said that Trump’s response to Kirk’s death “is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?” He also said that FBI chief Kash Patel has handled the investigation into the murder “like a kid who didn’t read the book, BS’ing his way through an oral report.”
He returned to the topic on Tuesday night, mocking Vice President JD Vance’s performance as guest host for Kirk’s podcast.
He said Trump was “fanning the flames” by attacking people on the left.
“Which is it, are they a bunch of sissy pickleball players because they’re too scared to be hit by tennis balls, or a well-organized deadly team of commandos, because they can’t be both of those things.”
Authorities say Tyler Robinson, 22, who is charged with killing Kirk, grew up in a conservative household in southern Utah but was enmeshed in “leftist ideology.”
His parents told investigators he had turned politically left and pro-LGBTQ rights in the last year.
Utah records show he was registered as a voter, but not affiliated with either political party. His voter status is inactive, meaning he did not vote in two regular general elections.
He told his transgender partner that he targeted Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred.”
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Kimmel, like CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert, has consistently been critical of President Donald Trump and many of his policies on his ABC show.
CBS said this past summer that it was canceling Colbert’s show at the end of this season for financial reasons, although some critics have wondered if his stance on Trump played a role.
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The choice to pull Kimmel also follows Nexstar Media, which owns a large number of TV stations across the country, saying Wednesday that it would pre-empt Kimmel’s program due to a comment Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk on Monday’s show.
“Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located,” said Andrew Alford, President of Nexstar’s broadcasting division. “Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.”
Nextar is currently seeking FCC approval for a merger with the broadcast, digital media, and marketing company Tegna, writes CNBC.
In the past, Kimmel has not been shy about his antipathy for conservatives, particularly members of Trump’s administration and the president himself. He has attacked Trump as a “fragile snowflake” and “the dumbest criminal in the world,” among other epithets. Trump, in turn, has attacked Kimmel; most recently, he ripped into Kimmel’s performance as host at the 2024 Oscars. Onstage at the Dolby Theatre, Kimmel gleefully read a Truth Social post Trump published during the ceremony: “Has there ever been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars?” said Kimmel, quoting the president. “His opening was that of a less-than-average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be.”
Kimmel has hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live!—the first and as of now only late night series on ABC—since 2003. The network’s abrupt decision to yank him off the air comes exactly two months after CBS announced that it will cancel The Late Show—hosted by frequent Trump critic Stephen Colbert—after the 2025-2026 TV season.
Trump responded ecstatically to the news about Kimmel on Truth Social Wednesday night, writing, incorrectly, “The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.” (A source told CNBC that Kimmel has not been fired, and that “Disney plans to speak with him about what the comedian should say when he goes back on the air.”)
“That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC,” Trump continued—referring to Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.
Jimmy Kimmel has revealed that he has obtained his Italian citizenship amid his feud with U.S. President Donald Trump.
The late-night talk show host, 57, shared the news on The Sarah Silverman Podcast and said he is considering leaving the United States as they discussed the country in Trump’s second term.
“A lot of people I know are thinking about where are they going to get citizenship,” Silverman said.
“I did get Italian citizenship. I do have that,” Kimmel said. “What’s going on is … as bad as you thought it was gonna be, it’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable. I feel like it’s probably even worse than [Trump] would like it to be.”
Kimmel said that he thinks there’s a lot of people who are criticizing Trump now after previously supporting him in past elections.
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“There are a lot of people … now you see these clips of Joe Rogan saying, ‘Why’s he doing this? He shouldn’t be deporting people.’ People go, ‘F–k you, you supported him.’ I don’t buy into that. I don’t believe ‘F–k you, you supported him,’” Kimmel said. “I think the door needs to stay open. If you want to change your mind, that’s so hard to do.”
He continued, “If you want to admit you were wrong, that’s so hard and so rare to do. You are welcome.”
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host was making reference to podcaster Rogan who spoke out against Trump’s deportation policies in April, saying, “You’ve got to get scared that people who are not criminals are getting, like, lassoed up and deported and sent to El Salvador prisons.”
Fallon, Kimmel are ‘next’ after Colbert cancellation and Stern exit: Trump
During a press conference at the White House last Wednesday, Real America’s Voice reporter Brian Glenn asked Trump about reports that radio host Howard Stern may part ways with Sirius XM after his contract expires in the fall.
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Glenn went on to ask if the “hate Trump” comedy was losing popularity with American audiences.
In his response, Trump used the example of the recent cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and added that he believes Kimmel and Fallon are next.
“Well, it hasn’t worked,” Trump replied. “And it hasn’t worked, really, for a long time, and I would say pretty much from the beginning. Colbert has no talent. I mean, I could take anybody here. I could go outside in the beautiful streets and pick a couple of people that do just as well or better. They’d get higher ratings than he did. He’s got no talent.”
“Fallon has no talent. Kimmel has no talent. They’re next. They’re going to be going. I hear they’re going to be going. I don’t know, but I would imagine because they’d get — you know, Colbert has better ratings than Kimmel or Fallon.”
He criticized Kimmel and claimed he has “absolutely NO TALENT” while warning that his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, is next on the chopping block.
“The word is, and it’s a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes, and shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on July 22.
“These are people with absolutely NO TALENT, who were paid Millions of Dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television. It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!”
Kimmel responded by sharing a screenshot of Trump’s post on Instagram with the caption: “I’m hearing you’re next. Or maybe it’s just another wonderful secret” — a reference to a Wall Street Journal report, published July 17, that claimed Trump had written the phrase to Jeffrey Epstein in a letter for his 50th birthday in 2003.
