Oscars viewership down by 7% in 2025
After four years of steady growth, the 2025 Oscars viewership dropped by 7% but remained the most-viewed primetime entertainment show this season.
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Film » Film News
Tue 4 March 2025 10:00, UK
While the Oscars are undeniably the biggest night in the film world for actors, directors and industry leaders, outsider attention dwindled as viewership of the ceremony dropped. In comparison to the 2024 awards, the ratings for the 2025 show were down by 7%.
The ratings for the Oscars have been up and down over the last few years. Back in 2021, numbers significantly dropped to an all-time low of only 10.4million viewers. However, after the pandemic and as the movie-making world began recovering, so did interest in the awards show.
For the three years after that, there was steady and consecutive growth. In 2022, 16.6m viewers tuned in. In 2023, that went up to 18.8m and then hit a new high of 19.5m in 2024.
However, the statistics for the 2025 ceremony, which took place on March 2nd, showed the first drop in four years. 18.1million people watched the show, seeing a 7% decrease in viewership from the previous year.
Obviously, 18.1m people is still an incredible audience. It made the show the most-watched primetime entertainment broadcast of the 2024 to 2025 season so far in the US.
That audience, tuning in on TV and live streams, saw another star-studded and historic night for film. At the 97th Academy Awards, Sean Baker’s Anora swept the prizes as a true victory for independent cinema, Adrien Brody delivered the longest acceptance speech in the awards’ history at five minutes and 40 seconds, and I’m Still Here became the first Brazilian film to win ‘Best International Feature’.
With cameos from Mick Jagger and Margaret Qualley, as well as performances from Raye and nominees Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo – it certainly was an entertaining night for all 18.1million viewers watching at home.
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