Lots of people tune out because these shows end up dencending into insult fests where they unecessarily disparage half the nation.
Cut the bullshit and people may decide to tune in...in a few decades.
If people aren't interested in watching the Awards, they'll stop televising it. I remember when a Native American came out and accepted the award for Marlon Brando; it's been pretty much politicized at least since then. Sometimes I watch for the gowns. I don't go to the movies anymore, so it's been a long time since I bothered watching them.
I've never understood why anybody would watch a wankfest like that in any year.

I mean unless one was part of that group. I might watch a meeting of audio engineers or something but I wouldn't expect the general public to.
Apparently Buttsoiler the OP never came back to try to explain what TV ratings have to do with "leftism". Because he can't.
TV ratings are a marketing tool. They tell the buyers and sellers of advertising how much a particular time slot is worth by translating how many eyeballs they'll reach. That's it. That's the entirety of what they do. They have zero to do with "politics", zero to do with how anybody "feels about" the programming, zero to do with anything except "what is this time worth in dollars". They measure
attention, which is in no way related to "assent". I suspect Buttsoiler had something like this in mind (when I say "in mind" I mean metaphorically) for his bizarre illogical bridge to nowhere.
Zombies like him tried to do the same thing with NFL ratings, trying desperately to tie national anthem postures to TV ratings to prop up their jingoist positions, oblivious to the fact that not only are ALL sports TV ratings in decline (and TV ratings in general) due to internet/streaming alternatives, but that national anthem was never even part of the TV broadcast anyway.
It's like logical thought is regarded as some kind of disease to these cretins.
The reason for this is that Buttsoiler and his ilk of shallow minds are the bleating sheep of
Eliminationism, the doctrine that says one's prescribed political adverse discussants are not alternative views to be considered, debated or negotiated with, but rather large germs that must be eliminated, exterminated, completely wiped out so they can have their monolithic one-party State of Absolutism. These are the fascists of the 21st century and this is how they talk.