As TV networks tighten their belts thanks to economic issues and low ratings, high-profile stars will see changes not only to their contracts but to their shows on the whole.
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“They say two things can be right at the same time, and I’m feeling that so deeply right now. I love you, and it’s time for me to leave the show,” she said in the letter.
She continued, “My broadcast career has been beyond meaningful; a new decade of my life lies ahead, and now my daughters and my mom need and deserve a bigger slice of my time pie. I will miss you all desperately, but I’m ready and excited.”
She will leave the show early next year, but co-host Savannah Guthrie remains as her contract will last another year.
Another anchor with an uncertain future is MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who reportedly makes a whopping $30 million a year, although her contract is under review.
Rachel is a major drawcard for the network and has hosted her own show since 2008, but her $600,000 per episode salary may be cut next year.
“We have had a tremendous shake-up in how TV is delivered and received, and the business is going through a major struggle trying to retain and grow revenues,” Joe Peyronnin, a former television news executive, told the Wall Street Journal.
Rachel Maddow reportedly makes $30 million a year from her self-titled show
Late-night talk shows are being slashed from five to four nights a week as the networks scramble to keep up with the changing television landscape.
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon will no longer produce an episode each Friday.
While Jimmy Fallon is safe until 2028, with his contract extended until then, and Stephen signed on until 2026, Jimmy Kimmel told the LA Times that he may not re-sign after his contract ends in 2025.
CBS already axed The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2023 after eight years on air.
According to Forbes, this speaks to a broader trend of cable and broadcast TV versus streaming; only 57% of households now subscribe to cable television, and only three networks averaged over one million viewers during prime time compared to 19 in 2013. Only 30% of US adults use an antenna for broadcast TV.
The beloved Good Morning America could see hosts George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts’s contracts in limbo after they end next year; they both currently make $25 million, but after Disney, who owns the ABC network, told the show to cut costs by $19 million, their future hangs in the balance.
Good Morning America is cutting costs by $19 million
Over on CBS, Evening News star Norah O’Donnell was dealt a 50% pay cut by the network after her ratings had dropped by 25%, and she faces the chopping board after Paramount also deals with wide-scale layoffs to cut costs.
Clearly, the future of broadcast and cable TV is up in the air, and with it are the slew of beloved anchors sitting at the helm of some of television’s biggest shows.
Jimmy Kimmel received a Creative Arts Emmy Award for “Outstanding Variety Special (Live)” this evening for hosting the Oscars in 2023. He’s hosted a total of four times, could the shiny new statuette convince him to host a fifth?
“No, the die has been cast,” said Kimmel with a laugh.
The late-night host declined to repeat the gig at the next Academy Awards due to the time commitment preparing for Hollywood’s biggest night. Neither Kimmel nor comedian John Mulaney accepted an offer to host for 2025 with no one else confirmed as of now.
Though he did not address whether hosting duties were completely off the table indefinitely, he has previously said if he returned for next year’s celebration it would’ve been three back-to-back years which was too overwhelming for his schedule both professionally and personally.
In the meantime, Kimmel remains focused on working on his eponymous late-night show ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! as the industry landscape is rapidly changing. On Friday, it was announced that NBC’sThe Tonight Show will no longer have original episodes airing 5 nights a week. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBS’ Late Show With Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers already scaled back to four nights of originals a week starting this season.
“As a group, we have a text chain of all the late-night hosts and we sent all of our congratulations to Jimmy Fallon for getting Friday off,” Kimmel shared backstage. “There is no future for late-night,” he added as the room erupted with laughter.
The 97th Academy Awards have yet to land a host, though it’s not for lack of trying.
ABC is said to have made offers to both Jimmy Kimmel and John Mulaney, both of whom passed on the opportunity, as first reported by Puck News. Fortunately for the Academy and its host network, there’s still plenty of time, with the Oscars not slated to air until Sunday, March 2.
The first outreach had gone to Kimmel, its late-night host, who’s already emceed the Academy Awards four times, including the last two years. (Ironically, his statement upon accepting the offer in 2023 read: “I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times.”) Nevertheless, he was the obvious choice, in large part because his last foray was widely praised and because he’s already part of the Disney family. But Kimmel ultimately said no, as he reportedly did hosting this year’s Emmy awards, which will also be carried on ABC.
The decision may come as a surprise to those who know Kimmel to ultimately say yes to most major gigs in the name of being a good partner. After all, he’s hosted the Emmys for ABC three times, he makes an annual appearance as roast master at the Disney upfront and he keeps re-upping his late night contract despite hemming and hawing about being done. But he’s also been vocal in recent years about his desire to have more balance in his life, which played into his decision to take the summers off at Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Mulaney, arguably a sexier if riskier bet, came next. His name has been bandied about as a potential host ever since he won over the Oscar crowd at the Governors Awards earlier this year. In fact, many saw that non-televised gig as an audition of sorts, during which Mulaney clearly passed. (Vulture went so far as to publish a piece titled, Let John Mulaney Host Everything.) The year prior, Mulaney had been asked by The Hollywood Reporter if he would ever consider hosting the Oscars. “Sure, why not?” he replied. “It would be really fun. It’s hosting the Academy Awards. Johnny Carson did that.”
And while the comic addressed the possibly more recently, telling THR in June that he “wouldn’t necessarily say no”; in the end, he decided to pass for this year. (Don’t bother asking about the year after since he insists he doesn’t plan more three months in advance.) Though hosting the Oscars is a prestigious opportunity and still a major platform, it’s also a massive, months-long and often thankless undertaking. Plus, Mulaney would have had to give up other opportunities, including another likely (and hugely lucrative) standup tour. So, it’s back to the drawing board for ABC and the Academy, which hasn’t had to run an extensive search for an Oscars host in years. ABC declined to comment for this story, and the Academy did not immediately respond.
