Whats more, the years No.
It came in second only to 2021s virtual ceremony, which could only muster about 10.4M viewers.
But even before the pandemic, the Oscars were on a steady decline when it came to viewers.
2020s 23.6M was nothing to scoff at when just a few years earlier the viewership had been nearly double.
6 at the yearly box office grossing $735M.
Both lost toThe Hurt Locker, which, in comparison, grossed $49.2M worldwide.
That years ceremony was watched by 41.7M people.
4 at the global box office, was also nominated.
That show took home 37.6M viewers.
Since 2014, viewership has begun to take a downturn.
In 2018, the Oscars hit a then-historic low of just 26.5M viewers.
Not a single Best Picture nominee was among the top 15 highest-grossing films of the year.
37 on the worldwide box office list).
The following year, in 2019, Oscars viewership was back up to nearly 30M.
Is it any surprise thatBlack Panther, which was a historic film that came in at No.
2 at the worldwide box office grossing $1.3B,was also nominated for Best Picture?
Since then, the Best Picture contenders have included some popular films, most notablyJokerin 2020 andDunelast year.
But none that have captured worldwide audiences like anAvataror aBlack Panther.
