Posted on 03/03/2025 7:45:42 PM PST by DoodleBob
The 2025 Oscars brought in an impressive audience, though not as big as last year.
The 97th annual Academy Awards scored 18.07 million viewers across ABC and Hulu, according to Nielsen figures. The show began airing on ABC at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, and was live-streamed on Hulu, though not Disney+ with Hulu.
That’s down 7% from the 19.5 million total viewers brought in by the 2024 Oscars, and builds on the year-over-year viewership growth seen by the show. In 2023, the show scored 18.8 million viewers, while the 2022 show brought in 16.7 million viewers.
The Conan O’Brien-hosted show also delivered a 3.92 rating in the key broadcast demo among adults 18-49 — up 3% from last year’s rating of 3.92. The Oscars brought in the show’s highest rating in two years in the 18-49 demo, as well as its highest rating in five years among adults 18-34 as it scored a 3.17 rating in the 18-34 demo.
Among both total viewers and in the 18-49 demo, the Oscars stands as the No. 1 primetime entertainment telecast for the 2024-2025 season.
On social media, the Oscars logged 104.2 million total social interactions, ranking as the No. 1 most social TV program this season, exceeding social performance for the Grammys, which logged 102.2 million interactions, and the Super Bowl, which logged 62.4 million interactions. Notably, the Academy’s ASL livestream has scored 1.4 million viewers.
For reference, this year’s Grammys scored 15.4 million viewers — down over 8% from the 2024 show — while the 2025 Golden Globes brought in 10.1 million viewers.
The 2025 Oscars marks the second year that the ceremony began at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, rather than its previous 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT start time, which Oscars showrunner and EP Raj Kapoor told TheWrap last year would be be “beneficial” given audience’s shifting lifestyles. The show was scheduled to wrap up by 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT, though, as usual, it ran long.
After “Anora” gained some momentum throughout awards season, the Mikey Madison-led movie was the winningest film of the night, with Sean Baker winning four Oscars — matching a record held by Walt Disney. In a surprise turn of events, Madison won the Academy Award for best actress over frontrunner Demi Moore, before “Anora” took home the prestigious best picture award. The final award of the night was presented by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, serving as an on-stage “When Harry Met Sally” reunion.
As expected, Adrien Brody took home the Oscar for best actor for his performance in “The Brutalist,” while Kieran Culkin took home the supporting actor award for “A Real Pain” and Zoe Saldaña took home the Academy Award for best supporting actress for “Emilia Pérez.”
I didn’t watch a single second of the Oscars. This behavior, is my normal routine, covering decades.
Hollywood is a sewer and the majority of its academy members are my mortal enemies.
It wasn’t always this way...
There was a period in the mid-70s...maybe for 2 years...nothing remarkable. I think for 2024/2025...we’ve hit the same trend.
They may have been flipping through the channels and they counted that 15 second glimpse as watching. I don’t know. The only awards that were entertaining was when Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes. That was epic.
I found it interesting that CBS ran its regular lineup with no repeats. In the past the other netwoks surrender the night by running repeats.
I think they only got 18 million because a lot of people thought the Epstein list might be released during the show.
At least 7 past films in 10 years had gay/transgender characters
#35 lists them.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4301736/posts?page=35#35
The Oscars will just have to tell the studios to make more gay transgender prostitute films. They think this will draw in the audience....
And no one cares about the people getting the awards. They are finally irrelevant.
A bunch of America haters giving awards to movies no one has ever heard of. It’s just politics and theater within their own communist bubble.
The chart is interesting, it shows how American interest in Hollywood trash is declining. A chart showing interest in MSM fake news would likely parallel this chart.
They make movies for themselves so they can admire themselves. They only care about the public because the public has money to fund their narcissism.
Hollywood makes movies that put their values on display. Our values don’t matter.
The Oscars are in a death-spiral. No one cares about the movies Hollywood produces, no one cares about the awards they get.
No one cares about the pretenders who get these participation awards, either.
I pretty much agree with you. It was the first Oscars awards show I watched in years, and it was a colossal waste of time.
They will never be any good until they root out out the pedophilia and degenerate culture.
You can go back to the 80’s and 90’s and still find some pretty darn good movies.
Movies with a story to tell, not political, not focused on wokey type crap.
Maybe someday they will learn that they have all showed their naked butts and boobs all over the place for years now. We have all seen naked people. They don’t need to come to these shows wearing, or not wearing, some of the most goofy looking clothes imaginable.
There are no stars anymore, just boring big mouth political activists who will be replaced most likely by AI.
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