Video from a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles for President Joe Biden on Saturday is circulating on social media with claims that he froze up onstage as he exited the event.
“Biden froze again last night and had to get escorted out by Obama,” reads one post on X that had received approximately 22,000 likes and 5,600 shares as of Monday. “Is this normal?”
Members of his campaign and administration say the Democratic president stopped to take in cheers and applause as he left a sit-down with former President Barack Obama and comedian Jimmy Kimmel that helped raise more than $30 million for his reelection campaign. A spokesperson for Kimmel echoed this view.
President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event with former President Barack Obama at the Peacock Theater, Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The video is the most recent in a series of clips taken at public events, some of them edited, that are being used to suggest Biden is mentally and physically unfit for office.
Here’s a closer look at the facts.
CLAIM: Biden froze onstage during his fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday night and had to be led away by Obama.
THE FACTS: Biden paused amid cheers and applause as he exited the stage with his predecessor following an interview moderated by late-night host Kimmel.
Former President Donald Trump shared a video on his social media platform Truth Social that showed a grainy version of Biden stopping and looking out into the audience as he departed. “Is this really who you want to be your president?” Trump asked in the post.
President Joe Biden blows a kiss as he arrives for a campaign event with former President Barack Obama moderated by Jimmy Kimmel at the Peacock Theater, Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Separate footage from the event provided to The Associated Press by Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer shows the president waving, pointing, clapping and giving the thumbs-up to the audience alongside Obama while Kimmel waits off to the side. Biden then stands still for about seven seconds looking out at the crowd. He starts moving again when Obama briefly takes his arm and puts his hand on his back as the pair walks offstage.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates described the moment as “the President taking in an applauding crowd for a few seconds.” Singer attributed the negative characterizations as a distraction tactic from those who “are so scared of losing to Joe Biden, they’ll make anything up to distract from the fact that their candidate for president, Donald Trump, has been convicted of 34 felonies, found liable for sexual assault, committed financial fraud, and only cares about himself.”
In response to a question at a press briefing on Monday about videos that have been edited to make Biden appear frail or confused, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called such footage “cheap fakes video” that are “done in bad faith.” She added that they demonstrate “everything that we need to know about how desperate, how desperate Republicans are here.”
A source who helped organize, and attended, the fundraiser told the AP that there was nothing noteworthy about this moment and that Obama wanted to be “chummy” by walking offstage with Biden.
Lewis Kay, a spokesperson for Kimmel, called the claims spreading online “nonsense.”
“Attendees in the front were shouting at him, and President Biden was trying to hear them,” he wrote in an email to the AP. “It’s as simple as that.”
The fundraiser took in a record $30 million-plus, according to Biden’s campaign. George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand were among those who took the stage at the event. During their interview with Kimmel, Biden and Obama both stressed the need to defeat Trump in a race that’s expected to be exceedingly close.
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CULVER CITY, Calif. — Jimmy Kimmel is on his summer vacation from late-night television. But before he started his time off, he taped a summer of shows for primetime.
Kimmel is back with a new celebrity-filled season of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.”
“This show is so much easier than my show. I mean, really, like, the amount of preparation is basically one minute of reading through pronunciations and then sitting down,” laughed Kimmel.
In the new season of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,” celebrities are pairing up to win money for their charities – including the stars of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Scrubs” and “Full House.”
“We got into neuroses. We get into all sorts of old wounds were opened. I didn’t even want to ask any questions because it was so funny watching them sit there and talk,” said Kimmel.
“Kenan and Kel” hope to hit the jackpot on the show. But they are already winners when it comes to the fans.
“When Ken and Kel walked out there, I’m not joking, the whole front row of the audience here started crying,” said Kimmel.
But laughing has been a big part of the show. So has philanthropy.
“It’s been very fulfilling so far. And people have made a lot of money. And you can tell when you talk to these people that, all joking aside, all game show aside, these charities mean a lot to them. When you ask somebody, ‘What is your favorite charity?’ you know, it hits home,” said Kimmel.
I asked Jimmy what game night looks like at the Kimmel household.
“I don’t like games. Maybe I shouldn’t be a game show host!” joked Kimmel. “I do love to play Scrabble. Unfortunately, no one will play with me ever because I just don’t ever lose. So, I love to play Scrabble. I like to play Boggle, sometimes by myself. But word games, I guess, are the games I go for.”
I let him know those were my two favorite games.
“Oh, I would love to play you.” said Kimmel. “Oh, just Pennacchio’s like a thousand points!”
“Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” airs Wednesday nights on ABC.
WASHINGTON – Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined a glitzy fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Saturday night, helping raise what his reelection campaign said was $28 million and hoping to energize would-be supporters for a November election that they argued was among the most important in the nation’s history.
George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand were among those who took the stage at the 7,100-seat Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Biden and former President Barack Obama, who both stressed the need to defeat former President Donald Trump in a race that’s expected to be exceedingly close.
During more than half an hour of discussion, Kimmel asked if the country was suffering from amnesia about the presumptive Republican nominee, to which Biden responded, “all we gotta do is remember what it was like” when Trump was in the White House.
Luminaries from the entertainment world have increasingly lined up to help Biden’s campaign, and just how important the event was to his reelection bid could be seen in the Democratic president’s decision to fly through the night across nine time zones, from the G7 summit in southern Italy to Southern California, to attend.
