Once thought to be a thankless job, hosting has proven a shrewd career move for not only O’Brien, but also Nikki Glaser and ...

This year was Conan O'Brien's first time leading the show, which attracted its biggest broadcast audience in five years.

Mr. O’Brien received high marks for his work as the emcee of the 97th Oscar telecast this month. It was his first time ...

Whoopi Goldberg is an EGOT winner and her most recent win was at the 2025 Audie Awards, which recognizes audiobooks and ...

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 ...

Presenting the Oscars this year involved a higher-than-usual degree of difficulty, coming less than two months after Southern California’s devastating wildfires and amid a time of political ...

This was O’Brien’s first time captaining the Oscars, but he’s hosted the Emmys twice, in 2002 and 2006, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2013, the MTV Movie Awards in 2014 and ...

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Conan O'Brien will take center stage at the Oscars ... Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be emcee for the 97th Academy Awards, which recognizes artistic and technical excellence in the film ...

What value do the Academy Awards have at a time like this? O’Brien also evinced the producers’ willingness to pad out the ceremony with traditional Oscar pomp and circumstance, performing a ...

Host Conan O’Brien unleashed an (almost) explicit attack on President Trump at Sunday night’s Academy Awards. Early in the fourth hour of the show, Mr. O’Brien noted that “Anora” had ...