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| Total Viewers (million) | 29.147 | 9.684 | 7.329 | 5.311 | 2.887 | 1.256 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 9.6/23 | 3.6/9 | 1.8/4 | 1.6/4 | 1.2/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 8.7/23 | 2.6/7 | 1.2/3 | 1.1/3 | 1.2/3 | 0.3/1 |
Update: the awards averaged 36.3 million and a 12.1 rating among adults 18-49 according to ABC.
The 81st Academy Awards show managed to bounce off its record low viewership of just over 32 million last year, gaining a bit over 13% in average viewership. But still was the third lowest rated Oscars in history. For the night, ABC averaged 29.1 million viewers and a 9.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, both up from the fast affiliate results last year.
Both the Barbara Walters Special and Oscars Red Carpet pre shows were up from last year as well.
As it did last year, Fox counter programmed well with the NASCAR Sprint Cup race from Fontana, CA, averaging 9.7 million viewers and a 3.6 rating in the 18-49 demo, about the same as last year. CBS was well back, doing about the same as last year as the Amazing Race and repeats last night were on par with Big Brother and Dexter from the WGA strike period. For NBC, Dateline and the Top 100 Most Outrageous Moments special did a bit better than 4 L&O:SVU repeats last year. The dreck the CW programmed this year did as well in the 18-49 demo as the dreck they programmed last year.
Note that these fast affiliate ratings numbers are not time zone adjusted, and particularly for the live events on ABC and Fox are subject to significant revision, see below.
For comparison here is last Sunday’s overnight report.
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| Time | Net | Show | Viewers Live+SD (000s) | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | 18-34 Rating | 18-34 Share |
| 7:00 | ABC | Barbara Walters Special | 17.710 | 5.3 | 14 | 4.6 | 14 |
| FOX | NASCAR Sprint Cup: Fontana | 9.943 | 3.5 | 9 | 2.4 | 7 | |
| CBS | 60 Minutes | 9.151 | 1.7 | 5 | 1.2 | 4 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 4.505 | 1.1 | 3 | 0.7 | 2 | |
| UNI | Hora Pico | 2.132 | 1.0 | 3 | 1.0 | 3 | |
| CW | Jericho (repeat) | 0.795 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | |
| 7:30 | CW | Tomorrow Never Dies (movie) | 1.115 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 |
| 8:00 | ABC | Oscars Red Carpet | 29.895 | 9.3 | 22 | 8.2 | 23 |
| FOX | NASCAR Sprint Cup: Fontana | 9.503 | 3.5 | 8 | 2.7 | 7 | |
| CBS | Amazing Race 14 | 7.832 | 2.6 | 6 | 1.8 | 5 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 4.710 | 1.4 | 3 | 0.9 | 2 | |
| UNI | El Gran Estreno: Voces Inocentes (movie) | 3.366 | 1.4 | 3 | 1.4 | 4 | |
| CW | Tomorrow Never Dies (movie) | 1.244 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | |
| 8:30 | ABC | 81st Academy Awards | 37.699 | 12.2 | 28 | 11.0 | 28 |
| 9:00 | ABC | 81st Academy Awards | 33.914 | 11.3 | 25 | 10.3 | 25 |
| FOX | NASCAR Sprint Cup: Fontana | 9.606 | 3.7 | 8 | 2.8 | 7 | |
| CBS | Cold Case (repeat) | 6.903 | 1.6 | 4 | 1.1 | 3 | |
| NBC | Top 100 Most Outrageous Moments 2 | 5.180 | 1.7 | 4 | 1.1 | 3 | |
| UNI | El Gran Estreno: Voces Inocentes (movie) | 3.879 | 1.6 | 4 | 1.6 | 4 | |
| CW | Tomorrow Never Dies (movie) | 1.570 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | 81st Academy Awards | 31.170 | 10.8 | 26 | 9.9 | 26 |
| NBC | Top 100 Most Outrageous Moments 2 | 6.849 | 2.2 | 5 | 1.7 | 4 | |
| CBS | The Unit (repeat) | 5.429 | 1.2 | 3 | 0.8 | 2 | |
| UNI | ¿Quién Tiene la Razón? | 2.171 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.7 | 2 |
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Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
For more information see Numbers 101.
