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 ...

There was a giant Oscar statue, and I shot something with it. It was really fun.” He came up with a funny idea where he and the Oscar statue would be like a bickering couple living together ...

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 ...

One of the rejected jokes placed O'Brien next to a 2.7-metre Oscar statue as if it were his partner: "We fought about things that couples fight about," he said. "At one point, I thought ...

he pitched a series of ads in which he and a 9-foot tall Oscar statue were in a domestic partnership, but the Academy wasn’t exactly receptive to how he wanted to utilize the statue specifically.