Conan O'Brien said he does not think he can avoid politics when he steps on the stage on Sunday to host the Academy Awards, the highest honors in the movie business. Past hosts and winners in traditionally liberal Hollywood often commented on current events,

“He’s a lovely person, number one. He’s a humanist. He’s apolitical,” the academy’s CEO, Bill Kramer, told CNN’s Wagmeister about his goal to “absolutely” have a politics-free telecast.