He also missed a summit in Switzerland about ways to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, instead dispatching Vice President Kamala Harris who made a whirlwind trip of her own to represent the United States there, a stark reminder of the delicate balance between geopolitics and Biden’s bid to win a second term.
Further laying bare the political implications were police in riot gear outside the theater, ready for protests from pro-Palestinian activists angry about his administration’s handling of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
The event featured singing by Jack Black and Sheryl Lee Ralph, and actors Kathryn Hahn and Jason Bateman introduced Kimmel, who introduced Biden and Obama. The comedian deadpanned, “I was told I was getting introduced by Batman, not Bateman.”
But he quickly pivoted to far more serious topics, saying that “so much is at stake in this election” and listing women’s rights, health care and noting that “even the ballot is on the ballot” in a reference to the Biden administration’s calls to expand voting rights.
Kimmel asked the president what he was most proud of accomplishing, and Biden said he thought the administration’s approach to the economy “is working.”
“We have the strongest economy in the world today,” Biden said, adding “we try to give ordinary people an even chance.”
Trump spent Saturday campaigning in Detroit and criticized Biden’s handling of the economy and inflation. The president was fundraising “with out-of-touch elitist Hollywood celebrities,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.
But Biden told the crowd in California that “we passed every major piece of legislation we attempted to get done.” And Obama expressed admiration for sweeping legislation on health care, public works, the environment, technology manufacturing, gun safety and other major initiatives that the administration of his former vice president has overseen.
“What we’re seeing now is a byproduct of in 2016. There were a whole bunch of folks who, for whatever reason, sat out,” said Obama, who, like Biden wore a dark suit and a white shirt open at the collar.
Obama, speaking about the Supreme Court, added that “hopefully we have learned our lesson, because these elections matter in very concrete ways.”
Trump nominated three justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision guaranteeing a constitutional right to an abortion. The audience expressed its displeasure at the mention of Roe, to which Obama responded, “don’t hiss, vote.” That was a play on his common refrain prioritizing voting over booing.
Biden said the person elected president in November could get the chance to nominate two new justices, though a second Biden term probably wouldn’t drastically overhaul a court that currently features a 6-3 conservative majority.
He also suggested if Trump wins back the White House, “one of the scariest parts” was the Supreme Court and how the high court has “never been this far out of step.”
Biden also referenced reports that an upside-down flag, a symbol associated with Trump’s false claims of election fraud, was flown outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021. He worried Saturday that, if Trump is reelected, “He’s going to appoint two more who fly their flags upside down.”
Kimmel brought his special brand of humor to the event. At one point he asked how can a president get back at a talk-show host who makes fun of him on TV every night.
“Ever hear of Delta Force?” Biden responded, referring to the Army special operations unit.
Earlier in the program, Kimmel noted Biden’s campaign promise to restore the soul of America and said “lately it seems we might need an exorcism.” Then he asked Biden, “Is that why you visited the pope?” Biden and Pope Francis met in Italy on Friday.
Biden’s campaign said it was still counting, but Saturday night’s gathering had taken in at least $28 million, more money than any event for a Democratic candidate in history.
That meant outpacing the president’s fundraiser in March at Radio City Music Hall in New York, which raised $26 million and featured late-night host Stephen Colbert interviewing Biden, Obama and former President Bill Clinton.
Biden held an early lead in the campaign money race against Trump, but the former president has gained ground since he formally locked up the Republican nomination.
Trump outpaced Biden’s New York event by raking in $50.5 million at an April gathering of major donors at the Florida home of billionaire investor John Paulson. The former president’s campaign and the Republican National Committee announced they raised a whopping $141 million in May, padded by tens of millions of dollars in contributions that flowed in after Trump’s guilty verdict in his criminal hush money trial.
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Los Angeles (CNN) — Joe Biden has raised $28 million heading into a star-studded fundraiser Saturday, campaign officials told CNN, as the president leans on his Hollywood friends to help boost his campaign war chest.
The president’s Los Angeles event with former President Barack Obama, George Clooney and Julia Roberts marks the campaign’s latest effort to tap into celebrity appeal to help Biden win a second term in the White House. The LA fundraiser sets a new record for Democrats, raising more than an event at Radio City Music Hall in March that Biden campaign officials said brought in the party’s biggest haul ever.
The Biden campaign ran a contest geared toward small-dollar donors to win a chance to attend Saturday’s fundraiser and meet Biden, Obama, Roberts and Clooney, who all sent emails or texts encouraging supporters to chip in. The campaign has also provided grassroots supporters at home an opportunity to tune into the event virtually with a donation of $20 or more.
“When you come up with an event like this, a concept like this, you know it’s going to be big. You know it’s going to be exciting. You know it’s going to gather a lot of attention. It’s going to raise a lot of money,” said Rufus Gifford, finance chair of the Biden campaign. “This one exceeded all of our expectations.”
It also comes as the campaign is trying to maintain its cash advantage over former President Donald Trump, who has made significant gains in his fundraising since securing the Republican nomination for president. The Trump campaign said it saw a huge boost in donations in the 24 hours after his conviction in the criminal hush money trial, bringing in $53 million.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel will moderate a conversation with Biden and Obama at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday. Other celebrities, including Jason Bateman, Jack Black, Kathryn Hahn and Sheryl Lee Ralph, are also expected to participate in the evening’s program, a campaign official said.
Tickets for the Tinseltown event ranged from $250 to $500,000, with special access going to those purchasing tickets in the highest ranges, according to an invitation seen by CNN. Those donating $500,000 fall into the event chair category, which includes four tickets in the front row, a photograph with Biden and Obama, attendance at a special reception with the two presidents and tickets for the after party.
