This year's Anoralist Oscars turn out to have drawn a larger audience than last year's Barbenheimer Oscars, so maybe we can finally put to rest the idea that the popularity of the movies in the race has any correlation to interest in the show?
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I watched because I was thrilled that The Substance was nominated for best picture, I was hoping for a Demi Moore win at least. It was a wild year for body horror fans
Conclave was going strong this awards season (and rightfully so). But I guess Pope’s current near death state influenced the later voting. A witty movie about Catholics and choosing the new Pope was too hot to touch.
I had no idea who most of the Oscar attendees are. I'd like to keep it that way. I already have plenty of useless knowledge in my head that I need to jettison.
Is it possible that the ratings include the multiple logins into Hulu? It crashed at least a dozen times for us and the only solution was to click out and come back in. The Hulu app really sucked.
2025 & 2024 viewership is hard to compare because this year, for the first time, ABC simulcast the ceremony on HULU, adding hundreds of thousands of viewers using streaming and mobile devices. Had the show been on HULU I 2024, the Barbenheimer Oscars would have been even bigger.
We wanted to see Demi Moore win. Timothy Chalomette win. And wanted to see how much time they focused on LA fire victims compared to thanking themselves for how amazingly they can make believe.
Thanks to Demi Moore and they missed a chance to award that much superior performance. Only reason I (and lots of others) tuned in when I usually don’t. I’ve pretty much ignored the Oscars since Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan
I think this year is the first to include streaming so can you actually compare it to last year’s numbers? You’d have to include an estimate for streaming in 2024.
Wicked has more rabid fans than Barbie. Barbie just had more broad appeal than a musical, but the parasocial relationship Wicked fans have with the material more than makes up for it. And people hyped knowing Cynthia and Ariana were singing far outweighed those excited for "I'm Just Ken."
The point is that you can’t say the Oscars still draws a lot of viewers even when small films are winners. The whole point of the expanding the nominees to 10 was to draw fans of bigger movies.
I had heard that it was on Hulu, but I guess I'm confused because broadcast channels are free and can be accessed with a cheap digital antenna in most places. I kinda thought everyone got free TV that way.🤷🏻♀️
It was also available on a streaming service.
If it was just ABC I would have never watched.
The only movie I was interested in was Wicked.
That John Chu wasn't nominated was a joke
the not-particularly-impressive bump last year should have done it, but folks are really wedded to the idea you can reverse a global shift away from live TV by nominating a Marvel
It might be kinda neat for them to be a smidge like the Tonys. Rather than showing clips of the nominated movies, have the actors do a live scene. You could even do stunt-recasting for some of them.
If the ratings improved and the show lasted longer than prior years, can we just go ahead and bring back the Governors Awards? Those winners deserve their moment in the spotlight.
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I saw Conclave, that’s pretty much it.
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This year's Oscars, also starting at 7 p.m., was a week before Daylight Savings Time.
That may have helped viewership this year.
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Important reminder or grim warning? Only time will tell.
We like to watch Jeopardy while we eat dinner, so I guess we're officially old people. Lol
If it was just ABC I would have never watched.
The only movie I was interested in was Wicked.
That John Chu wasn't nominated was a joke