Oscars Host Conan O’Brien Featured In New Teaser Art Ahead Of March 2 Ceremony
deadline.comThe countdown is on to the 97th Oscars. The Academy today released teaser art ahead of the March 2 awards show featuring a gold-plated Conan O’Brien (see below), who will host the shindig for the first time.
No stranger to hosting awards shows, however, O’Brien hosted the Emmys to strong reviews in 2002 and 2006 and The MTV Movie Awards in 2014.
Of course, the Oscars ceremony will be held as the Los Angeles region continues to recover from the devastating wildfires that ravaged the region last month.
O’Brien, himself was displaced due to the fires, and told the AP in a recent interview that that show’s organizers “want to be sensitive to what’s happend” to residents.” “Everybody I know has been affected,” O’Brien told The Associated Press late last month. “I’m out of my house.
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