The event is modeled after a high-dollar fundraiser featuring Biden, Obama, and former President Bill Clinton in New York City, which raked in more than $26 million. Biden is set to appear at a fundraiser with Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Virginia on Tuesday.
In addition to drawing in a significant money haul, the Biden campaign is hoping Saturday’s event will amount to a show of force from the entertainment industry.
“This Saturday we are going to see an unprecedented and record setting turn out from the media and entertainment world,” Jeffrey Katzenberg, a co-chair of the Biden campaign who played a major role in Saturday’s fundraiser, said in a statement. “The enthusiasm and commitment for Biden/Harris couldn’t be stronger. We all understand this is the most important election of our lifetime.”
Biden’s advisers have already worked to tap into A-list star power to help push its campaign’s message. Robert De Niro narrated an ad for the campaign, and the longtime Trump critic spoke at a news conference outside the former president’s criminal trial in New York City last month.
On Friday, Jane Fonda joined first lady Jill Biden for an event in Reno, Nevada, geared toward mobilizing senior voters. Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, hosted a fundraiser for the Biden campaign in London this week and helped organize the three presidents fundraiser in New York City in March.
Biden’s advisers anticipate rolling out more endorsements and finding ways for celebrities to engage with the voters as Election Day nears. But many in Hollywood are wary of jumping into the political fray amid a hyper-divisive political landscape, sources have previously told CNN.
The conflict in Gaza is among the issues that have divided Hollywood. The war loomed large over Biden’s glitzy Radio City Music Hall fundraiser in March with protesters outside and inside the venue.
The Los Angeles fundraiser comes as Biden is looking to boost his campaign war chest amid signs Trump is narrowing the money gap. Biden has led Trump in fundraising for most of the year, but the former president has seen a significant influx in cash come his way since securing the Republican nomination in March. Trump outraised Biden for the first time in April.
Trump’s campaign and its affiliated committees announced they brought in $141 million in May, including $53 million in the 24 hours following his historic conviction in his criminal hush money trial. Trump’s operation has yet to announce its cash-on-hand for the month.
Biden has not unveiled his May fundraising haul, but his campaign and affiliated committees entered last month with $192 million cash-on-hand.
Within 24 hours, President Joe Biden will have gone from the G7 Summit to George Clooney.
Mr. Biden left Italy late Friday night after a meeting with world leaders and arrived in Los Angeles early Saturday morning ahead of a star-studded evening fundraiser with former President Barack Obama, talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, Clooney and actress Julia Roberts.
The Biden-Harris campaign says they’ve already raised $28 million going into Saturday night’s event, a record sum for a single Democratic fundraiser. It also eclipses the $26 million the Biden campaign raised from a March fundraiser in New York City with Biden, Obama and former President Bill Clinton.
President Joe Biden waves as he arrives on Air Force One, Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. Biden will attend a campaign event Saturday night.
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Saturday’s star-studded affair will feature a moderated interview of Biden and Obama by Kimmel that is expected to be focused on health care. Kimmel has been a public advocate of the Affordable Care Act, passed by Obama and Biden, after his newborn son had open-heart surgery in 2017.
Clooney and Roberts will serve as hosts of Saturday’s event. Appearances from actors Jason Bateman, Jack Black, Kathryn Hahn and Sheryl Lee Ralph are also expected, along with an undisclosed musical guest.
Other celebrities, such as Keegan-Michael Key, Connie Britton, Misha Collins, Jeri Ryan, Jonathan Del Arco, Mandana Dayani, Blake Cooper Griffin and Adam Met, will be in attendance, according to the Biden campaign.
Prices for tickets at Saturday’s event ranged from $250 to $500,000, though grassroots donors could chip in $20 to watch the fundraiser virtually.
Hollywood actors have had a presence on the campaign trail in support of Biden in recent weeks. Robert De Niro took part in a May campaign press conference outside the lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial was taking place. Ralph of “Abbott Elementary” campaigned with Vice President Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, and Jane Fonda appeared at a campaign event in Reno, Nev. with first lady Jill Biden on Friday.
The money comes at a time when the race is tight between Biden and Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. A CBS News poll from June found Mr. Biden up 1 point in the battleground states, a virtual tie. The Biden campaign says money raised Saturday will go to growing their grassroots operation (field offices, staffers) and towards paid media.
“This Saturday we are going to see an unprecedented and record-setting turnout from the media and entertainment world. The enthusiasm and commitment for Biden/Harris couldn’t be stronger. We all understand this is the most important election of our lifetime,” said Biden-Harris campaign co-chair and film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg.
While Mr. Biden has held a sizeable cash advantage throughout most of the cycle, Mr. Trump has seen his own fundraising grow. His campaign says they raised $52.8 million in the 24 hours after he was convicted on 34 felony counts from his “hush money” trial.
Mr. Clooney’s involvement in the fundraiser brought some intrigue after the Washington Post reported in June that he had called a White House advisor to air grievances with Biden’s criticism of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which Clooney’s wife Amal works on. Biden has criticized the ICC’s application for arrest warrants of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
Several days after, the Biden campaign sent out a fundraising text from Clooney.
“I’m not exaggerating when I say that this election is the fight of our lives,” the text blast from Clooney reads. “It’s a choice between those who want to pull America back to the past, and those who want to move America into the future.”
Aaron Navarro is a CBS News digital reporter covering the 2024 elections. He was previously an associate producer for the CBS News political unit in the 2021 and 2022 election cycles.
Bert Kreischer made a joke involving his bag of nicotine patches during The Tom Brady Roast. Then it morphed into an accusation about cocaine, he told Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, taking things into dangerous territory.
