Oscars Hit 18.1 Million Viewers, Down 7% From Last Year
variety.comSelome Hailu Just under 18.1 million people tuned into ABC‘s telecast of the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, marking a 7% decrease from the year before.
That total, which comes from a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of linear viewers on ABC plus Disney’s own data regarding livestreams on Hulu, indicates the ceremony’s first viewership drop in four years.
In 2021, the first ceremony after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an all-time low of 10.4 million viewers, but Hollywood’s biggest night saw consecutive growth for three years after that, hitting 16.6 million viewers in 2022, 18.8 million in 2023 and 19.5 million in 2024.
Still, 18.1 million was enough to make the Oscars the most-watched and primetime entertainment (meaning non-sports and non-news) telecast of the 2024-2025 TV season thus far.
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