Los Angeles – On the attendance record the doldrums follows: The transmission of the Academy Awards has the lowest number of audience brought in six years. 36.6 million viewers watched, according to the market researcher Nielsen Company moderated by Neil Patrick Harris Galain the night from Sunday to Monday. It was, according to Nielsen market researchers, the lowest number since 2009. At that time was “Slumdog Millionaire” Best Film.
Last year, 43.7 million still had turned – as many as never before. At that time, led Ellen DeGeneres as host the award ceremony.Traditionally, the Academy Awards in the US, the most-watched show of the year – after the Super Bowl. For football mega-event switch worldwide around 100 million viewers. In Germany, every year to see only a few hundred thousand the Oscars live at ProSieben.
The striking minus 2015, have lain among other things, that among the “Best Film” nominated works – except for “American Sniper” – hardly cinema blockbusters were. In addition, there had been a debate in the run-racism. The Academy was accused to a “white” show to offer, as only a few African Americans were among the nominees.
Singer John Legend (Best Original Song “Glory” of the civil rights drama “Selma”) took up the issue in his acceptance speech again and stood up for the rights of blacks: “Today, there are more blacks under the control of Justice as in the days of slavery in 1850, “he said
Host Neil Patrick Harris remained mostly apolitical, but he also tries to play a joke about.” whitest, uh, the brightest star in Hollywood “- given the few nominations for blacks ,
For a stir and countless Twitter reactions Harris made a brief appearance in white underpants – an allusion to a “Birdman” scene, in the lead actor Michael Keaton half naked running around on Broadway because his bathrobe in a smoking break in a heavy fire door clamp remains.
In Germany the fans missed shortly after the start of the live broadcast of the ceremony of Supporting Actor Simmons. About seven minutes they saw only the Academy logo. The station ProSieben told to justify with: “abgerauscht line.”
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