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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2023
Oscars 2021 ratings plummet to all-time low

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Reuters
27 April, 2021, 11:00 am
Last modified: 27 April, 2021, 11:07 am

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Oscars 2021 ratings plummet to all-time low

Ratings for the Golden Globes in February fell 60% from a year earlier.

Reuters
27 April, 2021, 11:00 am
Last modified: 27 April, 2021, 11:07 am
Oscars 2021. Photo: Collected
Oscars 2021. Photo: Collected

US television ratings for Sunday's reinvented Oscars ceremony plummeted to a new low, according to preliminary Nielsen data for a show that USA Today called "a train wreck" and the New York Times described as "a dead room."

The audience on Walt Disney Co's ABC broadcast network averaged 9.85 million, 58% below last year's final tally of 23.6 million viewers for the film industry's highest honors. Final numbers that include people who watched at bars and restaurants are expected to be released on Tuesday.

The slide reflects a trend among live awards shows during the coronavirus pandemic. TV audiences for September's Emmys and the Grammy Awards in March also drew their lowest audiences ever. Ratings for the Golden Globes in February fell 60% from a year earlier.

Hoping to draw viewers while adhering to pandemic safety measures, this year's producers tried a few new things. The awards were broadcast for the first time at a historic train station in downtown Los Angeles in a more intimate setting with only nominees and their guests.

With movie theaters closed for much of the past year, studios held back crowd-pleasing blockbusters. The films competing for Oscars were smaller movies watched mostly at home on streaming services. Even before the pandemic, TV audiences were dropping as viewers flocked to streaming and social media postings.

The show featured a historic best director win for Chloe Zhao, who became the second woman and first woman of color to take home that prize. Her film, "Nomadland," won best picture L1N2MI0I8.

Producers encouraged longer acceptance speeches and stripped the usual comedy and musical performances. One light moment came late in the three-hour telecast when nominee Glenn Close briefly danced to the 1988 funk hit "Da Butt."

Instead of saving best picture for last, producers broke with custom and ended with best actor. The honor went to Anthony Hopkins, who was not in attendance, making for an abrupt ending.

Reactions from film and TV critics were harsh.

"The Oscars were a train wreck at the train station, an excruciatingly long, boring telecast that lacked the verve of so many movies we love," USA Today reviewer Kelly Lawler wrote.

"The trade-off — whether because of the smaller crowd, the social distancing, or the sound quality in the cavernous space — was what felt like a dead room, both acoustically and emotionally," the New York Times TV critic Mike Hale wrote.

Many noted that the show featured few clips from the nominated films.

"So there was a missed chance to tantalize viewers with actual footage of actors acting, of scores soaring, of 'Tenet''s visual effects inverting," Entertainment Weekly reviewer Darren Franich wrote.

Some praised the producers for shaking up traditions for a show that has been criticized as stale. Time magazine said the event was "more entertaining than the average pre-COVID Oscars."

ABC owns broadcast rights for the Oscars until 2028.

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