ROCK TAVERN, New York -- The famous Oscar statues are made at a workshop in the Hudson Valley region of New York state. The iconic statuettes have been a symbol of the best in film since 1929.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...