2020 Academy Awards TV seeing figures sink to an all-time low

The broadcast of the 2020 Academy Awards arrived at its smallest-ever US crowd of 23.6 million watchers

Nielsen ratings revealed that the crowd for the Sunday broadcast was down 20% from a year backAlready, the lowest number of watchers of the Oscars was 26.5 million in 2018

The Academy Awards honored Parasite as the best pictureWhile it made history as the first non-English-language film to win the top award, it was not a crowd of people grabber for the broadcastThe Oscars were held sooner in the year than expected,that may have kept the show from building buzz

For the second consecutive year, the show had no hostIt opened for the current year with an animating production number from Janelle Monáea fresh comic set featuring Steve MartinChris Rock

In 2019, that innovation appeared to trigger a spike in review figures, however, pundits thought the absence of host was a handicap this yearDominic Patten of Deadline said the show “bellowed out for a ringmaster to harness what soon became a lackluster circus”.

For a great part of the 2000s, the Oscars floated somewhere in the range of 3545 million watchers,it was often the US’s second most-watched TV program of the year after the Super Bowl(The current year’s broadcast of the Super Bowl was the lowest in 10 years.) As recently as 2015, the Oscars had 37.3 million watchersBe that as it may, live TV seeing when all is said in done has dropped fundamentally over the past few years with the explosion in streaming services.

Viewership for the Golden Globes (18.3 million)Grammys (18.7 million) was likewise down from 2019, yet the drop was not as steep.