The 98th Annual Academy Awards premiered on ABC last night and it was another left-wing awards show hate fest.
Host Conan O'Brien initially opened the show with a funny sketch, offering a brief moment of hope that this ceremony might be different than all the previous ones this season.
Satirically done up like the villain Aunt Gladys from last year's hit horror movie Weapons, he paraded through nominated movie scenes dressed as the clownish-looking character.
But after the skit ended and his opening monologue commenced, all hope was lost for a fun night of apolitical humor.
"I should warn you tonight could get political. Okay? And if that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternative Oscars hosted by Kid Rock at the Dave and Buster's down the street,” he said.
After taking a dig at half of America, he then falsely implied Trump was a pedophile, just as Trevor Noah had done at this year's Grammy Awards.
"It's the first time since 2012, the first time since 2012 that there are no British actors nominated for best actor or best actress. Yeah. British spokesperson said, yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles. So, we've got that going for us," he said.
This "joke" was particularly offensive as it ignored the Pakistani rape gangs that have run rampant for decades in Britain.
Conan O’Brien: “It’s the first time since 2012 that there are no British actors nominated for best actor. A British spokesperson said well at least we arrest our pedophiIes.”
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 16, 2026
The UK literally covered up muslim rape gangs for years and let pedos roam freepic.twitter.com/8HR5gEHoKm
O'Brien has also apparently never heard of BBC star and British pedophile Jimmy Savile, among others.
Then O’Brien got "serious" and fell into the doomsday rhetoric that animates left-wing discourse. “If I can be serious for just a moment, everyone watching right now, around the world, is very aware that these are very chaotic, frightening times. It’s at moments like these that I believe that the Oscars are particularly resonant.”
Whenever a Democratic candidate wins the U.S. presidency, all is well in the world. Whenever a Republican wins, the world is on the brink of destruction. This has been the Hollywood mentality since Reagan's presidency, if not earlier, and such hysteria has only grown worse.
O'Brien's worst quip of the night was a genitalia joke at the president's expense, saying “We’re coming to you live from the Has a Small Penis Theater. Let’s see him put his name in front of that!”
Conan O’Brien hosting #Oscars: “We’re coming to you live from the Has a Small Penis Theater. Let’s see him put his name in front of that!” pic.twitter.com/l3yC0SOmay
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) March 15, 2026
As if O'Brien was not bad enough, along came Jimmy Kimmel to present the documentary awards. Kimmel had called the United States "a ridiculous country" earlier in the evening while on the red carpet. He continued with his hostility while on stage.
“We hear a lot about courage at shows like this, but telling a story that could get you killed for telling it is real courage. As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say which. Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS,” Kimmel said.
The left-wing free speech larp is infuriating when you recall how they cheered on Biden-era censorship that destroyed conservative livelihoods. It took a billionaire buying Twitter and Trump's re-election to restore free speech rights.
Kimmel later mocked the new Melania Trump documentary and added that Trump would be mad that his wife was not nominated in the Best Documentary Feature Film category. Since Melania Trump's documentary was released in 2026 and ineligible for nomination, the joke made no sense.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin won that. Co-director David Borenstein said that the movie was “about how you lose your country, and what we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity. When we act complicit, when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities when we don’t say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice.”
Under the spell of Trump Derangement Syndrome, leftists truly believe that Borenstein's description not only applies to Russia, but also America under Trump.
Award winners continued to condescendingly lecture the American people about their voting habits throughout the rest of the night, without ever actually saying the president's name.
One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson called for "common sense and decency" after winning the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Ironic considering that his film is an ode to antifa-style left-wing violence. One Battle After Another won six Oscars, including Best Picture.
Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, winner of Best Foreign Film for Sentimental Value, quoted from James Baldwin, that “all adults are responsible for all children, and let’s not vote for politicians who don’t take this seriously into account," arrogantly implying that over 50% of American voters do not care about their children.
No awards show this year would be complete without an idiot actor yelling "Free Palestine." That moment was provided by actor Javier Bardem, who lives in Israel-hating Spain.
“No to war. And free Palestine” – actor Javier Bardem on stage at #Oscars. That got loud applause. pic.twitter.com/svR3sTPOhG
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) March 16, 2026
On the red-carpet before the show, One Piece actor Charithra Chandran demanded a "ceasefire in Palestine," unaware that a ceasefire happened six months ago.
‘One Piece’ actress Charithra Chandran demands ceasefire in Gaza- despite a ceasefire for the past 6 months.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 16, 2026
“What we are demanding is a ceasefire in Gaza and I think I am so blessed to have a platform and this is the least I can do to use it.” pic.twitter.com/LCmfveTS50
The in memoriam portion of the Oscars notably left out French film icon Brigitte Bardot. Bardot, who died in December, had appeared in nearly 50 movies. Her memory was likely erased from the night because she was convicted for criticism of Islam under France's hate speech laws. So much for believing in free speech.
The Oscar night finally ended after three very long hours and forty-four additional minutes, not that I was counting. Americans will have to wait until the Emmy Awards in September for another round of anti-American lecturing from Hollywood celebrities they barely know or care about anymore.