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Conan O’Brien’s Oscars Host Prep Includes ‘Invaluable’ Advice From Billy Crystal, Jimmy Kimmel
“If I think something could be funny, I will do it to my own detriment,” the comedian teases ahead of the March 2 ceremony
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Nick Offerman to Serve as Oscars Announcer, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe Added as Presenters
Other presenters will include Joe Alwyn, Sterling K. Brown, Ana de Armas, Selena Gomez, Ben Stiller and Oprah Winfrey
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Oscar-Nominated Shorts Filmmakers Swap Stories About Their Creative Process
TheWrap Screening Series: Nominees for live-action, documentary and animated shorts talk about the joy, trauma and universal human themes explored in their work
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The Lesson of This Week’s Awards Shows: While We Were Talking About ‘Emilia Pérez,’ People Were Already Voting for ‘Anora’
With Oscar voting beginning on Tuesday, has Sean Baker’s film quietly built the consensus it needs to win?
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Sean Baker Traces the Road to an Unlikely Oscar Frontrunner: ‘It’s Surreal, Quite Honestly’
TheWrap magazine: The director of “Anora” discusses the state of independent film: “I can’t imagine having to break in now”
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How Kobe Bryant Set Kris Bowers on the Path to an Odd Oscar Landmark
TheWrap magazine: “It’s a very small niche,” Bowers says of being nominated for documentary short one year and original score the next
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Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Bowen Yang to Present at 2025 Oscars
Whoopi Goldberg, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow and Elle Fanning are also among the presenters for the March 2 ceremony
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Where to Watch and Stream the 2025 Oscar Nominees
Several of this year’s nominees are already available on streaming with others taking a victory lap back in theaters
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This Weekend’s Big Awards Shows Won’t Mean as Much, Thanks to the ‘Emilia Pérez’ Mess
Critics Choice, Directors Guild and Producers Guild awards can be good Oscar predictors, but their voting mostly took place before the damaging revelations about Karla Sofía Gascón’s social media history
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Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Robert Downey Jr. to Present at 2025 Oscars
Conan O’Brien hosts the 97th Academy Awards March 2 on ABC and Hulu
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‘It’s All or Nothing for Me’: How Mikey Madison Gave Her Powder Keg Performance in ‘Anora’
TheWrap magazine: “I don’t like to do anything halfway,” says the soft-spoken actress whose turn as a sex worker earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress
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Karla Sofía Gascón to Skip Key Oscars Campaign Appearances After Apology, Fallout Over Racist Tweets
The “Emilia Pérez” actress is not expected to travel from Spain to L.A. for the AFI Awards luncheon, the Critics Choice Awards or the Producers Guild Awards
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Oscars Set Choreographer, Writing Team for 2025 Ceremony
The crew also includes longtime collaborators of Conan O’Brien, who is hosting for the first time
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With ‘Emilia Pérez’s Oscar Campaign in Crisis, the Hollywood Finger-Pointing Has Begun
Oscar campaigns are “warfare,” says one insider
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Karla Sofía Gascón’s Oscar Campaign Is Dead. Can ‘Emilia Pérez’ Survive?
The path forward for Netflix’s one-time Oscar frontrunner will have to involve both isolation and repudiation