For decades, hosting the Academy Awards was considered a plum, high-profile gig, one that luminaries like Bob Hope, Johnny Carson and Billy Crystal would return to multiple times. But in recent years, as the ratings have sagged and critiquing the show has been exacerbated by social media, many have come to see emceeing the Oscars as a thankless task, requiring weeks of preparation for relatively minimal pay. (Kimmel, who emceed the past two Oscars, told an interviewer in 2017 that he received $15,000 for his hosting gig that year.)
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