“Oscar 2022” became the second most watched Oscar in history
The 42nd Academy Awards, despite a 56 percent increase in the number of viewers compared to the previous period, still ranked second on the list of least watched events in the history of the Oscars.
Theater News Base: Preliminary statistics from Nielsen show that at least 15.3 million people watched the live broadcast of the 2022 Oscars on Monday morning, which is a significant increase compared to the 9,850,000 viewers of the previous period. Despite this, the 94th Oscar can be considered the second least visible event in the history of this film award.
Before the Corona epidemic, the number of television viewers of the Oscars had never been less than 20 million; The 2020 Oscars, which aired in the United States before quarantine and national holidays, had 23,600,000 viewers, and the 2019 Oscars drew 29,600,000 viewers.
The significance of these figures is that this year the Oscars had returned to normal by holding a face-to-face ceremony with three performers.
Sally Will Smith as Chris Rock, who overshadowed this year’s Oscars, had little effect on viewership because it happened late in the ceremony.
The 94th Academy Awards were held in the morning of Monday (April 8) Iranian time.