Posts Tagged ‘Best Picture’

And the Oscar might have gone to …

So the best-picture race leave be twice as crowded at next year’s Academy Awards, with the ceremony’s organizers announcing Wednesday that they’re expanding the biz of nominees from five to 10.

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Preliminary ratings show Oscar numbers up

A preliminary measurement of the nation’s biggest markets shows ratings for this year’s Academy Awards went up 6 percent over last year, yet the telecast is still likely to be among the three least-watched Oscars ever.

Nielsen Media Research says its estimate of the Oscar audience’s size will come later Monday. Last year’s audience of 32 million was the smallest ever measured for an Oscar telecast. Read the rest of this entry »