The Academy Awards season is almost here, and we’ve got a new promo starring Conan O’Brien to hype up fans for the upcoming event. It’s not just your ordinary commercial as the famed comedian suffers from a devastating marriage breakup—with the Oscar statue!
Conan O’Brien / Credits: TBS
Is this officially confirming that the iconic golden statue is a proud member of the LGBTQ community? We think so! The award-giving body never actually confirmed its gender, although it was modeled after a male figure.
Conan O’Brien argues with Oscar statue for this year’s Academy Awards teaser
The new ad for Oscars 2025 featured a hilarious skit from Conan O’Brien fighting with the Oscar statue over several matters, mostly hinting at a relationship problem. Towards the end of the video clip, Martin Scorsese supposedly calls O’Brien, with the latter saying, “Wow, what a surprise. Yeah,...
Conan O’Brien / Credits: TBS
Is this officially confirming that the iconic golden statue is a proud member of the LGBTQ community? We think so! The award-giving body never actually confirmed its gender, although it was modeled after a male figure.
Conan O’Brien argues with Oscar statue for this year’s Academy Awards teaser
The new ad for Oscars 2025 featured a hilarious skit from Conan O’Brien fighting with the Oscar statue over several matters, mostly hinting at a relationship problem. Towards the end of the video clip, Martin Scorsese supposedly calls O’Brien, with the latter saying, “Wow, what a surprise. Yeah,...
- 2/20/2025
- by Ariane Cruz
- FandomWire
Mexican actress Marga Lopez dies
MEXICO CITY -- Film and television actress Marga Lopez, whose brilliant career took off during Mexico's golden age of cinema in the 1940s and '50s, died of heart failure in a Mexico City hospital on Monday. She was 81. Born Catalina Margarita Lopez in Argentina in 1924, she changed her name after moving to Mexico and became a Mexican citizen in 1955. During a career that spanned nearly seven decades, she appeared in more than 100 films, television series and plays. On the screen, Lopez starred in Luis Bunuel's Nazarin and Emilio Fernandez's Salon Mexico.
- 7/5/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cannes Classics fetes Mexico
PARIS -- Organizers of the Festival de Cannes on Thursday unveiled the complete lineup of the Cannes Classics section dedicated to historic films from around the world. Now in its second year, the selection pays tribute to Mexican cinema with screenings of a restored copy of the 1950 film Los Olvidados, directed by Luis Bunuel, and a miniretrospective of the work of Emilio Fernandez, three of whose movies will unspool at Cannes. The British Film Institute has put together a program of restored films by U.K. director Michael Powell to mark the centenary of his birth.
- 4/29/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cannes Classics fetes Mexico
PARIS -- Organizers of the Festival de Cannes on Thursday unveiled the complete lineup of the Cannes Classics section dedicated to historic films from around the world. Now in its second year, the selection pays tribute to Mexican cinema with screenings of a restored copy of the 1950 film Los Olvidados, directed by Luis Bunuel, and a miniretrospective of the work of Emilio Fernandez, three of whose movies will unspool at Cannes. The British Film Institute has put together a program of restored films by U.K. director Michael Powell to mark the centenary of his birth.
- 4/29/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mexican cinema tribute part of Cannes Classics lineup
PARIS -- Organizers of the Festival de Cannes on Thursday unveiled the complete lineup of the Cannes Classics section dedicated to historic films from around the world. Now in its second year, the selection pays tribute to Mexican cinema with screenings of a restored copy of the 1950 picture Los Olvidados and a mini-retrospective of the work of Emilio Fernandez, three of whose movies will unspool. The British Film Institute has put together a program of restored films by U.K. director Michael Powell to mark the centenary of his birth. Also on the menu are two films restored by the Academy Film Archive under the aegis of the Film Foundation, the movie preservation organization founded in 1990 by Martin Scorsese and seven other leading American directors. Unspooling at Cannes will be Jean Renoir's 1951 The River and Satyajit Ray's 1955 work Pather Panchali.
- 4/28/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mexican cinema tribute part of Cannes Classics lineup
PARIS -- Organizers of the Festival de Cannes on Thursday unveiled the complete lineup of the Cannes Classics section dedicated to historic films from around the world. Now in its second year, the selection pays tribute to Mexican cinema with screenings of a restored copy of the 1950 picture Los Olvidados and a mini-retrospective of the work of Emilio Fernandez, three of whose movies will unspool. The British Film Institute has put together a program of restored films by U.K. director Michael Powell to mark the centenary of his birth. Also on the menu are two films restored by the Academy Film Archive under the aegis of the Film Foundation, the movie preservation organization founded in 1990 by Martin Scorsese and seven other leading American directors. Unspooling at Cannes will be Jean Renoir's 1951 The River and Satyajit Ray's 1955 work Pather Panchali.
- 4/28/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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