Color me surprised. Practically everyone I know blew off the Oscars this year. (But then it’s not like I know the entire population of the United States. Don’t mean to pull a Pauline Kael.
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I guess NASCAR failed to draw away from OSCARS?
i think the time zone adjustment pushes this out of record low territory for sure. for LA anything included in these numbers was after the Oscars were already over, it also doesn’t include 11p-12a and if the metered markets hold up in trend if not overall accuracy, the last half hour was the second most-watched half hour.
Andy, the NASAR race this year seems to have done almost exactly the same as it did last year.
Bill, you by far are on the spot with info no one else could get. Thanks!! PS: Yes I am being snarky, no offense.
I watched the start and swore I was watching The Tony’s. I’m not surprised that people who started tuning in started tuning out.
I’m rather surprised the numbers were up as well – though, as you said, it will still be one of the worst ratings.
What is interesting is that the counter-programming did the same numbers as last year. So, essentially, the Oscar improvement is solely due to people not watching the cable competition or actually turning on their TVs who didn’t last year.
Therefore, much of last year’s ratings funk could be simply strike related – people simply stopped watching TV Sundays then, and have gone back to old habits by now.
Is that a series low for Amazing Race?
i thought the oscars would have a bigger audience than that. i was thinking more like 40-50 million. does this seem kinda low?
It is a shame that the Oscar’s are the “pinnacle” for actors and films because they just seem so political and wacky, and it is no surprise that less people are watching the Oscars. 32 years later, I swear I hear a Star Wars reference every day of my life, yet it lost best picture to Annie Hall? They probably only beat last years numbers because people wanted to see if Heath won.
People can say all they want about The Dark Knight not being a Oscar type picture of the year film, but I think it is appalling that Christopher Nolan wasn’t nominated for best director, and the guy who shot the reader was. Nolan has, to quote Heath Ledger as the Joker, “changed things, there’s no going back.” He took a comic book, and brought a true sense of realism to it (starting with Batman Begins). Secondly, the way he shot scenes in IMAX was incredible. Finally, doesn’t he get some credit for bringing out an Oscar winning performance by Ledger? The Dark Knight is full of classic cinema scenes, such as the pencil trick, the Batman/Joker interrogation, and the semi flipping over in downtown Chicago. The Reader…? seriously.
Sorry for the mini-rant, but the Academy shouldn’t be surprised that less and less people are watching the show each year. Viewers speak at the box office, so it shouldn’t come as surprise that when indie babies are walking away with statues, people choose to do something else (Probably watch The Dark Knight on blu-ray)
Oh and when I say, viewers speak at the box office, I realize that doesn’t always mean those movies are good, as Madea goes to Jail made over 40 million dollars this weekend.
The Reader is a good movie but I would prefer Revolutionary Road.
Benjamin Button nomination ia s joke, awful movie.
Marc Berman had a pretty good assessment of CW on Sundays
“Last, and very least (so what else is new?) was the CW with a repeat of Jericho (Viewers: 795,000; A18-49: 0.3/ 1 in the 7 p.m. half hour) and a repeat of theatrical Tomorrow Never Dies (Viewers: 1.35 million; A18-49: 0.4/ 1 from 7:30-10 p.m.). Maybe it is time for the CW to give Sunday back to the affiliates. ”
He hit the nail on the head there.
Academy Awards? Probably the only reason that many watched it was because it was Heath Ledgers farewell.
