Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres announced this morning that she will helm the 2014 Academy Awards.

“It’s official: I’m hosting the #Oscars! I’d like to thank @TheAcademy, my wife Portia and, oh dear, there goes the orchestra,” she wrote on Twitter.

“We are thrilled to have Ellen DeGeneres host the Oscars,” said producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who also produced the 2013 ceremony with Seth MacFarlane. “As a longtime friend, we had always hoped to find a project for us to do together and nothing could be more exciting than teaming up to do the Oscars. There are few stars today who have Ellen’s gift for comedy, with her great warmth and humanity. She is beloved everywhere and we expect that the audience at the Dolby Theatre, and in homes around the globe, will be as excited by this news as we are.”

“I am so excited to be hosting the Oscars for the second time. You know what they say – the third time’s the charm,” said DeGeneres in a press release.

This will be DeGeneres’ second time hosting the Academy Awards. Her first was the 79th annual event held in February 2007. It made her the first openly gay man or woman to ever host the award show. She was then nominated for an Emmy for her hosting job later that year.

The comedian is no stranger to hosting award shows. DeGeneres hosted the 2001 Emmy Awards, which was one of her biggest television appearances in her career at the time. In August 2005, she helmed the Primetime Emmy Awards. She also hosted the Grammy Awards in 1996 and 1997.

Ellen is the host of her titular talk show which has been on the air since 2004. She’s won Emmy Awards nearly every year since the show’s inception.

She’ll next be seen in the Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory in which her beloved blue fish will take the lead role.

The 2014 Oscars will be broadcast live Sunday, March 2, 2014 on ABC.