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   The Oscars television audience fell 20 percent from a year ago   
   to its lowest point in the show's 92-year history.   
      
   Sunday's Oscars struck two notable milestones. In a sign of   
   evolution, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences   
   awarded its best picture prize to a non-English-language film   
   for the first time in its 92-year history. But domestic ratings   
   for the barrier-breaking show were also the lowest ever.   
      
   United States viewership dropped 20 percent from a year ago, to   
   an average TV audience of 23.6 million total viewers, according   
   to Walt Disney Company-owned ABC, citing data from Nielsen.   
      
   ABC broadcast the ceremony, which did not have a host for the   
   second year in a row and included performances by Janelle Monae   
   and Eminem. The show's presenters included Steve Martin, Chris   
   Rock, Mindy Kaling and Salma Hayek.   
      
   This year the Academy was widely criticised for not nominating   
   any women for the best director category, and the ceremony   
   included jokes and remarks about that exclusion and the list of   
   20 acting nominees that included just one person of colour.   
      
   The South Korean social satire, Parasite, made history by   
   becoming the first non-English language film to win best   
   picture. Director Bong Joon Ho's movie also won three other   
   awards including best director, beating out veterans such as   
   Martin Scorsese. The movie's wins made history in both the   
   Hollywood and South Korean film industries. The class satire is   
   the first non-English-language film to win the best picture in   
   the history of the Academy Awards, and is the first South Korean   
   movie to ever win an Oscar.   
      
   Renee Zellweger won the best actress award for her performance   
   as Judy Garland in the musical biopic, Judy, while Joaquin   
   Phoenix won best actor for his performance in Joker.   
      
   The average unit cost for a 30-second TV advertisement during   
   the ceremony ranged from $1.69m to $2.27m, according to the   
   research firm SQAD. ABC owns broadcast rights for the Oscars   
   through 2028.   
      
   The ceremony drew negative reviews from the Hollywood press.   
   Dominic Patten described it as a "lackluster circus" in Deadline   
   Hollywood.   
      
   "Maybe every award show doesn't need a host? This one sure did,"   
   wrote Daniel Fienberg in the Hollywood Reporter.   
      
   "The structure and fluidity that an emcee can help provide was   
   exactly what this telecast was missing, which doesn't mean that   
   a Billy Crystal or Ricky Gervais would have solved everything   
   that was weird about what was a telecast without a clear theme,   
   message, agenda or cohering purpose," Fienberg said.   
      
   https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/oscar-slump-academy-awards-   
   ratings-hit-time-200210205040702.html   
      
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