​Cleverly spoofing Best Picture nominee Top Gun: Maverick, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live premiered this three-minute-plus trailer for the 95th annual Oscars on ABC Sunday, March 12. Cut-downs are running on the network leading up to the Big Show, which will be hosted by Kimmel for a third time.

Although Vice Admiral Beau “Cyclone” Simpson and Vice Admiral Solomon “Warlock” Bates (Jon Hamm and Charles Parnell, reprising their roles from the movie) aren’t that excited about Kimmel’s return, they tell Kimmel that ABC has tasked us with finding a host who is both “unflappable” and “unslappable,” a poke at Will Smith’s on-stage slap of presenter Chris Rock last year.

“That’s good because I can’t get slapped. I cry a lot,” Kimmel says.

Simpson and Bates then go through the very long list of other people that they asked to host, which includes Tina Fey, a child dressed as a pirate and Steve Harvey, who would have been “incredible,” Simpson says.

Billy Crystal also makes a cameo as Double Admiral Crystal, who can’t host for a tenth time because he has a dental appointment … on Sunday night.

Los Angeles-based NuContext assisted ABC with the production of the promo, making it two years in a row that NuContext has collaborated with the network to promote the Academy Awards. NuContext produced the 360 campaign, including promo shoot, key art and the EPK and digital package. NuContext Production Designer Marcelle Gravel designed the Top Gun conference room in order to recreate the scene from the movie shot for shot. Jimmy Kimmel’s team wrote the scripts.

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CREDITS

Client: ABC

ABC Creative Marketing Production

Vice President: Lara Wickes

Director, Production Strategy: Meg Tyra

Manager: Ben Roybal

Senior Producer: Randy Jackson

Associate Director, Special Projects: Sandy Christmas

SVP, Talent Relations: Kristen Graham

Editor: Colman Connolly

Writer/Producer: Sheila Alexander

Executive Director Branding & Design: Lucas P. Aragón

Art Director: Bryan Manning

Design Producer: Julie Hill

Coordinator: Katy Jones

PA: Casey Schoch

Talent PA: Simran Powell

Flame Artist: Antony Graf

Design Vendor: Loica

ABC Creative

SVP: Melissa King

SVP: Sohini Sengupta

Executive Creative Director: Lauren Kenny-Rudolph, Ron Buse

Director, Digital: Kevin Costley

Senior Writer, Producer: Jason Letkiewicz

Production Company: NuContext

Director: Mike Bernstein

Executive Producer: Angela Guice

Producer: Greg Weinbrecht

DP: Tom Banks

Production Manager: Rachel Oliver

Production Coordinator: Akasha Ross, Robert Byrd

Talent Producer: Michael Rola

1st AD: Jason Lombardo

Production Designer: Marcelle Gravel

Wardrobe: Andrea Sweet

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