Oscars

Roughly 18.7m US viewers tune in, making Sunday the third-least watched Oscars since tracking began.

The scaled-back ceremony in 2021 was the least-watched Oscars of all time. The Oscars were viewed by 10.4 million people in 2021 and 16.6 million in 2022. The 95th Academy Awards were watched by an average of 18.7 million people in the US, a 12% increase over 2022, overnight figures show.

Viewership is up almost 80% from a 2021 low, but the Academy Awards remain a long way off from attracting the audience they used to.

The 2023 Grammy Awards also had a notable ratings boost, attracting 12.5 million viewers on average, compared to 9.6 million last year, while ratings for this year’s [Golden Globes](https://variety.com/vip/2022-emmys-ratings-analysis-1235371728/) cratered 26% from 2022 and September’s primetime [Emmy Awards](https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/golden-globes-ratings-2023-nbc-1235482220/) had its smallest audience ever. [ slap of Chris Rock](https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/03/12/how-the-2023-oscars-addressed-will-smiths-chris-rock-slap-one-year-later/?sh=708f24547719) at the 2022 event, which sparked a social media firestorm and a boost in ratings during the latter portion of last year’s broadcast. But Everything Everywhere All At Once [ruled the night, winning](https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/03/12/academy-awards-2023-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-dominates-ceremony/?sh=14d33cbdb1d0) seven of the 11 awards it was nominated for, including the top honor of the night: best picture. [How The 2023 Oscars Addressed Will Smith’s Chris Rock Slap—One Year Later](https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/03/12/how-the-2023-oscars-addressed-will-smiths-chris-rock-slap-one-year-later/?sh=708f24547719) (Forbes) [Academy Awards 2023: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Dominates Oscars](https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/03/12/academy-awards-2023-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-dominates-ceremony/?sh=14d33cbdb1d0) (Forbes) [Defying Recent Award Show Trends, Grammys Audience Grows By 30%](https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2023/02/07/defying-recent-award-show-trends-grammys-audience-grows-by-30/?sh=33b7c4db698d) (Forbes) [starting to turn around](https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2023/02/07/defying-recent-award-show-trends-grammys-audience-grows-by-30/?sh=33b7c4db698d). [ multiple](https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/2023-oscar-ratings-academy-awards-audience-1235550070/) [ reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/business/oscars-viewers-ratings.html), citing Nielsen data, but the 18.7 million people that watched this year’s ceremony on average is still woefully low by the program’s historical standards.

The Academy Awards telecast on Sunday attracted roughly 18.7 million U.S. television viewers to the film industry's highest honors, according to data ...

ABC said Sunday's awards were the subject of 27.4 million interactions on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Viewership of many awards ceremonies has dropped in recent years as audiences have ditched traditional television for streaming and social media. Multiverse adventure "Everything Everywhere All at Once" took home best picture and [dominated the awards.](/lifestyle/champagne-carpet-crisis-team-ready-oscars-celebration-sunday-2023-03-12/) LOS ANGELES, March 13 (Reuters) - The Academy Awards telecast on Sunday attracted roughly 18.7 million U.S. The Oscars also ranked as the No. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

The season finale of HBO's The Last of Us and ABC's telecast of the 95th annual Academy Awards went head-to-head Sunday night—and both networks had reason ...

Assuming the cumulative numbers for the show’s last three episodes hold up (and there’s no reason to suspect they won’t), TLOU should end its first season with a bigger reported audience than last year’s House of the Dragon. But it’s worth noting that less than 25 percent of HBO’s same-day estimate— about 1.5 million-2 million viewers— is based on linear viewing as tallied by Nielsen; the vast majority comes via HBO Max streaming the night episodes drop. the show’s same-day premiere audience (4.7 million.) HBO’s estimate combines actual Nielsen data from the several same-day telecasts of TLOU on HBO’s cable channel along with streaming of the show Sunday night. Meanwhile, HBO said TLOU scored its best same-day numbers ever this week and that the show’s cumulative audience is now poised to surpass that of [House of the Dragon](https://www.vulture.com/article/house-of-the-dragon-deleted-scenes.html). On the awards show front, the 2023 Oscarcast averaged 18.7 million same-day linear viewers last night, marking the second consecutive year of growth for the oft-criticized kudos. Ratings were up 12% from the 2022 slap-tastrophe (which notched 16.7 million same-day viewers) and, more impressively, nearly doubled the show’s pandemic-low performance in 2021, when barely 10 million people opted to tune in for the socially distant affair.

