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iHeart Podcast Awards 2024
The 96th annual Academy Awards ceremony drew 19.5 million viewers on ABC on Sunday night.
According to fast national ratings adjusted by time zone, Sunday’s broadcast drew 19.5 million viewers and a 3.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and aired from 7:00 to 10: 29 pm Eastern time. By comparison, the 2023 broadcast attracted 18.8 million viewers and a 4.0 rating in the final tallies. That means this year’s show was up just 4% in total viewers, but down 5% in the key demo. It’s also worth noting that this year’s show started an hour earlier than in previous years.
Still, the 2024 telecast was the most-watched Oscar telecast since 2020 and marked the third consecutive year of viewership growth. The 2021 broadcast, which was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, drew an all-time low of 10.4 million viewers. It recovered in 2022 with 16.6 million, followed by 18.8 million last year.
Read the full list of Oscar winners here.
At the Oscars ceremony, “Oppenheimer” reigned supreme, with the hit biopic taking home seven awards, including best picture, best director for Christopher Nolan and best actor for Cillian Murphy. Robert Downey Jr. also won best supporting actor for his work in the film.
Elsewhere on the night, Emma Stone won the second Oscar of her career for “Poor Things,” while Da’Vine Joy Randolph won best supporting actress for “The Holdovers.”
Both Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” failed to win any awards, and “Barbie” was excluded from most of the categories in which it was nominated, except for best original song (“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell).
Speaking of “Barbie,” Ryan Gosling brought the house down with his performance of “I’m Just Ken.” Gosling, nominated for best supporting actor for playing Ken in the hit film, was accompanied on stage by an army of dancers that included his colleagues Kens Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Scott Evans, as well as Mark Ronson. and guitar legend Slash.
Immediately following the Oscars, a special episode of “Abbott Elementary” notched new series highs in both Live+Same Day total viewers and the demo, with 6.9 million and a 1.42 rating respectively.