Kreischer had nicotine patches in a can in his pocket, but he was informed by the director of the roast that they were too distracting. “So I said, ‘Okay, and I put them in a little bag,’” he said. But that led ridicule by comedian Sam Jay.
“She started calling me a fake party animal, that I don’t even do drugs, I’m not even dead like the best ones.”
He continued, “So, I went into my pocket and pulled out my nicotine patches and I just wiggled them.”
Comedian Andrew Schulz chimed in. “Schulz goes, ‘You got a bag of blow on you?’ And the camera’s on me in the Forum and the Forum goes nuts, like, ‘This guy brought coke!’”
When Netflix edited together the roast, however, they cut the moment out of the broadcast, much to Kreischer’s approval. “Tom comes back and tells me, ‘You’re about to go viral, everyone’s going to think you’re a cokehead,’” Kreischer recounted. “But they edited it out thank God. I didn’t want to have to deal with my daughters. I’ve been saying no pills, no powder for years, and then dad’s rolling in with half an eight-ball.”
Finding Loki’s glorious purpose finally came full circle at the end of Loki season two in ways perhaps the God of Mischief turned God of Stories couldn’t have imagined. Tom Hiddleston discussed his 14-year journey as Loki on a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance, during which Kimmel asked if it’s really the last we’re seeing of the iconic Marvel anti-hero.
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Hiddleston has said goodbye to Loki before with deaths that didn’t quite stick—including Avengers: Infinity War, which turned out to be a variant death. But the Avengers-era Loki who made a break for it in Avengers: Endgame ended up being the Loki we followed in the Loki series. So, is this the end for Loki? “I don’t know, I really don’t know,” Hiddleston told the host, who asked if he was contractually lying (I don’t count him out for Deadpool & Wolverine, to be honest). He added, somewhat cryptically, “I know that we’ve reached some sort of narrative conclusion with season two, which feels very satisfying to me.”
Loki’s redemption as the glue that literally holds the multiverse together as the God of Stories might mean he can only exist outside of the timeline, sure—but is that proof that Loki is a full-fledged hero now, considering the villainous start of his journey? (I mean, is the Battle of New York still hard to give him a pass for?) Hiddleston thinks so. “I’m aware that he’s made some interesting choices, which could be accumulated into a picture that looks like he’s a villain, and once upon a time, he was making some misguided choices,” he shared. Anyone who has followed Loki on the Disney+ series knows he went through a huge multiversal ass-kicking and ego breakdown, what with having to learn how to fix time and everything in the multiverse over the course of hundreds of years and the loss of everyone he knows—ultimately saving many more people than he carelessly unalived in Avengers.
Hiddleston continued. “You know, trying to take over New York and the Avengers having to assemble to stop him, that was a bad day in the office,” he said, comparing it to the grand scheme of his destiny weighted bymore burden than glory. “I’d like to think that, you know, 14 years later, he’s making some slightly more generous, loving, and heroic choices.”
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The former Fox News host Megyn Kelly is speaking out to slam the “classless” Jimmy Kimmel for the way he hosted the Oscars on Sunday night after he used the show to shamelessly bash Donald Trump. Kelly fired back by torching Kimmel and bringing up his documented history of blackface.
Kelly Eviscerates Kimmel
Though Kimmel initially avoided politics while hosting the Oscars, he took a shot at Trump at the end of the show after the former president bashed his hosting style on social media.
“Thank you, President Trump,” Kimmel said, according to CBS News. “Thank you for watching. I’m surprised you’re still up. Isn’t it past jail time?”
This didn’t sit well with Kelly, who fired back at Kimmel on her eponymous SiriusXM talk show.
“He found time to take a shot at Trump, he found time to take a shot at Katie Britt, he did not find any time to make fun of Joe Biden who is the sitting president of the United—I just guess there’s no fodder there, nothing to joke about,” Kelly said.
Kelly’s guest Andrew Klavan, a conservative political commentator, responded by saying that Kimmel “just following what the news media is doing.” He added that he was surprised that Kimmel never mentioned President Joe Biden, who had just given “the worst State of the Union address in my lifetime,” which he called “ugly and divisive.”
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Earlier in the show, Kelly criticized the Oscars audience, “who laughed and curried favor with the man who wore blackface so many times, he’s second only to Justin Trudeau in his fondness for the practice.”
Kelly went on to say that the Hollywood stars “absolutely ate up the performance by Hollywood darling Mr. Kimmel” even though “some of the very same celebrities who wanted you to believe they were horrified — horrified — after yours truly said in 2018 that people used to don dark makeup to imitate well-known black celebrities and it wasn’t a big deal.”
The New York Post reported that this was a reference to Kimmel wearing blackface to portray the black Utah Jazz star Karl Malone in a skit on “The Man Show” back in the 1990s. He also wore dark makeup to portray Oprah Winfrey in another skit. In contrast, Kelly was fired by NBC in 2018 after she simply weighed in on those wearing blackface, saying that “in the 70s/80s, it used to be viewed differently.”
“Obviously Kimmel’s love of blackface was not a deal-breaker for ABC — which already employs him as a late-night host and which, in addition to its many blackface awards shows, also produced and promoted many shows and stars in blackface,” Kelly lamented.
“It appears the real sin with blackface, you see, is talking about how standards on it have changed, not actually wearing it,” she continued. “You can still win Oscars and host the Oscars after doing that.”
Check out her full comments on this in the video below.
Kelly also ripped into Kimmel for a joke he made at the expense of Robert Downey Jr., who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar on Sunday night for his work in Oppenheimer.