^Even with those numbers, The CW is up +25% from last year (on Sundays)
Adam, I read somewhere that The Dark Knight grossed more money in its first four days than all of the best picture nominations have combined. I agree with you 100%, but the day will never come when the Academy will consider summer blockbusters and especially not superhero movies. They’re way too elitist to go that route, and it’s a real shame because it’s made the Oscars a joke, aside from Heath and Wall-E, I’d be amazed at how many people watching had even heard of these movies.
Nick C, you say that like it’s a bad thing. Some of us like the Tonys, you know!
I foolishly watched the last 45 minutes of the Oscars and I thought it was terrible, especially when previous winners came out and worshipped the nominees for best actress and actor. That made me want to puke.
I used to LOVE the Oscars, but I stopped watching about four years ago because I saw that it had almost nothing to do with real merit. AND it had become way too predictable/political. As I suspected, Slumdog Millionaire cleared out the Oscar wins. I thought that movie was fantastic, but the Oscar’s view of things is way too narrow. ITA with those who think Christopher Nolan should have got a Best Director Oscar nod. The Oscars are too snobbish to recognize that a superhero movie can actually be a well-made movie. For me anyway, its relevancy is somewhere around a Miss America pageant level.
Mandi, your comment reminded me of a quote I read recently (I’m betting that Robert will remind me where), “Remember when the Super Bowl was boring and the Oscars were exciting?”.
The “OSCARS RED CARPET SPECIAL” was c==r==a==a===a===a==p! It made me turn off the show – NO WONDER THESE PEOPLE NEED A SCRIPT….they don’t know how to be sincere or real OR HOW TO TALK…my gosh their small talk was boring – “I’m glad to be here” …(and YOU don’t know what else to say because there’s no script and no one here is saying “ACTION”)-
- and what kind of questions were the MC’s giving??
My wife and popped in a DVD…I thought if this is a preview of what’s to come we’re not watching…blah, blah, blah
Man, in today’s ratings world, going up for any reason at all is a big deal, even if you are some dumb sit-com going up from 7 million to 8 million. So increasing numbers that already in the 30’s, pretty big deal in today’s climate, if you ask me.
Even more impressive is pulling demos in the double figures for any period of time. That’s something you don’t see often anymore. It’s a brand new world now, and I would think, seeing as they were minus a giant hit film being nominated, that the Academy will be thrilled with these numbers. Spin them any way you want, but these were solid numbers, made all the more so by the fact that they improved quite a bit over last year’s all time low.
As for the content of the show, wake up, people. The Oscars are the Oscars. It’s amazing people bitch about the same things year in and year out, as if there was ever a time when the Oscars used to be The John Birch Society Awards Show.
Whether it’s length or content, what’s the point in watching if you have a problem? I mean, the show was long last year, the year before, and the year before, and the decade before that. Take a nap, watch the CW, make out with your spouse, or do whatever, if you don’t like them.
Oh, wait, I always forget that little gay men with rifles invade millions of homes every year and make people watch.
That said, boy, were they nuts with whole Tony awards vibe? And what was that salute to the musical? Because we now live in a time where one musical a year is a hit? How about a salute to Comic Books? You know, the things that are actually keeping Hollywood pictures alive.
Better yet, how about you just blow off the salutes and let Mickey Rourke just talk at length, for like an hour or two. That would be hugely entertaining.
But I actually liked the whole show, and I actually like the whole show every year, because every year I realize that I am tuning into the Oscars, and I know what to expect. Some things are better than others, and some idea is always going to turn out to have been a big mistake (such as showing the Death Pool Montage in miniature), but it is what it is. And if I didn’t like what it is, I’ve got, like, nine million DVDs I could be watching instead.
The real winner in entertainment nowadays is sports….
The Super Bowl had 99 million viewers, the largely pre-cooked and irrelevant [and wacko politicized] Oscars 34 million. Do the math.
I felt a bit ‘eh’ when it was all just Slumdog millionare, the films good but i felt like at times The Dark Knight should have got more recognition.
