Who hosted the 2025 Academy Awards? All about Oscars host Conan O’Brien.
The Oscars had been held Sunday evening, and TV funnyman Conan O’Brien took the stage as host of the 97th annual Academy Awards because the 2025 nominees competed for high honors.
O’Brien inherited internet hosting duties from fellow comic and late-night star Jimmy Kimmel, who presided over the Oscars 4 occasions earlier than.
“America demanded it and now it is occurring: Taco Bell’s new Tacky Chalupa Supreme. In different information, I am internet hosting the Oscars,” O’Brien stated in a press release when he was introduced as host.
The Oscars ceremony was broadcast on ABC on Sunday evening from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, in Los Angeles.
Who’s Conan O’Brien?
Conan O’Brien is greatest identified for internet hosting the late-night speak reveals “Late Night time with Conan O’Brien,” “The Tonight Present with Conan O’Brien” and “Conan.”
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O’Brien, now 61, spent practically three many years as a late-night host. In 2015, he turned the “longest-working present late evening speak present host” within the U.S., following David Letterman’s retirement, in keeping with TBS.
This was his first time because the Oscar host, however he has completed the honors for different high-profile awards reveals, together with internet hosting the Emmys in 2002 and 2006.
Earlier than he turned a well known TV character, O’Brien was a author for “Saturday Night time Dwell” and “The Simpsons.”
Who hosted the Oscars up to now?
O’Brien joined an illustrious checklist of Oscar hosts that features the likes of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, David Letterman, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, Hugh Jackman and Neil Patrick Harris.
“He joins an iconic roster of comedy greats who’ve served on this position, and we’re so fortunate to have him heart stage for the Oscars,” stated Craig Erwich, president of the Disney Tv Group, when O’Brien was named.
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Jimmy Kimmel, Whoopi Goldberg and Jack Lemmon have every hosted the present 4 occasions, whereas three-timers embrace Jerry Lewis and David Niven.
Carson hosted 5 occasions and Crystal hosted for the ninth time in 2012.
Bob Hope holds the report for probably the most occasions internet hosting the Oscars, serving as grasp of ceremonies 19 occasions.
In 2014, Ellen DeGeneres, in her second time internet hosting the Academy Awards, set a report for probably the most retweets with a celebrity-packed selfie that included Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep.
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Nevertheless, not all internet hosting decisions work out fairly as properly.
When Anne Hathaway co-hosted the ceremony with James Franco in 2012, it was extensively panned because the Academy’s awkward try to draw youthful viewers.
In 2018, the Hollywood Reporter known as being the Oscars host “the least wished job in Hollywood” following Kevin Hart’s sudden departure forward of his deliberate 2019 internet hosting duties, amid controversy over some previous feedback.
That yr, the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences determined towards having a number for the primary time in 30 years and did not have an official host once more till 2022, when Regina Corridor, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes co-hosted the ceremony. That present, nonetheless, was overshadowed by Will Smith slapping Chris Rock within the face onstage over a joke Rock made about Smith’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith.