“This is the highest point of Robert Downey Jr’s career… well, one of the highest points,” Kimmel said during the opening monologue. When Downey Jr. responded by tapping his nose in a sign of recognition, Kimmel asked: “Was that too on the nose or a drug motion you made?”
A visibly annoyed Downey Jr. reacted to this by signaling Kimmel to move on from the joke.
“What Kimmel did last night, was he tried to mock people’s weaknesses and things they had genuinely fought hard to overcome, like he did to Robert Downey Jr, who wound up being a favorite of the night,” Kelly said.
“But before he won Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer, Kimmel, in his opening monologue, decided to take a shot at—everyone knows about Robert Downey Jr’s long history with drugs and alcohol,” she continued. “It’s something no one celebrates but he needs to be given credit for overcoming.”
After Kelly played a clip of the exchange, she added, “What was that? That was just classless.”
Kelly concluded by comparing the way Kimmel hosted the Oscars to the way the British comedian Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes on five separate occasions in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2020, according to Newsweek.
“Last night, one of the things I think stood out about Kimmel’s hosting was, he didn’t get it. The reason Ricky Gervais did so well when he hosted those Golden Globes and just eviscerated everyone in that room is because he was making fun of them on things that we knew were true,” Kelly explained.
“Y’know kind of, their abuse of their own power, their self-importance and that kind of thing and he was punching up, which is okay,” she stated.
Check out Kelly’s full comments on this in the video below.
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The hypocrisy of Kimmel and the rest of Hollywood never ceases to amaze, and good for Kelly for calling them all out. No wonder the Oscars has been struggling to get anyone to watch for years!
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“Oppenheimer” won best picture during the 2024 Academy Awards Sunday, dominating seven categories throughout the night. Emma Stone, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ryan Gosling and Jimmy Kimmel also shined bright during this year’s ceremony. Nigel Smith, a senior movies editor at People, joins CBS News with a look at the highlights.
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It’s safe to say you could see John Cena Sunday night. The actor and former WWE champion showed up to the Oscars stage Sunday night wearing even less than he did in the wrestling ring.
While preparing to introduce the 2024 Academy Award nominees for best costume design, host Jimmy Kimmel recalled an infamous streaking incident on the show 50 years ago, when actor David Niven was surprised by a naked man running across the stage.
“Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?” Kimmel wondered aloud as Cena peeked out from behind a wall.
“I changed my mind. I don’t want to do the streaker bit anymore,” Cena whispered to the late night host as they pretended to argue about the apparent prior arrangement. “The male body is not a joke.”
Nonetheless, the former WWE champion fulfilled his duty, sidling up to the microphone fully naked save for a prestigious Oscars envelope.
John Cena onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, on March 10, 2024.
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“Costumes,” Cena said as the Dolby Theatre roared with laughter, “they are so important.”
When he refused to lift the envelope in order to read out the nominees, Kimmel stepped in and cued the nomination reel.
In a video posted to X by The Hollywood Reporter’s Chris Gardner, a stage crew can be seen running on stage as the reel played to drape an elegant curtain over Cena.
The award for best costume design ultimately went to “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ film starring Emma Stone.
You can see a full list of 2024 Academy Award winners here.
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The 96th Oscars are set for Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Here’s what you need to know.
What Time Do The Oscars Start?
The ceremony is airing live on ABC and elsewhere beginning at 4 p.m. PT/7 pm ET, an hour earlier than the Oscarcast’s traditional start. It’s also the first full day of Daylight Saving Time, with the spring forward taking effect as of 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
Jimmy Kimmel is hosting Sunday’s Academy Awards for a fourth time, and for a second year in a row.
What Channels Are The Oscars On?
In addition to ABC, the Oscars ceremony will be available on ABC.com and the ABC app via authentication with a cable or satellite provider. ABC is also available through streaming services including Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV, many of which have free trials at signup.
The show will also be available in more than 200 countries and territories (see the list of international broadcasters below).
This year’s Oscars will also be available in American Sign Language via livestream. Follow that livestream via the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences here.
Red Carpet Pre-Shows
The official ABC pre-show, The Oscars Red Carpet Show, will get underway at 3:30 p.m. PT/6:30 p.m. PT with Vanessa Hudgens and Julianne Hough as hosts. On E!, the network’s annual Live From Oscars red-carpet coverage kicks off at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET.
In L.A., the CW’s KTLA-5 will air a live red-carpet show Live From the Oscars from 1-3:30 p.m. PT hosted by the news team’s Sam Rubin, Jessica Holmes, Megan Henderson and Doug Kolk.
Earlier in the day, ABC News will present Countdown to Oscars: On the Red Carpet Live from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. PT/1-4 p.m. ET that will air on ABC and stream on ABC News Live, with Linsey Davis and Whit Johnson hosting live from the Dolby Theater’s red carpet.
What To Expect During The Ceremony
Kimmel will preside over a planned three-and-a-half-hour show honoring the year’s best in motion pictures. He will be joined by a presenter list that includes Mahershala Ali, Bad Bunny, Emily Blunt, Nicolas Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cynthia Erivo, America Ferrera, Sally Field, Brendan Fraser, Ryan Gosling, Ariana Grande, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Ben Kingsley, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Lawrence, Melissa McCarthy, Matthew McConaughey, Kate McKinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulaney, Lupita Nyong’o, Catherine O’Hara, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ke Huy Quan, Issa Rae, Tim Robbins, Sam Rockwell, Octavia Spencer, Steven Spielberg, Mary Steenburgen, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlize Theron, Christoph Waltz, Forest Whitaker, Michelle Yeoh, Ramy Youssef and Zendaya.