As the biggest night in show-business played out, a handful of New Zealand creatives sat inside the Dolby theatre and waited.

"The heart is always racing as that moment approaches. Lisa said: "That in itself is an incredible blessing, My brother now lives in the US so to be able to have a Family reunion at the "At one point I found myself walking next to Winnie Harlow on our way to the Governors ball and she gave me a really sweet smile, so I was stoked with that." Lisa told 1News she couldn't have been more proud of her dad and says the highlight had to be being there to share the moment. With his daughter Lisa, son Stephen and wife Joanne by his side, the trio caught a series of awe-inspiring moments in the run-up to his category. Hedges has been up for an Academy Award five times, winning twice for his contributions to King Kong and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

Viewership for the 95th Academy Awards jumped 12% from last year's event, a small sign of momentum for the award show industry, which lost significant ...

[The Oscars fight for relevance in the streaming era](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/12/oscards-best-picture-top-gun-wakanda-slap) [hired](https://time.com/6257126/oscars-ceo-bill-kramer-slap-interview/)a crisis management team ahead of the big event, just in case another incident akin to last year's now-infamous [Will Smith slap](https://www.axios.com/2022/03/28/oscars-will-smith-slap-chris-rock-social-media), occurred. Viewership for the 95th Academy Awards jumped 12% from last year's event, a small sign of momentum for the award show industry, which lost significant viewership during the pandemic.

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's anarchic ballet of everything bagels, googly-eyed rocks, and one messy tax audit emerged as an improbable Academy Awards ...

Her win, in one of the most competitive categories this year, denied a victory for comic-book fans. Angela Bassett would have been the first performer to win an Oscar for a Marvel movie. Quan, beloved for his roles as Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Data in Goonies, had all but given up acting before being cast in Everything Everywhere All at Once. She’s the first best actress to win for a non-white actress in 20 years. In winning best director, the Daniels — both 35 years old — won for just their second and decidedly un-Oscar bait feature. The audience — including his Temple of Doom director, Steven Spielberg — gave Quan a standing ovation as he fought back tears.

Not to be reductive about it but, on the surface, this is a genre movie, a weird and quirky sci-fi film about multiverses, featuring hot dog fingers, ...

Everything Everywhere All At Once is a different proposition to Parasite, which was, of course, a groundbreaking victory in that a non-English language movie from Asia could so decisively triumph. It was made by Americans (writer-directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan), financed by an American studio (A24) with American producers (Jonathan Wang among them) and starring, with the exception of Michelle Yeoh, American actors including Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Harry Shum Jr and James Hong. Ke Huy Quan is only the second man of Asian heritage to win in Best Supporting Actor. In the time between Oberon and Yeoh, no other woman of Asian descent was ever nominated in Best Actress. It matters because this is a highly visible international event which gets a lot of attention and which says to kids everywhere, no matter their heritage, that there is space for them in places that haven’t always been welcoming. When she was nominated, she was described as a category-first in the Oscars’ 95-year history for a woman identifying as Asian.

The futuristic film from the studio A24 won seven awards, including for best picture, directing and in three of the four acting categories.

The Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”) and the British-born Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) were honored. “Top Gun: Maverick” collected $1.5 billion, and “Avatar: The Way of Water” took in $2.3 billion. [any women](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/movies/female-directors-oscars.html) in the best director category. In the days leading up to the Oscars, another in a series of rainstorms soaked Los Angeles, so much so that the academy sent an alert to the news media on Wednesday warning that it may “need to clear the carpet at a moment’s notice.” In the end, the weather cooperated, and it was a sunny 63 degrees. Jordan, the “Creed” star, and Pedro Pascal, who plays the title role in “The Mandalorian,” were prepared to intervene. This year, Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”) was left out even though her film was nominated for best picture. Carter also won for “Black Panther” in 2019.) “Never give up.” She was the first Asian woman to receive the award. So did the little-seen art films “Triangle of Sadness,” “Women Talking” and “Tár.” Voters also made room for a musical (“Elvis”) and a memory piece (“The Fabelmans”). [95th Academy Awards](https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/awards-season), they may mark it as the start of a new New Hollywood. Curtis was also in tears by the time she reached the fiery conclusion of her acceptance speech. They are both 35.) The film, which received a field-leading 11 nominations, also won Oscars for film editing, best actress and best supporting actor and actress, with Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis honored for their performances.