The Oscars Lost Almost 10% Viewership This Year

[toobfreak]

In a horrific under-performance, viewership of The Oscars fell by 9% this year meaning they lost almost 1 in 10 viewers, apparently so turned off by the Hollywood narcissistic trend, yet the question remains: Will Hollywood see this as a call that they need to change direction, or will Hollywood just plug ahead with the usual stubborn indifference for making a product the wider public actually wants?

Amazingly, they still tell themselves they did well only because every other award did far worse, and now plan to leave TV altogether to focus on just the young crowd via a YouTube broadcast only. You know, because 20-somethings don't own TVs anymore and would rather sit for 2 hours watching their cellphone, meantime, there is zero chance I'll be watching anything live on Youtube. Seriously, I doubt being carried over television was the reason 9% of viewers who wanted to see the Oscars somehow missed them.

Oscar Ratings Fall 9% From Last Year With 17.9 Million Viewers

The 2026 Oscars saw viewership tick down 9% from last year.

www.thewrap.com

 

[Blaster]

The Oscars have lost their audience due to political posturing.

 

[toobfreak]

The Oscars have lost their audience due to political posturing.

Apparently they think it is all just ABC's fault and all they need to do is stream on the internet.

 

[Augustine_]

Other than conservative boomers old media has been losing its audience for decades. Why else do you think conservatives feel the most strongly about something like the Oscars?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Who watches that? I mean...

 

[toobfreak]

Other than conservative boomers old media has been losing its audience for decades.

Old media. So television and sitting in a comfortable chair watching a big screen is now "old?"

Why else do you think conservatives feel the most strongly about something like the Oscars?

So, the group of people who feel most strongly about the Oscars are also the same people no longer watching it on TV waiting for it to come to YouTube on a tiny smartphone?

 

[Augustine_]

Old media. So television and sitting in a comfortable chair watching a big screen is now "old?"


So, the group of people who feel most strongly about the Oscars are also the same people no longer watching it on TV waiting for it to come to YouTube on a tiny smartphone?

Search "Oscars" in USMB's search bar. It's all just conservative posters.

 

[my2¢]

I figure the decline in Oscar viewership follows the decline in movie theatre attendance as there are so many alternatives these days. Plus it doesn't help as industry is mostly banking on sequels to haul in the bucks.

 

[Lockback]

Search "Oscars" in USMB's search bar. It's all just conservative posters.

Did we hurt your feelings?

 

[Augustine_]

Did we hurt your feelings?

About what?

 

[Lockback]

About what?

Your precious Hollywood culture?

 

[Augustine_]

Your precious Hollywood culture?

Why would that be precious?

 

[Lockback]

Why would that be precious?

Because they're all Leftists, which we know you love.

 

[Augustine_]

Because they're all Leftists, which we know you love.

Tell me more about my opinion on the Oscars

 

[Lockback]

Tell me more about my opinion on the Oscars

No need to.
We know you love the Left Propaganda Machine.

 

[SaxonJackson]

In a horrific under-performance, viewership of The Oscars fell by 9% this year meaning they lost almost 1 in 10 viewers, apparently so turned off by the Hollywood narcissistic trend, yet the question remains: Will Hollywood see this as a call that they need to change direction, or will Hollywood just plug ahead with the usual stubborn indifference for making a product the wider public actually wants?

Amazingly, they still tell themselves they did well only because every other award did far worse, and now plan to leave TV altogether to focus on just the young crowd via a YouTube broadcast only. You know, because 20-somethings don't own TVs anymore and would rather sit for 2 hours watching their cellphone, meantime, there is zero chance I'll be watching anything live on Youtube. Seriously, I doubt being carried over television was the reason 9% of viewers who wanted to see the Oscars somehow missed them.

Oscar Ratings Fall 9% From Last Year With 17.9 Million Viewers

The 2026 Oscars saw viewership tick down 9% from last year.

www.thewrap.com

It should have lost 100% of its viewership.

 

[Augustine_]

No need to.
We know you love the Left Propaganda Machine.

Not as much as you love talking about the Oscars

 

[MarathonMike]

All entertainment award shows are lame because 95 percent of the entertainers are snooty Democrat boot lickers.

 

[rightwinger]

I figure the decline in Oscar viewership follows the decline in movie theatre attendance as there are so many alternatives these days. Plus it doesn't help as industry is mostly banking on sequels to haul in the bucks.

The Oscars highlight movies nobody has seen with stars few people know.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

There is too much left wing hate in movies