Talk about drama: The suspense around this year’s precarious Academy Awards show won’t peak until roughly 12 hours after PricewaterhouseCoopers hands over the Best Picture envelope.
That’s when Nielsen will render its verdict on the ratings.If those are judged adequate, the film awards business can write off its losses to the pandemic, and hope for a better year ahead.If not, an industry-wide Reckoning almost surely will begin.Granted, the hard part is deciding what’s “adequate” in a season that saw the television audience for rival shows evaporate.If the Oscars are down by a mere 40 percent, to something under 15 million viewers, ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences conceivably might declare victory, and march on.
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