“Barbenheimer” brought a bump not a boom to Oscars scores
ByANDREW DALTON AP homeentertainment author
LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Barbenheimer” brought a bump not a boom to Oscars rankings.
An approximated 19.5 million individuals seen Sunday night’s 96th Academy Awards event on ABC. That’s the mostsignificant number drawn by the telecast in 4 years.
But that upward pattern comes from an all-time low throughout the pandemic, and is up simply 4% from last year’s approximated audience of 18.7 million, according to numbers launched Monday by ABC.
The Academy explored with beginning this year’s program an hour earlier, and for the veryfirst time in years had numerous elections for big hit motionpictures that audiences had really seen — “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”
The viewership peaked in the last half hour, when the audience saw Ryan Gosling carryout “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie,” saw Cillian Murphy win finest star and Christopher Nolan win finest director for ”Oppenheimer,” and Al Pacino provide the movie the finest photo Oscar in an odd discussion.
A significant star, Emma Stone, a