The ceremony was long but it wasn’t that bad. There have been worse.
I loved the Oscars this year. The stage was beautiful and Hugh Jackman did a fantastic job. I loved the changes they made this year such as having 5 previous winners present for the best actor, actress, supporting actor, actress awards etc. They really revamped it and spiced things up. I was really impressed! I usually don’t watch the entire show, but this time I did.
I watched the Barbara Walters interviews solely for Mickey Rourke (R.I.P., little Loki pup!). Mickey, in his own way, seems quite grounded amidst all the *comeback* attention and critical accolades (well-deserved, he made “The Wrestler” worth seeing). Sure it would be an honor to win the Oscar, he noted. But in the end, you “can’t eat it, can’t *bleep* it, and it won’t get me into heaven.” It was worth an hour of Barbara just to hear that line! Then, the Hugh Jackman interview kept me interested in watching him as host. He’s adorable! So I kept the TV on ABC as I went about typical Sunday night household chores
The Dark Knight is the kind of movie that will get recognition for its special effects not for acting. However, Heath Ledger gave an amazing performance and he got the best recognition.
What more recognition than that? Ledger’s performance was brilliant, but the rest of the cast was awful. Specially Maggie Gyllenhall. Terrible acting. Slumdog is an excellent film. It has a very nice story. That’s the kind of movies the Academy likes.
I will say the honor of Sean Penn in “Milk” over Rourke in “The Wrestler” was probably just as much about politics as it was about their performances.
according to Hibberd:
The Oscars averaged 36.3 million viewers and a 12.1 adults 18-49 rating, up 13% from last season’s all-time low.
full details here
Could’ve been. Rourke deserved the Oscar. I loved Cruz’s win. Arriba España! I agree with Jenna. The 5 past winners presenting the nominees was nice, it was more personalized, as well as presenting the categories in blocks, like the process of making a film, first the scripts, then the art direction, music, make up and so on. That’s why I didn’t think it was boring.
I have to laugh at the people who rant about The Dark Knight. I enjoy comic books, I enjoy comic book movies, but I have never seen one worthy of an Academy Award nomination for best picture, and that goes for The Dark Knight as well. If it weren’t for the death of Heath Ledger, the movie wouldn’t have gotten the buzz, the box office, or the award nominations it was fortunate enough to receive. It’s not that the members of the academy are elitists, it’s that this movie doesn’t deserve a nomination. It’s honestly a mediocre movie at best. I’m just trying to keep it real. Hugh Jackman’s opening number for the Oscars was terrific! There was some good buzz for the Oscars this year so I’m not surprised the numbers were up from last year.
This years oscar nominations were really bad
Benjamin Button – was a bad Cross between Forrest Gump and My Life
Slumdog – Ok , but best movie of the year NO WAY
By the way, is it just me or should they have had Christian Bale give out the award for Best Cinematography? Now THAT would have been funny!
One step further: had Hugh Jackman standing off to the side during the presentation, then have Bale go off on him like a mad man for distracting him, finally chasing him off stage, leaving Bale’s co-presenter to say, “And the nominees are. . .”
I should really produce the Oscars some day.
why are people surprised it was higher than last year….the predictions i saw said it would higher this year as last year the strike weighed on it.
Schmokey.
It would probably have gone a long way towards redeeming himself in the public eye.
rob, I am not surprised it was higher than last year, but I do agree that some in the TV press have been admitting “surprise”. While the trend continues to be down, last year’s results were below the trend, likely because of the strike.
Oscars got boring after I found out they were doing the 5 z-list actors/actresses for the award presentations. Seriously, when were half of those women even relevant? And that girl from the french film last year speaking about Kate Winslet? You could tell that girl was in the WRONG place, because having a z-lister speak about an A-lister is laughable. I almost died when that italian bat spoke for Meryl, what a freakshow!!!
Oscars are trash, Melissa Leo was robbed!!!
