I think the last time I tuned into the Academy Awards was 1974. No interest in watching leftist hacks congratulate themselves.
I stopped watching the Oscars back in the early Nineties when “Shakespeare In Love” won instead of “Saving Private Ryan”.
The last time I watched and actually enjoyed the Oscars was the night that ‘The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King’ did the “clean sweep” and won just about every dang Oscar it was nominated for. I was down in Texas, visiting my in-laws. My late mother-in-law hated Hollywood in general and wasn’t pleased by my watching it. Even so, she let me take over their TV for just that one night.
The last Oscar show I watched was when Neil Patrick Harris hosted it. The first part was pretty good...then he came out on stage in nothing but his underwear. I turned it off after that and haven’t watched it since.