Oscars 2024 Hit 4-Year Viewership High With 19.5 Million

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The audience for the 96th Academy Awards grows for the third year in a row, with 1 million more viewers than in 2023

"Oppenheimer" wins Best Picture at the 96th Annual Academy Awards
"Oppenheimer" wins Best Picture at the 96th Annual Academy Awards (Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Hollywood’s biggest night scored 19.5 million total viewers Sunday night on ABC, according to Nielsen fast national live and same day data.

The telecast of the 96th Academy Awards marked a four-year high in total viewers, including a 4% increase compared to the 18.8 million who tuned into the Sunday night telecast in 2023. Last year’s broadcast saw a 13% uptick in total viewership compared to the 16.7 million viewers the awards show nabbed in 2022. This year’s show also nabbed a 3.81

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2 responses to “Oscars 2024 Hit 4-Year Viewership High With 19.5 Million”

  1. Brian Holland Avatar
    Brian Holland

    It was a great show. Perhaps the first year I really thought it didn’t drag…. Despite the haters and the questionable Robert Downey Jr jokes, I thought Jimmy Kimmel was great! 

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  2. Roberta hanley Avatar
    Roberta hanley

    The problem was it was not exposing good enough clips of any of the films or performances – Normally we would see a very seminal relevant film clip that would drive audiences to the films but instead it was very hard to find a good clip from any of the movies – the worst was Il Capiaino which was disgraceful as it showed the lead actor hanging from a meat hook and didn’t show the lead actors face or any of the most amazing dialogue and performance ever seen by a first time actor – no one could tell what that was – it looked liked Silence of the Lambs and destroyed it – the actresses and actors describing the performances was like a trump beauty contest not highlighting their role one bit – cringe 

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