Stars including Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jesse Eisenberg, Conan O'Brien and Edward Norton walk the red carpet at the 2025 Academy Awards. (March 2)

Conan O'Brien is hosting the 97th Academy Awards, which honor the best in cinema from the past year. "Emilia Pérez" leads the field of nominees this year with 13 total Oscar nominations, just one shy of tying the record for most nominations by a single film held by "All About Eve,

The 97th Academy Awards will take place this weekend. The show will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, and it will be available to watch live on TV as usual. This year's host is comedian and actor Conan O'Brien.

Academy Awards are coming up this weekend - the illustrious ceremony is on March 2nd this year hosted by Conan O'Brien. Leading up this big Hollywood event, many talented poster designers have been creating their annual set of poster designs for the 10 Best Picture nominees.

Conan O'Brien did not hold back during his opening monologue at the 2025 Academy Awards roasting a variety of celebrities –– including actress Karla Sofía Gascón. The 61-year-old comedian served as the host for the highly anticipated award show,

During his monologue, O'Brien singled out his longtime friend for being "dressed like a guy playing video poker at 2 a.m."

Oscars joke writer Skyler Higley defended the Kendrick Lamar and Drake joke he wrote for the 97th Academy Awards monologue. He explained the joke was in reference to the cultural moment and that O'Brien was not taking sides in the rappers' feud.

Emilia Pérez' star Karla Sofía Gascón called Conan O'Brien a "fantastic" Oscars emcee after the host joked about her offensive tweets.

Conan O’Brien was funny, witty, heartfelt, and sincere. He’ll go down as delivering one of the best Oscar opening monologues in history. Oh my god please let Conan O’Brien host every Oscars ceremony from now on

Shortly after it aired, comedian and writer Skyler Higley—a former writer on Conan’s self-titled late-night show and a member of the team of writers Conan assembled for his Oscars gig—tweeted his thanks to the Academy for keeping the joke in,

TV funnyman Conan O'Brien took the stage as host of the 97th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night as the 2025 Oscar nominees competed for top honors . O'Brien inherited hosting duties from fellow comedian and late-night star Jimmy Kimmel, who presided over the Oscars four times before.