As wildfires burn throughout SoCal, host Conan O'Brien discusses how the 97th Academy Awards will adjust to acknowledge the catastrophe.

O’Brien said he was in a meeting about his upcoming gig as the host of the Oscars when he got a call from his wife Liza about seeing "some smoke"

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O'Brien, who moves to L.A. from Massachusetts, opened up about what he and his wife went through during the course of the Los Angeles wildfires, which are still ongoing. He said that they were evacuated and displaced from their home, staying at a hotel in the meantime.

Academy Awards will proceed as planned on March 2, but the comedian is relying on intuition and empathy to guide him through the preparation process for his Oscars hosting debut

Bronstein, a bit of a cult figure in the film world, made her directorial debut in 2008 at the SXSW festival with “Yeast,” which featured a pre-fame Greta Gerwig and was hailed by by New Yorker critic Richard Brody as a “mumblecore classic.”

"I am honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized not for humor," O'Brien said in a statement, "but for my work as a riverboat pilot”

The stage is set. Conan O’Brien is ready for his hosting return. The red carpet will soon be rolled out for the annual Academy Awards, taking place in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfire crisis. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman get the lowdown on the noms,

O'Brien's first time hosting the Academy Awards comes with a twinge of tragedy, but the comedian doesn't plan on shying away from it.

PARK CITY, Utah — Oscars host Conan O'Brien says he's still unable to live in his home due to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and that the show's organizers “want to be sensitive to what's happened” to residents.

Conan O'Brien reflected on preparing to host the Oscars for the first time amid the  Los Angeles fires that have ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena.