Will Smith cut into critics on Monday in a new music video, blasting claims that he’s “canceled” just over three years after ...

According to O’Brien, he pitched a promo in which he and a 9-foot-tall Oscar statuette were meant to be a domestic couple who were “fighting about things couples fight about.” “I thought ...

Walt Disney didn’t just make animation history — he made Academy Award history. To this day, Disney still holds many Academy Awards records, including the most competitive Oscars (a whopping 22) and ...

Speaking on his Oscars head writer Mike Sweeney’s podcast Conan Needs a Friend, O’Brien set the scene: he pitched a series of ads in which he and a 9-foot tall Oscar statue were in a domestic ...

This is a religious icon.” O’Brien and Sweeney also said that they wanted to put an apron on the Oscar statue and dress it up like a housewife serving O’Brien leftovers, but the Academy ...

Load the dishwasher?'” However, O’Brien and his team were told they couldn’t for a very bizarre reason: the Oscar couldn’t be horizontal. “We wanted to do it and they just said ...

The idea, according to Conan, was that a giant Oscar statue would remain completely motionless, but would be treated as if it was a person. This idea didn’t work for the Academy, not because of ...

One idea for a promo video that was scrapped for example, imagined O’Brien and a 9-foot-tall Oscar statuette as a couple at home. “We’re fighting about things couples fight about,” O ...

One of the rejected jokes placed O'Brien next to a 2.7-metre Oscar statue as if it were his partner: "We fought about things that couples fight about," he said. "At one point, I thought ...

Conan and his Oscars head writer Mike Sweeney were also keen to put an apron on the 9ft statue to depict it as a housewife. However, the Academy told them: “No clothing on Oscar. Oscar is always ...

he pitched a series of ads in which he and a 9-foot tall Oscar statue were in a domestic partnership, but the Academy wasn’t exactly receptive to how he wanted to utilize the statue specifically.