The 97th Academy Awards saw drew 18.07M viewers across ABC and Hulu on Sunday night, per Disney.
Likely not the number that the Mouse House was hoping for, considering it’s a bit of a decline over the past two years. It was about a 7% decrease from last year’s four-year audience high of 19.5M viewers and was just slightly lower than the year prior, when 18.8M tuned in for the 95th annual Academy Awards in 2023.
Before this year, viewership had been on a steady incline, rising heftily from the hostless 2021 Oscars, which drew an audience of 10.4 million. In 2022, the year of the Slap Seen Around the World when subsequent Best Actor winner Will Smith took a whack at presenter Chris Rock, viewership leapt up to 16.6M.
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