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The Academy Award Ratings Sink from 2014

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Oscar ratings and viewership is down 14% from last year.

According to reports, fewer people watched The Academy Awards this year in comparison to last year.

The ratings are coming in almost as fast as the awards were handed out during last night’s Oscarsand preliminary fast nationals have the Neil Patrick Harris hosted show getting a 10.3/27 among adults 18-49. That’s a drop of 14% from the 12.1/29 that the Ellen DeGeneres fronted Oscars pulled in last year for ABC on March 2. Viewershipwise, the 87th Academy Awards were watched by 34.6 million between 8:30 and 11 PM in the early results. That’s down almost 14% from the 40.2 million who watched the show over the same time period last year.

Last year the 86th Annual Academy Awards had 43.7 million viewers. The decrease in ratings could be blamed on the Oscar nominated movies. Only the American Sniper and The Imitation Game drew a ton of viewers in the box-office, the rest of the motion pictures were minor hits and did not have wide releases.

Part of this year’s decline could have to do with the fact that a lot of the big awards were handed out after 11 PM ET and that of the eight films that were nominated for Best Picture, only the Clint Eastwood directed American Sniper and the Weinstein Company distributed The Imitation Gamewere big draws at the domestic box office.

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