Anora won five Academy Awards, including best picture. Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin won best supporting actress and actor. Flow and No Other Land won best animated feature film and best documentary.
The show was broadcast on ABC, as it has been for decades, but also streamed live on Hulu, where there were glitches.
UPDATED: Nielsen’s finalized reporting of Sunday’s Oscars telecast has brought the total from 18.1 to 19.7 million viewers. Rather than a 7% decrease from last year’s show, this indicates a 1% increase.
Roughly halfway through the broadcast ( which we live-blogged with reckless abandon ), during a break between Oscars being handed out, O’Brien delivered a perfectly timed quip referencing Kendrick Lamar’s now-infamous Super Bowl LIX halftime show performance.
There’s a whole world of action happening in between commercial breaks, and at the lobby bar in the Dolby Theatre.
Smaller movies didn’t mean smaller viewer numbers for the Oscars. An estimated 19.7 million viewers watched Sunday night’s 97th Academy Awards ceremony, the biggest audience in five years.
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