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The Academy Awards — 97th Oscars

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Critics Consensus

The 97th Oscars won't win any awards for brevity, but it earns kudos for a genuinely celebratory mood and the comedic stylings of fresh-faced new kid on the block, Conan O'Brien.

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Judy Berman TIME Magazine 03/05/2025
The best moments of this hosting gig were just Conan being Conan, letting the winners enjoy their spotlight and laughing at himself to make everyone else feel comfortable. Go to Full Review Coleman Spilde Salon.com 03/04/2025
The show was so desperately trying to meet the world at the moment it's in, but it took the winners to give this year’s Oscar ceremony a point. Go to Full Review Richard Brody The New Yorker 03/04/2025
Like the franchise films and crowd-pleasing I.P. that the Academy largely spurns, the show is a big-budget production so gaudy and overblown, so calculating in its precise doses of emotion and glamour, that it is by now borderline unwatchable. Go to Full Review Kevin Fallon The Daily Beast 06/10/2025
The Oscars seemed to know it had a moment to meet. It just didn’t seem to know which moment that was, where it was, or how to find it. The result was a telecast that seemed, as that sentence would suggest, completely lost. Go to Full Review Matt Roush TV Insider 03/05/2025
The impulse to add entertainment value to the show is understandable, but this year it just made a long night even longer. Go to Full Review Michael Clark Epoch Times 03/05/2025
Conan O’Brien did something I didn’t think was possible: he made the Oscars fun again. In his first outing as host, in front of the largest worldwide audience he’ll ever have, he was in peak form, and much could be said about the rest of the broadcast. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Noah S. @Noah2002 Mar 16 The Anora sweep annoyed me, but Conan was fun! See more Sang P @RT70701392 03/11/2025 I only watched it for Conan! See more Alex M @RT82987306 03/09/2025 NO Oscars for me EVER Again!! Is a JOKE. See more V K @RT65628416 03/08/2025 this is cringe. anora, this sh.t? wtf? oscar is a complete scam and a joke... The last Oscar I watched… See more Jonathan O @RT41230270 03/08/2025 Conan O'Brian is the best oscar host! See more Slick R @SlickReviewer 03/08/2025 The intro where they used The Substance and Conan crawled out of Demi was actually kinda funny. But the rest of the show was pretty mid. It seemed like each pair of announcers never knew where to go on stage like they didn't even rehearse at all. That kind of sloppiness makes the show cheap. I had watched most of the movies that were nominated and I was pretty surprised that a movie about a stripper/escort with lots of partying and sex scenes won best picture and best lead actress. This made it pretty clear that the award shows are somewhat rigged. Anora is like a streaming movie at best. If Anora was the best movie that Hollywood could come out with, the industry is in trouble. I saw Wicked in the theater and even though I've seen the Broadway play a million times, I thought it should have won best picture based on the quality of acting, singing, dancing and pure production. Maybe the Academy is just tired of old stories and enjoyed Mikey Madison butt naked and getting railed throughout Anora. See more Read all reviews
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Conan O'Brien

Host

Raj Kapoor

Executive Producer

Katy Mullan

Executive Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Mar 2, 2025 97th Oscars Details

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Season Info

Executive Producer
Raj Kapoor, Katy Mullan
Network
ABC
Genre
Special Interest
Release Date
Mar 2, 2025