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The largest night time in Hollywood has come and gone, because the 2025 Oscars had been on Sunday, March 2 (at 7 p.m. stay on ABC) hosted by Conan O’Brien.
This 12 months, the primary showdown was between “The Substance,” “Anora,” “Wicked,” “Conclave,” “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Perez” and “A Complete Unknown,” with “Anora” taking house the Finest Image win.
Timothée Chalamet and Adrien Brody had been neck-in-neck in a good finest actor race, which Brody gained, whereas Demi Moore appeared like she had one of the best actress race within the bag after profitable each the Golden Globe and SAG Award — however Mikey Madison took house that trophy as an alternative.
This 12 months’s huge scandal was “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón, 52, who made historical past as the primary transgender lady to get a finest actress nomination, swiftly bought her awards marketing campaign derailed after her controversial social media posts resurfaced in January, resulting in her personal co-stars talking out.
Selena Gomez admitted that “some of the magic” in regards to the film “disappeared” because of the scandal and Zoe Saldaña mentioned she was “disappointed.”
Listed below are one of the best and worst moments of the night time.
Finest: Conan O’Brien’s playful monologue
Conan O’Brien is a longtime discuss present host, however this was his first time because the Oscars emcee. He knocked it out of the park with intelligent jokes about this 12 months’s movies (“Wicked” is the proper film, “for anyone who has ever finished watching ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and thought ‘sure, but where did all the minor characters go to college?’” he quipped).
He additionally carried out a musical quantity the place he sang, “I won’t waste time,” mocking the Oscar hosts’ tendencies to do exactly that, by trotting out the “Dune” sandworm to bounce with him “for no reason,” he mentioned.
Moreover, he amusingly introduced the sandworm costume out later within the present, joking, “When you spend that much on a bit, you’ve gotta do it twice.”
Most significantly, O’Brien rolled with the punches when just a few of his jokes didn’t land, and made them funnier by adjusting on the fly.
The nominated film “I’m Still Here” is about “a woman who forges ahead alone after her husband goes missing,” O’Brien mentioned, which his spouse known as, “the feel-good movie of the year.” When that so-so joke bought a weak response from the group, he mentioned, “Thanks, one guy!” implying that only one man laughed, which recovered the second and made it extra amusing.
Worst: Bizarre music placements
The 2025 Oscars started not with the host monologue, however with “Wicked” stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo singing a medley of songs from the musical resembling “Defying Gravity” and “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” from the unique “Wizard of Oz.” Their performances had been nice, and it’s acceptable for them to sing throughout the 12 months that “Wicked” landed 10 Oscar nominations.
However, that felt extra like a mid-show set piece, or perhaps a late-show efficiency to rally the viewers because the night time was winding down. Staging this prolonged spectacle in the beginning of the present made the pacing really feel prefer it was getting too lengthy — earlier than it even began.
Finest: Addressing the scandal within the room instantly
The Oscars wasted no time in addressing the Karla Sofía Gascón scandal, and didn’t make the viewers wait to see in the event that they’d dance round it.
Early in his opening monologue, O’Brien mentioned that one among this 12 months’s nominated movies, “Anora,” makes use of “the f-word 479 times.” He added, “That’s three more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascón’s publicist!”
The host added that the actress “is here tonight,” because the digicam lower to her cringing within the viewers. “And Karla, if you are gonna tweet about the Oscars, remember, my name is Jimmy Kimmel,” O’Brien mentioned.
Worst: Kieran Culkin will get censored in his acceptance speech
Kieran Culkin, 42, took house his first Oscar for finest supporting actor in “A Real Pain.”
Whereas he was onstage, Culkin turned to his former “Succession” onscreen brother, Jeremy Robust — who was sitting within the viewers, as he earned a finest supporting actor nomination for “The Apprentice” — and sweetly praised him. “You were great in ‘The Apprentice,’” Culkin started, earlier than the sound lower out, censoring him. Play the entire speech, cowards!
Culkin additionally amusingly mentioned that his spouse, Jazz Charton, 36 – whom he married in 2013 and has two children with – informed him that she’d give him 4 children when he gained an Oscar. Addressing her, he declared, “Let’s get crackin’ on those kids, what do you say?”
Finest: Zoe Saldana makes historical past
Saldana, 46, made historical past as she took house one of the best supporting actress Oscar for her function in “Emilia Pérez.”
“I am a proud child of immigrant parents…I am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an Academy Award. And, I know I won’t be the last,” The “Avatar” star mentioned in her speech.
Since 2013, Saldaña has been married to Italian artist and filmmaker Marco Perego, with whom she has three children. Perego sports activities a Fabio-style look of flowing golden locks, and Saldana bought amusing from the viewers as she thanked him for his help.
“To my husband, with that beautiful hair!”
Finest: The firefighters learn jokes
Midway via the present, O’Brien ushered out a big group of firefighters who helped battle the LA wildfires that devastated many celebrities’ properties. They bought a standing ovation from the group.
That may have been sufficient to make for a pleasant second, however then O’Brien sweetened the pot by making a number of of them learn jokes from the teleprompter that he wasn’t “brave enough” to make. He implored the viewers that they needed to chortle as a result of, “these are heroes!”
LAFD captain Eric Scott then learn the primary joke, “Our hearts go out to all of those who have lost their homes, and I’m talking about the producers of ‘Joker 2,’” referring to that film’s field workplace failure.
Pilot Jonith Johnson, in the meantime, learn the joke that mocked Bob Dylan’s vocals: “To play Bob Dylan, Timothée Chalamet learned how to sing – in fact, his singing was so good, he almost lost the part.”
Worst: Adrien Brody’s infinite speech
Adrien Brody, 51, gained finest actor for “The Brutalist,” 22 years after his first finest actor win for “The Pianist.” In his seemingly unending speech, he mentioned, “Winning an award like this signifies a destination and something my character references in the film. But to me, it also, beyond the pinnacle of a career, it is a chance to begin again and the opportunity to hopefully be fortunate enough so that the next 20 years of my life, I can prove that I am worthy of such meaningful, important and relevant roles.”
When the music started to play him off, Brody snapped, “I’m wrapping up, please turn the music off! I’ve done this before, this is not my first rodeo.”
However, Brody didn’t preserve it temporary after that. He continued rambling for some time longer, forcing the music to chop in once more, earlier than he threw within the towel and mentioned, “Okay! I’ll get out of here.”
