Audience for 95th Oscars 回復するs わずかに to 18.7 million
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Whether it was the ぐずぐず残る 演劇 of The 非難する or the prominence of blockbusters in the best picture race, a bigger audience was 誘惑するd 支援する to the Oscars this year.
The 95th 学院 Awards, which 空気／公表するd Sunday night on ABC, was 見解（をとる）d by an 概算の 18.7 million, によれば 予選 急速な／放蕩な 国家の Live+Same Day numbers 解放（する）d Monday by ABC. That's up 12% from last year's show, but still low compared to most years.
The evening´s main counterprogramming, the season finale of "The Last of Us" pulled in 8.2 million テレビ視聴者s across HBO and HBO Max. The show began at 9 p.m. EDT, an hour after the Oscars started.
A たびたび（訪れる） 批評 of the Oscars is that the show celebrates films that don´t have wide 控訴，上告. This year was markedly different, however, with two billion-dollar blockbuster sequels in the mix: "最高の，を越す: Gun 無所属の政治家" and "Avatar: The Way of Water" were both 指名するd for best picture. Angela Bassett was 指名するd for a Marvel movie, a first. Even the winning film, A24´s "Everything Everywhere All At Once," made over $100 million at the 全世界の box office and played in theaters for months.
For many years, the Oscars were often the second most-watched television program of the year behind the 最高の Bowl. Until 2018, the Oscar テレビ放送 had never slipped below 30 million テレビ視聴者s, によれば Nielsen 記録，記録的な／記録するs. The high-water 示す was the 55 million people who watched "Titanic" clean up in 1998.
From the 43.7 million who watched in 2014, viewership 拒絶する／低下するd 刻々と to 26.5 million in 2018, then went 支援する up to 29.6 million in 2019, and 23.6 million in 2020. The 底（に届く） fell out with the pandemic-減らすd show in 2021, seen by 9.85 million. It 回復するd last year to 16.6 million, which was the second lowest-率d show ever.
Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Jimmy Kimmel, who 統括するd over the 儀式 in 2017 and 2018, returned to host the show, パラシュート（で降下する）ing on to the Dolby Theatre 行う／開催する／段階. The show also featured 業績／成果s from pop 星／主役にするs like Rihanna and Lady Gaga.
Broadcast television viewership has gone 負かす／撃墜する across the board in the streaming 時代, and awards shows have illustrated that. The show 誇るd 27.4 million total social interactions across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and was the No. 1 世界的な 傾向ing topic on Twitter for its duration.
By Monday afternoon, Ke Huy Quan´s 受託 speech had over 1.3 million 見解（をとる）s on YouTube, and Brendan Fraser´s was up to 2.6 million.
The ABC broadcast also had 1.8 million 見解（をとる）s of the American 調印する Language live stream.
"What we 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do was go out and 遂行する／発効させる a show that people would really like and a show people would talk about," Oscars 生産者 Glenn Weiss told The Hollywood Reporter in the hours after the show. "We think we did 遂行する that. I sure hope that (Monday) 配達するs good news in the ratings 前線, but either way, I think it was a successful evening."
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Host Jimmy Kimmel appears onscreen at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