All five songs nominated for the Original Song category will be performed Sunday. That loaded list includes a pair of tunes from Barbie, the queen of the 2023 box office that is up for eight Oscar nominations (one of those songs, Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” won Song of the Year earlier this month at the Grammys where she and her brother/co-songwriter Finneas O’Connell performed it).
The nominated songs to be features Sunday are:
“The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot Performed by Becky G Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“I’m Just Ken” from Barbie Performed by Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson Music and Lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
“It Never Went Away” from American Symphony Performed by Jon Batiste Music and Lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson
“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon Performed by Scott George and the Osage Singers Music and Lyric by Scott George
“What Was I Made For?” from Barbie Performed by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
Who’s Nominated?
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is up for a leading 13 nominations Sunday and comes in sweeping through most of the major awards shows so far this season including the guilds (major and craft), the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs. The record for the most Oscars in one year is 11 (co-held by Ben-Hur, Titanic and most recently Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in 2004).
Other top nominees Sunday are Poor Things with 11 noms including Best Actress for Emma Stone and Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos; Killers of the Flower Moon with 10 including Best Actress for Lily Gladstone and Best Director for Martin Scorsese; and Barbie with eight including supporting noms for Gosling and America Ferrera and Adapted Screenplay for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (yes, Oscar voters snubbed Margot Robbie for Lead Actress and Gerwig for Directing).
The above four films along with American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Maestro, Past Lives and The Zone of Interest are nominated in the marquee Best Picture race, won last year by Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Other frontrunners to watch Sunday include in the acting categories, where Gladstone, Cillian Murphy (lead) and Robert Downey Jr and Da’Vine Joy Randolph (supporting) have been consistent winners during the long awards season and are favored to take statues.
The Oscars are also being broadcast in more than 200 countries and territories. Here is the list of broadcasters per the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:
Africa (M-Net, DSTV Now); Armenia (First Channel); Australia (Seven Network, 7Plus); Austria, Alto Adige (Orf 1); Baltics (Duo 3, Duo 4, Duo 5, Duo 6, Filmzone, Filmzone +, Kidzone, Kino 7, Semeika, Kanal 2, Kanal 7, Kanal 7+); Belgium (Play6, Play More, GoPlay in Flemish; Proximus TV, Pickx in French); Bosnia & Herzegovina (Federalna Televizija); Bulgaria (Nova Television); Canada (CTV, CTV2); Croatia (HRT 1, HRT 2); Cyprus (Movies Best HD); Czech Republic (CT1, CT2, CT Art); Denmark (TV2 Denmark, TV2 Play, TV2 Zulu, DR2); El Salvador (Channel 2); Fiji & Fijian Islands (FBC TV); Finland (YLE Teema Fem, YLE Areena); France, Andora, Mauritius, Monaco (Canal + France, Canal + On Demand, Canal Plus Decalle, Canal Plus Cinema, Canal Plus Sport, Canal + Family, Canal + Series); Georgia (Imedi TV); Germany, Austria, Alto Adige, Liechtenstein, Switzerland (Pro 7, Kabel1, Kabel1 Doku, ProSieben Maxx, Sat.1, Sat.1 Gold, Sixx, Maxdome (Aka Joyn), 7TV, http://www.prosieben.de in German); Greece (Ote TV); Guatemala (Canal 31, Canal 35);
Iceland (Leigan, Stod 2, Channel 2); India (Disney+ Hotstar); India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka (Fox, Fox Crime, FX, Star Gold, Star Movies, Star Movies Select, Star One, Star Plus, Star Utsav, Star World, Star World Premiere HD, Vijay); Indonesia (Disney+ Hotstar); Ireland (RTE, RTE 2, RTE Player); Israel (Yes Movies HD); Japan (Wowwow, Wowwow Members on Demand); Latin America & Caribbean (TNT, CNN Chile, HBO Max); Luxembourg (Proximus TV, Pickx in Belgian; Pro 7, Kabel1, Kabel1 Doku, ProSieben Maxx, Sat.1, Sat.1 Gold, Sixx, Maxdome (Aka Joyn), 7TV, http://www.prosieben.de in German); Macedonia (Macedonian Radio Television); Mexico (Azteca 7, Azteca 13); Middle East & North Africa (MBC 2, MBC Mox, Al Thaqafeya, Shahid Plus); Mongolia (Edutainment TV Channel, Moviebox Channel); Montenegro (TVCG1);
Netherlands (Film 1, Filmbox, ANOs [“Canal Digitaal” “KPN” and “Ziggo”]); Poland (Canal + [Poland], Player+, myCanal); Portugal (RTP 1); Romania, Moldova (ProTV, Pro Cinema and Voyo); Serbia (RTS); Singapore (Channel 5, meWatch); South Korea (OCN, OCN Movies, OCN Movies 2, TVN Limited, Genie TV, Genie TV Mobile, LG U+TV, LG U+ Mobile TV, Uflix); Spain, Andorra (Moviestar+, Movistar Accion, Movistar Comedia, Movistar Drama, Movistar Estrenos, Movistar Estrenos 2, Movistar Series, Movistar Series 2, #0 Channel, pop-up channel “The Oscars® on Movistar Plus+”); Switzerland (SF DRS [SF1 and SF2] in German); Taiwan (Taiwan Television); Thailand (True Movie Hits HD, True Film 1, TrueID, TrueVisions Now); Ukraine (Suspilne Kultura); UK, Ireland (ITV, ITVX); and Vietnam (K+, K+ Cine).