Never mind the Dark Knight. Wall-E deserved a nomination for Best Picture, rather than being stuck in the animation ghetto.
Schmokey makes some good points, but I can vaguely recall enjoying bits and pieces of the Oscars in the past. Rarely, but it happened, particularly when it was hosted by somebody I really like, such as Jon Stewart. This year, it was insufferable. So, I’ll complain.
Like many guys, I dislike most showtunes and hammy theatricality so I couldn’t handle Hugh Jackman’s opening number for more than a few moments. He grated. What a bogus choice for host. I wonder if the male demo ratings were WAY down this year, while the female demos probably rose. Jackman is not funny. (Sure, the Daily Show doesn’t get huge ratings in the grand scheme of things, so Stewart probably never helped bring in many Oscar viewers, but then Jackman is not truly a huge star either; as with so many “stars” these days, his movies succeed or fail based on content and/or marketing.)
I’m not sure that the Dark Knight deserved a nomination — its dialogue and heavy-handed moral quandaries were often ponderous and overcooked. But it was still a great movie in a lot of ways, and undoubtedly it should’ve been picked over the Reader, which sounds like a totally morally bankrupt and tasteless movie based on the extensive reviews and analysis I’ve read.
I didn’t watch the Oscars for the first time in years. It was mostly because Hugh Jackman was the host (I mega-loathe him
), but also because they had the balls to nominate *snores* Button and that piece of crap movie Reader that even the dumbass critics hated (along with the rest of the sane world) over movies like Dark Knight.
Why the increase in numbers? I guess because every middle age woman and every gay guy in America re-e-e-e-eally like to watch Jackman.
What are you on, jessy? You think Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Ben Kingsley, Halle Berry, Michael Douglas are “Z-List Actors”????
You wanna talk Z-list actors? Your favorite, Melisa “Who” Leo, she’s a Z-list actor, not the others.
That “girl from the French film” is Marianne Cotillard, and she may be z-list to you but she’s A-list in France.
Just because YOU haven’t heard of someone doesn’t make them “z-list”.
I can’t believe Button beat Batman AND Iron Man for special effects. Academy will always choose the dramas over the comedies and the superhero films… even though, as you all mentioned, the dramas don’t gross as much as the box office.
I notice there was a sharp drop off in viewers after the first half hour. As one of the people who initially tuned in to see Hugh Jackman, but tuned out because the political diatribes started early, let me say this: If I want to listen to politics, I will tune into American Journal on CSPAN.
Thank goodness PBS was showing Antiques Roadshow and Oliver Twist part deux!
Jessie– Sophia Loren is a great lady who is still beautiful: not an “Italian Bat.” I only wish the actresses today had half of her class and charm.
What Alan & Just Sayin’ responded to Jessy.
Rourke was robbed, and even Penn showed a smidgeon of class by mentioning Mickey in his acceptance. Welcome back, Mickey.
Gut feeling: I watched MASH reruns, which I also am bored by, and every time I turned it to see ANY kind of award it was so schmaltzy I thought I was watching an SNL parody. If I was a conspiracy type I’d say everybody got together and put on the worst possible competition for the sake of the industry, which I think is what happened, and which honestly I’m not sure I can argue with. Sometimes you do have tyo show Solidarity. Well, God blerss em, the Slumdeogs story WAS a great story, so, hmm. Good show, I guess.
Quit whining about Dark Knight….didn’t even make my Top Ten list last year and I consider it to be the best comic book movie ever made. Granted, it was certainly better than The Reader/Benjamin Button, but so were The Wrestler, Wall-E, Vicky Christina Barcelona, etc. Having TDK be nominated may have tacked on an extra 10-20 million viewers, but it would have diluted the entire show. What’s the point of having a large Oscar audience if most of the viewers are rooting for one movie because it’s the only one they’ve seen? Frankly, the Academy Awards are spot-on in the technical categories and solid everywhere else…if you don’t like the choices they make or whine about them not honoring blockbusters, then I guess you’re not a fan of CINEMA which is the whole point of the show.
