First-time Oscars host Conan O’Brien roasted nominees and the trade in his 2025 Academy Awards opening monologue on Sunday evening. He’s taking up for repeat host Jimmy Kimmel, who sat this 12 months out however got here up in O’Brien’s beginning set.
Karla Sofía Gascón, the controversy-embroiled, history-making trans Finest Actress nominee who leads “Emilia Pérez,” attended the occasion in any case. In any other case, she’s abstained from attending American awards exhibits and occasions since her inflammatory previous tweets resurfaced on the finish of January. Gascón, a Spanish actress who has spoken in her narrative language all through the awards season, seemed to be receiving English translations of O’Brien’s remarks from a companion sitting subsequent to her.
“Little reality for you: ‘Anora’ makes use of the F phrase 479 occasions,” O’Brien stated. “That’s three greater than the file set by Karla Sofía Gascón’s publicist.” O’Brien then imitated one in every of Gascón’s reps, in a high-pitched voice: “You tweeted WHAT?”
He then added, “Karla, if you happen to’re going to tweet concerning the Oscars, bear in mind, my identify is Jimmy Kimmel.”
Earlier within the set, he additionally took goal at streamer Netflix. “Netflix leads all studios with a powerful 18 — depend them — 18 worth will increase. I believe they will beat that subsequent 12 months.” (Netflix did earn 18 nominations altogether, together with 13 for “Emilia Pérez,” making the Spanish-language musical probably the most nominated movies of all time.)
He additionally joked, honing in on an issue obsessing Hollywood in the mean time, “I need you to know we didn’t use AI to make this present. We might by no means try this. We use youngster labor.”
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