The Oscars averaged an approximate 24.6 rating/39 share in the household overnights from 8:30 p.m.-12:12 a.m. ET, peaking in the 9:30 p.m. half-hour at a 25.6/37. Comparably, this was 12 percent below the 27.9/41 in the overnights for the year-ago Oscars telecast (on Sunday 3/02/14)
It was a really boring show overall even for movie fans. They have to STOP airing all those boring categories that nobody cares about and just stick to the main ones.
An spot on comment I read on Deadline regarding the Oscars:
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It’s hard to get excited about something when you have members being quoted as saying that they as voters don’t care about expanding their tent. The Academy is Hollywood’s Republican Party. They blame people of color, essentially for not being talented enough to qualify for a nomination (re-read some of the quotes from people defending this years lack of diversity and the implication is “it’s an award of merit” therefore only white guys deserved it. Well, why is it that only white guys deserve it? I’m sure Patricia Arquette has some well researched thoughts on that.)
The Academy is like my conservative grandfather who is set in his ways and doesn’t like anything new or anything questioning his opinion. And people , especially young people, notice. If the Academy wants to be relevant again, it needs to stop acting as if there is no problem and care about the viewing public a little bit more, and not pander by trotting out a token people of color who have never even been nominated (Kerry Washington, Kevin Hart, Jennifer Lopez) otherwise, like the Republican party, it’ll just be the party of old white men. Oh, wait, it already is! (94% white, 77% male, median age 62 according to the LA Times.)
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