When Conan O'Brien emerged onto the stage at the 2025 Oscars for his opening monologue, he did so in a rather unusual way: by crawling out of Demi Moore's spine in a morbid homage to Best Picture nominee The Substance.

Conan O’Brien debuted on the Oscars stage with his signature self deprecation, jabs about Netflix price increases, and the three-and-a-half hour run time of “The Brutalist.” “I didn’t want it to end—and luckily it didn’t,

Oscars host Conan O’Brien had plenty of opinions in his opening monologue of this year’s Academy Awards. He took shots at The Brutalist’s length, Karla Sofía Gascón’s racist tweets, and Dune: Part Two’s confusing nature.