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A comparatively uneventful Oscar telecast led the way on TV Sunday night — though updated numbers have the telecast somewhat predictably stumbling to an all-time low. Thekudocast, nearly four hours long, stumbled 19 percent from the previous year to 26.5 million viewers. That’s easily the lea...
was up 12% from last year’s ratings. And according to those time-zone-adjusted fast-national numbers from Nielsen, it bested the previous year’s 3.8 rating by 5% in key adults 18-49, earning a 4.0 in the demo.
There's always a possibility for something truly unexpected to happen at the Oscars. Here are the biggest snubs, surprises, shockers, gaffes, fashion faux pas and more from the first 94 years!
RatingsShow all Sort byFeatured 8/10 Fantastic performance by Peter Finch I initially rented The Trials of Oscar Wilde because it was James Mason's time as Star of the Week. Somehow, in the 1960s, he got second billing in a bunch of movies but was only in them for fifteen minutes. Lo...
(after “bonnie & clyde” and “chinatown”), faye dunaway hit the jackpot in the sidney lumet-directed satire of the ruthless tv biz and the public’s thirst for low-brow shocks. she plays an executive whose quest for ratings drives her network to success, but at a high price. louise...
"The Last of Us" Season 1 finale set a new series record for viewership on linear TV and HBO Max during the 95th Academy Awards telecast.
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Now that the entire world has a reason to think about the Oscars, there is a good chance that there might be renewed interest in them next year. And no, of course I don’t think that means the Academy should encourage acts of violence to bring up the ratings. Unscripted moments...