All in all, great show with some much needed twists to the old format. Jai Ho!
I think we can all agree the Oscars had a better host than the joke that was the Emmys.
DaisiesDeathKnell, you sound like the arrogant elitists of the Academy. It’s that same reasoning that nothing summer blockbuster or comic book related will never get nominated for any of the big awards. I’d like you to show your top ten list so everybody looking at these comments can shoot them down, because there weren’t 10 movies better than it this year. What’s the point of Oscar viewers all rooting for one movie? Well, I’d take that against them watching movies nominated that they’ve NEVER seen! Just because we think the Oscars are a complete joke, we aren’t fans of cinema? I think a majority of movie fans couldn’t give two craps about what the Academy thinks are the year’s best movies. So I guess that leaves you and the handful of people that put any stock into what these awards mean as the true “fans of cinema”…
I thought the Oscars were excellent this year. More creative writing, extra classy stage and props,and Hugh Jackman as host. He is one talented man!
It was more relaxed and very enjoyable.
haha yea, I thought Hugh was awesome! Go wolverine!!!!
When are the Hollywierds gonna get it. We are living in a time when people don’t have jobs, thus no food, electricity, etc. The last thing anyone wants to do is sit around watching a bunch of elitist liberals partying it up in designer gowns! And for what…pretend play…because that is just about what acting is. And just about anyone can do it. Can anybody say Micky Rourke? I mean I can see the Grammys…at least there is an element of talent there. I hope Hollywood and all of its young bucks fall into the ocean. We are sick of you and all of your ridiculously left wing spoutings!
“Oh i can’t live! What are the celebrities doing?” This is why America has become so dumb down and how we let a communist slip into the white house. Hey, you’ll have no freedom, no money, but at least you’ll know how much plastic surgery Mickey Rourke has had! What a country!
Blow up your TV throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own
-Johnn Prine
The thing about the movies are that the illusion of their relevance is gone. Now, it’s just the same people doing the same thing over and over again, then they go to these award shows and tell us how were supposed to be as a society. I can’t relate to a Sean Penn person who goes to Iraq and takes photos with Sadaams right hand man so they can use it against us, I certainly don’t care what Bill Maher has to say. They called America the country with the most murders in it and who paid to see that little film. Kids die they found a way to make money off it.
I watched a little of it last night and it looked like rich people giving themselves awards for some reason. None of it looked like it was important at all.
How do you people watch this?
Vader, why does it make me an elitist because The Dark Knight failed to make Top Ten and I didn’t think it deserved a nomination? It still made my Top 20….
Here’s my list, and having only seen four of the ten films nominated for Foreign Film/Documentary, it’s subject to change even more.
1. Wall-E
2. Changeling
3. The Wrestler
4. Milk
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. Vicky Christina Barcelona
7. The Edge Of Heaven
8. Encounters At The End Of The World
9. Let The Right One In
10. Chop Shop
As for the irritating right wing comments from people that don’t appreciate film, along with their communist conspiracy theories, honestly, go get a hobby.
“Frankly, the Academy Awards are spot-on in the technical categories”
That must be why Roger Deakins, Kevin O’Connell and Thomas Newman have a combined zero Academy Awards, while the cinematographer of “Slumdog Millionaire,” the hacks who mixed “Black Hawk Down,” and the Three 6 Mafia have three.
Bad show and talent-free winners, as usual, but then George C. Scott pretty much said it all in the ’70s. The Emmys at least TRY to recognize actual talent when handing out the statuettes, without voting exclusively based on who sent out the nicest gift basket or who’s the correct race, sexual preference, nationality, political affiliation of the moment.
I agree with you that “The Dark Knight” didn’t deserve a best picture nod… or a supporting actor one, for that matter. Where’s James Dean’s pity party Oscar?