CNS: The ratings for Sunday’s Academy Awards Oscars broadcast smashed the Oscars’ previous all-time low by nearly three million viewers.
After four straight years of decline, culminating in a then-record low viewership of 26.5 million in 2018, the Oscars’ ratings rose by about three million viewers in 2019 to when the ceremony stopped having a host. But, ratings plummeted six million viewers in 2020 to just 23.6 million, Variety reports:
“The 2020 Oscars ceremony was watched by the smallest audience the awards show has ever received.
“23.6 million viewers tuned in on Sunday night to see “Parasite” sweep to a surprise victory. That’s a 20%, 6 million viewer drop-off from last year. The Academy’s second hostless show in a row scored a 5.3 rating among adults 18-49 in the fast national ratings, a 31% dip from 2019.”
But, the Oscars aren’t the only entertainment awards to experience declining ratings. The Emmys, Golden Globes and Grammys have also suffered losses, Variety reports. more
Hollywood and actors in general should stay out of politics.
I think Americans are starting to reject letting the people who make their living pretending to be someone else tell them what to think and how they should live their lives.
Entertainment is no longer entertainment, it has become a subset of politics.
I don’t watch BooB Tube
so I wouldn’t know.
So Joaquin Phoenix won and proceeded to lecture about veganism, etc. as per the radio in my truck while driving to work next day.
“Shut up and dance monkey!” If I wanted to hear from an asshole I would fart or listen my Prime Minister!
By the way, now that we are on the subject:
The whole purpose of the Joker villain is that you do not know his origin, his back story, or his motivation.
The movie was fine (unfortunately my wife bought it) but it humanizes a sub-human, develops sympathy for an otherwise unsympathetic character, and gave an origin to a timeless and undefined evil. Mystery solved, character ruined.
Just my amateur opinion, but I’m out.
…I’m surprised the statue doesn’t look like Obama at this point, get used as a dildo by every recipient live on stage, and that they don’t have a category for Best Hysterical Performance by a House Democrat for Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi, et. al., along with one for Best Deep State Supporting Actor for FORMER Ambassadors and FORMER NSA uniform-mocking guys.
…or maybe they DO. I’m not really paying any attention to these things. If I want a lecture from someone who imagines they are multiple other people, the Democrats have caused guys like THAT to panhandle on pretty much EVERY street corner, so I don’t need to waste electricity for it, just driving around town is sufficient…
Clint Eastwood is about the last conservative left. Once he’s gone the whole entertainment industry will tilt into the abyss.
Unless you are a nutty lefty who loves to hear your
fellow America haters scream about how bad it is,
why in the world would you watch that crap?
…although maybe a special one, the Arlen Specter award, can be given for Best Democrat Performance By A Senator Pretending to be a Republican.
…I leave it to your imagination who THAT would go to THIS year…
Who wants to see a bunch of self-aggrandizing nutbags giving themselves awards?
How many times do they expect to get awarded for slightly different versions of the same movies?
Their product is as boring as their political rants.
It’s always been a self-congratulatory circle-jerk, but then Marlon Brando injected politics into it 50 years ago, and everyone since then seems to be trying to out-virtue-signal everyone else. Who watches this shit?
I can increase the ratings for next year with just a couple of moves. First, hire Ricky Gervais to host, with the conditions that no one will review or revise his script or censor any of his comments. Then bring on Kevin Hart to co-host, and give him carte blanche to go after the SJWs who bitched about his old remarks on social media
“The Rock” $75 million last year. The top 10 women and men all making 10s of millions a year. For what? Make believe that children do everyday. I cringe when I watch the “behind the scenes” making of tv and movies. Like little kids running around going “band, bang.”
I hope it translates to box office crashes as well.
It came on after the news and I was playing along until some black guy wearing a prom dress started interviewing Spike Lee. Wheres that remote!?!
Unless paid to watch that incestuous drivel, why would you?
A freak parade of rich, selfish, hubristic, nihilistic, megalomaniacally egocentric, mostly talent-less, perverted stooges who read other peoples’ lines.
Never saw the attraction.
izlamo delenda est …
It’s not about the Academy Awards – that’s just the pre-orgy entertainment…
The real news is that 23.6 million people watched this bullshit. I don’t care how much the numbers are down from last year, that’s a lot of idiots that will need to be reckoned with.
But, but Brad Pitt!!
I bet that pretty wuss doesn’t know how to work a ziploc baggie.
Most actors are so messed up they seek counseling from psychiatrists, who are probably as sick in the head as their patients.
It’s written in the Bible: The blind leading the blind.
Actress Pam Anderson, a sick person, marries another sick person, and it lasts 12 days. This is an action carried out by very disturbed people.