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ratings are down 9% from last year’s post-pandemic high of 19.7
million viewers who tuned in for O'Brien's inaugural year as
host, when “Anora” swept the awards. The show also yielded a
more significant 14% decline from last year in viewership from
adults aged 18-49.
Sunday’s Oscars saw a showdown between two Warner Bros. films,
“One Battle After Another” and “Sinners,” with the former
winning best picture and director. Michael B. Jordan won best
actor for “Sinners,” the most nominated film in history, with
16, that also broke the record for the most losses by a single
film, with 12.
And yet despite the dip in audience, the Oscars are still the
No. 1 primetime entertainment telecast of the 2025-2026 season.
The Golden Globes, which aired on CBS in January, drew an
audience of 8.7 million viewers which was itself down 7% from
the year prior.
Engagement for the Oscars rose by other metrics, though.
Primetime social impressions went up over 42% this year. And
there were over 129 million video views on Academy social
platforms throughout the night.
The Oscars, like many other awards shows, saw an all-time low in
2021 during the pandemic with only 10.4 million viewers. At its
height in the 1990s it often attracted around 45 million
viewers. Its peak came in 1998, when “Titanic” won best picture
and 57.2 million people watched.
Broadcast ratings will no longer be a metric of the success for
the Oscars in 2029, when the show moves to YouTube for its 101st
awards.
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