WHAT A SHAME: Ratings for the Oscars Were Down Nine Percent From Last Year – Lowest Since 2022
If you didn’t watch the Academy Awards this year, you’re not alone. In fact, most people didn’t watch the show.
This year, host Conan O’Brien and others couldn’t resist taking cheap shots at President Trump, First Lady Melania, Republicans in general, Turning Point USA, our ally Israel and more. These woke celebrities just can’t help themselves.
Their entire industry is going down the drain and they refuse to do any course correction whatsoever. What are they going to do when no one is watching at all anymore?
Hollywood has worked extremely hard to turn people away with bad movies and incessant political activism and unsurprisingly it has worked https://t.co/T6iSubzrcG
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) March 17, 2026
Variety reports:
Oscars Ratings Hit 17.9 Million Viewers, Down 9% From Last Year and Lowest Since 2022
The 98th annual Academy Awards drew 17.86 million viewers on ABC and Hulu, which makes it the least-watched Oscars telecast since 2022. The number is down 9% from last year’s 19.7 million viewers, which had been a five-year high for the telecast.
The telecast averaged a 3.92 rating among adults 18-49, down from last year’s 4.54 but up from 2024’s 3.82 rating. Despite this year’s dip, the 98th Academy Awards now rates as the No. 1 primetime entertainment telecast of the 2025-2026 season, according to Disney.
The declines for Sunday night’s broadcast, which was hosted by Conan O’Brien, matches similar dips seen by other major awards shows this winter, with the Golden Globes down 6% (8.66 million viewers) in January and the Grammys down 6% (14.4 million viewers) in February.
All of the ratings are via Nielsen’s big data plus panel ratings. The Oscars easily ranked as the No. 1 program on Sunday in viewers and across all key demos.
ABC also reported that social impressions were up +42.4% this year (184,314,3702) and Academy social platforms were up to 21.6 million this year vs. 19.7 million last year, including more than 129 million video views throughout the night.
Notice how the Variety article keeps trying to suggest that there’s some good news in there? There isn’t. In a country of 350 million people, a very small percentage tuned in to watch, and most of them were probably journalists and people who work in the entertainment industry.
The truth is that most Americans are completely sick of these people. They get paid millions of dollars to play pretend and get treated like royalty, then turn around and act like morally superior scolds while dumping on more than half of the country.
Here’s hoping that they are enjoying it while it lasts. If things keep going the way they are, many of these people will be unemployed in a few short years.
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