That’s a shame.
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.”
That’s a shame.
Hard to believe 18 million people actually watched it.
But they feel good about themselves, right? That is all that matters to them.
This was a year of some pretty crappy movies. The quality of content has gone down a lot.
I wouldn’t care what bad movie gets an award.
The Oscars are in a death-spiral. No one cares about the movies Hollywood produces, no one cares about the awards they get.
No doubt, and never heard of any of these movies or the ‘stars’
Though considering who all we’ve been force fed for years and years, this might be good thing.
So studding and brave the way they always give Oscars to the least popular movies.
Interesting. 1998 was the last year I ever watched the Oscars.
Must be a typo since going from 3.92 to 3.92 isn't exactly up 3%. Like Barbie said math is hard.
The 2025 live thread clocked in at 200+ replies, up from 104 last year and 67 in 2022.
Based on search, 2025 had the highest number of posts on FR record.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Academy%20awards%20live
We are counter-cyclical!
As I wrote last night, it was a very pleasant surprise.
The political commentary was VERY muted for the Oscars.
The speeches were, in general, tasteful. Some rambling -like the ones who just landed 3 hours before the broadcast. The Palestinian movie’s acceptance speeches were pure propaganda. Overall, I give the 2025 Oscars a B-.
And the REAL shocker? The commercials were better than the ones for the Super Bowl.
A special award to Conan.
The film industry is so afraid that it even ran an ad for Cinemastreamers during the Oscars. This company streams movies in buildings that seat hundreds of people. The screen is completely automated and requires no interactive controls. You can even buy snacks like popcorn and soft drinks while streaming.
It’s a novel idea, but the problem is that it costs a family close to $100 to go to a Cinemastreamer building. Also, you can only view one stream at a time and can’t flip selections until you find something worth watching. I don’t think it will survive as a product.
Gays and hen pecked husbands were the most significant viewers.
Seriously.....
I have to admit, I love going to Wikipedia to find out how a terrible movie ends while I’m watching it.
If I’m streaming the movie, I cut my losses and move on to the next form of mindless entertainment.
Bunch of no talent racists having a fashion show.
Some of the most evil people on the planet who have to preach to you.
I haven’t watched the Oscars since 2004. That’s the year when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won everything it was nominated for including best picture.
Modern movies are boring.
I went to the movies 2 Sundays ago, to see Becoming Led Zeppelin, at an IMAX format theater.
I went with 2 younger siblings so the outing was rewarding, in and of itself, for the family aspect alone.
Having said that, the movie was entertaining and worth the effort.
The commercials, pre-movie / pre-previews, while expected, were in number so large as to be disdaining.
Now, for the previews which were expected, and likely to be repulsive, seeing how Hollywood is a sewer today, I was not disappointed.
After watching all of them, numbering about a dozen, there was not a single one of them that appealed to me.
Most, and no surprise here, bore the DEI messaging.
Some were intolerably nauseating by the prolific use of special effects, or CGI.
Others carried the DEI message in such prominence, to the degree that one had to question what was the plot of the film.
And... for that reason, I’m OUT!
Good riddance Hollywood.
Your doo doo is weak.
Do not want.
Off the mark.
Out of touch.
Hit the road.
Don’t come back.
You suck ... fill in the blank!
Complete failure to know your audience.
DIE DEI DIE!
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