For Deadline’s live blog for the 97th Oscars, Deadline Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Mike Fleming and Executive Editor, Television Peter White were locked in to the nearly four-hour show with help from Oscarologists Pete Hammond and Baz Bamigboye and Deadline’s social media whiz Natalie Sitek, who were hunkered down inside the Dolby Theater.
Conan O’Brien, who has been living in a hotel since the L.A. wildfires after being evacuated, was in charge of Sunday’s proceedings at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, joking earlier this week that he needed the money even though it “pays very little.”
Here’s how it went down