Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 2024 Oscars and opened the event with several jokes. He made fun of Robert Downey Jr.'s drug addiction, saying that his nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer was “one of the highs" of his career. Kimmel also joked about a secret trip with Ryan Gosling, referencing the movie Brokeback Mountain. He praised Greta Gerwig's movie Barbie and jibed the audience for rejecting her nomination. He made fun of Bradley Cooper's closeness to his mother and said he might present the biography of Sigmund Freud. Kimmel also joked about the length of the movie Killers of the Flower Moon, suggesting that viewers might need to solve the mystery of the crimes in Oklahoma. The awards ceremony was broadcast on Saudi Arabia's cultural channel.