Oscars 2025 best and worst moments: Conan O’Brien, Zoe Saldaña, Kieran Culkin — and that huge Best Picture shocker

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as the 2025 Oscars were on Sunday, March 2 (at 7 p.m. live on ABC) hosted by Conan O’Brien. This year, the main showdown was between “The Substance,” “Anora,” “Wicked,” “Conclave,” “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Perez” and “A Complete Unknown,” with “Anora” taking home the Best Picture win.Timothée Chalamet and Adrien Brody were neck-in-neck in a tight best actor race, which Brody won, while Demi Moore seemed like she had the best actress race in the bag after winning both the Golden Globe and SAG Award — but Mikey Madison took home that trophy instead.This year’s big scandal was “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón, 52, who made history as the first transgender woman to get a best actress nomination, swiftly got her awards campaign derailed after her controversial social media posts resurfaced in January, leading to her own co-stars speaking out.Selena Gomez admitted that “some of the magic” about the movie “disappeared” due to the scandal and Zoe Saldaña said she was “disappointed.” Here are the best and worst moments of the night.Conan O’Brien is a longtime talk show host, but this was his first time as the Oscars emcee.

He knocked it out of the park with clever jokes about this year’s films (“Wicked” is the perfect movie, “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).