| Year | Date | Host(s) |
| 2025 | March 2 | Conan O'Brien |
| 2024 | March 10 | Jimmy Kimmel |
| 2023 | March 12 | Jimmy Kimmel |
| 2022 | March 27 | Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes |
| 2021 | April 25 | No host |
| 2020 | February 9 | No host |
| 2019 | February 24 | No host |
| 2018 | March 4 | Jimmy Kimmel |
| 2017 | February 26 | Jimmy Kimmel |
| 2016 | February 28 | Chris Rock |
| 2015 | February 22 | Neil Patrick Harris |
| 2014 | March 2 | Ellen DeGeneres |
| 2013 | February 24 | Seth MacFarlane |
| 2012 | February 26 | Billy Crystal |
| 2011 | February 27 | James Franco, Anne Hathaway |
| 2010 | March 7 | Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin |
| 2009 | February 22 | Hugh Jackman |
| 2008 | February 24 | Jon Stewart |
| 2007 | February 25 | Ellen DeGeneres |
| 2006 | March 5 | Jon Stewart |
| 2005 | February 27 | Chris Rock |
| 2004 | February 29 | Billy Crystal |
| 2003 | March 23 | Steve Martin |
| 2002 | March 24 | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 2001 | March 25 | Steve Martin |
| 2000 | March 26 | Billy Crystal |
| 1999 | March 21 | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 1998 | March 23 | Billy Crystal |
| 1997 | March 24 | Billy Crystal |
| 1996 | March 25 | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 1995 | March 27 | David Letterman |
| 1994 | March 21 | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 1993 | March 29 | Billy Crystal |
| 1992 | March 30 | Billy Crystal |
| 1991 | March 25 | Billy Crystal |
| 1990 | March 26 | Billy Crystal |
| 1989 | March 29 | No host |
| 1988 | April 11 | Chevy Chase |
| 1987 | March 30 | Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Paul Hogan |
| 1986 | March 24 | Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams |
| 1985 | March 25 | Jack Lemmon, Jack Lemmon, Jack Lemmon, Jack Lemmon |
| 1984 | April 9 | Johnny Carson |
| 1983 | April 11 | Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, Walter Matthau |
| 1982 | March 29 | Johnny Carson |
| 1981 | March 31 | Johnny Carson |
| 1980 | April 14 | Johnny Carson |
| 1979 | April 9 | Johnny Carson |
| 1978 | April 3 | Bob Hope |
| 1977 | March 28 | Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, Richard Pryor |
| 1976 | March 29 | Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal, Robert Shaw |
| 1975 | April 8 | Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra |
| 1974 | April 2 | John Huston, Burt Reynolds, David Niven, Diana Ross |
| 1973 | March 27 | Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson |
| 1972 | April 10 | Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Lemmon |
| 1971 | April 15 | No host |
| 1970 | April 7 | No host |
| 1969 | April 14 | No host |
| 1968 | April 10 | Bob Hope |
| 1967 | April 10 | Bob Hope |
| 1966 | April 18 | Bob Hope |
| 1965 | April 5 | Bob Hope |
| 1964 | April 13 | Jack Lemmon |
| 1963 | April 8 | Frank Sinatra |
| 1962 | April 9 | Bob Hope |
| 1961 | April 17 | Bob Hope |
| 1960 | April 4 | Bob Hope |
| 1959 | April 6 | Bob Hope, David Niven, Tony Randall, Mort Sahl, Laurence Olivier, Jerry Lewis |
| 1958 | March 26 | Bob Hope, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Rosalind Russell, Donald Duck |
| 1957 | March 27 | Jerry Lewis, Celeste Holm |
| 1956 | March 21 | Jerry Lewis, Claudette Colbert, Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1955 | March 30 | Bob Hope, Thelma Ritter |
| 1954 | March 25 | Donald O'Connor, Fredric March |
| 1953 | March 19 | Bob Hope, Conrad Nagel |
| 1952 | March 20 | Danny Kaye |
| 1951 | March 29 | Fred Astaire |
| 1950 | March 23 | Paul Douglas |
| 1949 | March 24 | Robert Montgomery |
| 1948 | March 20 | Agnes Moorehead, Dick Powell |
| 1947 | March 13 | Jack Benny |
| 1946 | March 7 | Bob Hope, James Stewart |
| 1945 | March 15 | Bob Hope, John Cromwell |
| 1944 | March 2 | Jack Benny |
| 1943 | March 4 | Bob Hope |
| 1942 | February 26 | Bob Hope |
| 1941 | February 27 | Bob Hope |
| 1940 | February 29 | Bob Hope |
| 1939 | February 23 | No host |
| 1938 | March 10 | Bob Burns |
| 1937 | March 4 | George Jessel |
| 1936 | March 5 | Frank Capra |
| 1935 | February 27 | Irvin S. Cobb |
| 1934 | March 16 | Will Rogers |
| 1933 | November 18 | Lionel Barrymore, Conrad Nagel |
| 1932 | November 10 | Lawrence Grant |
| 1931 | November 5 | Conrad Nagel |
| 1930 | April 3 | William C. deMille |
| 1929 | May 16 | Douglas Fairbanks, William C. deMille |