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Oscars 2024: Academy Awards draw post-pandemic ratings high of 19.5 million viewers despite Jimmy Kimmel's performance as host being panned
Sunday's Oscars, stemming from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, drew four percent more viewers than last year.
The 96th Academy Awards was a commercial success with a four-year ratings high of 19.5 million viewers, despite host Jimmy Kimmel 's performance coming under fire after a number of poorly-received jokes and bits An earlier start time Sunday, as the televised broadcast commenced at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, was cited by THR as a potential factor in the higher ratings, in addition to the focus on two high-profile projects, Oppenheimer and Barbie. In another sequence that received mixed reviews, Kimmel had WWE star-action film staple John Cena, 46, emerge on the stage naked in a nostalgic nod to the David Niven streaker incident of 1974.
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