{"id":2335601,"date":"2026-03-18T20:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2335601"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:46:23","slug":"oscar-ratings-way-down-everything-needs-to-change-awards-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oscar-ratings-way-down-everything-needs-to-change-awards-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Ratings Way Down \u2013 Everything Needs to Change \u2013 Awards Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone that Oscar ratings were down. They dropped about 2 million on network television (and streaming combined), landing around 18 million this year after hovering near 20 million last year. But the real story isn\u2019t ratings vs. streaming. It\u2019s much bigger and deeper than that.<\/p>\n

The decline has less to do with the fall of network TV and the rise of streaming than with a widespread lack of interest in films and Hollywood itself. Celebrities were invented to sell movie tickets\u2014so were the Oscars. The public likes celebrities less and less, finds most movies unwatchable, and doesn\u2019t think they\u2019re worth the time. The Academy didn\u2019t create this problem, and it can\u2019t fix it. Hollywood is an empire in collapse. Unless it pivots dramatically\u2014or until it collapses entirely\u2014it will stay on life support.<\/p>\n

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Most people who cover Hollywood can\u2019t speak the truth, even if they see it. They\u2019re forbidden from doing so, and they know it. Look at me: a cautionary tale. I can\u2019t tell you how many friends I have who support me in secret, living quiet lives of desperation, terrified to speak their minds. They\u2019ve simply accepted this as reality\u2014never challenging it, fighting back, or trying to change it.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Sean Penn, Adam McKay, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Fonda, and all the self-serving celebrities who pretend to be outspoken and brave are just pushing the same deceptive lies the Left has told itself for years. If you shun half the country\u2014if every joke, movie, and TV show reflects only one way of thinking\u2014your industry will collapse. It\u2019s only a matter of time. They can\u2019t see it because of their shared enemy, their mass delusion: Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Hollywood lost its mind over Trump\u2019s 2016 win and destroyed itself in the process. I hope to write a book about it someday, because I lived through it. Nothing like this has ever happened in America before, largely because we\u2019ve never lived through the internet era as we are now. The rise of Barack Obama and social media let us all build an insular bubble that many on the Left still mistake for reality. It wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s win hit like the Devil riding into Salem for a people without religion, having escaped it during the 1960s counterculture. After decades of filling that void with sex, drugs, rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, cults, and self-help, politics became the substitute. Obama became a god-like figure, making the Left desperate not just to be<\/i> good but to be seen<\/i> as Good People Doing Good Things. That required casting Trump as the ultimate bad guy, with his supporters as sworn enemies threatening our utopia.<\/p>\n

As you can see, ratings started dipping in 2016. Hollywood aligned itself with Obama as one massive cult-like religion, encompassing major cultural institutions, corporations, and media. They declared themselves the \u201cresistance\u201d: you\u2019re with us or against us.<\/p>\n

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It got worse\u2014mass hysteria swept the online Left over racism and sexual assault, with Trump tried and convicted in the court of public opinion, yet still winning by a slim Electoral College margin. Everything that happened to the Left echoed Salem in 1692 for the same reasons: no ridding the village of witchcraft once the belief takes hold. It became impossible to see Trump as the guy everyone knew for decades. Now he was Voldemort\u2014the living embodiment of evil to the Left: heterosexual, masculine, white, male, saying whatever he wants, making offensive jokes, representing the world before Woketopia.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoodness\u201d became the foundational religion. Hollywood movies had to reflect it. Filmmakers and actors had to be<\/i> good and signal virtue on social media. But goodness requires a named bad\u2014and that bad became average working-class Americans who remember the good old days of Animal House<\/i>, Mad Magazine<\/i>, and The Godfather<\/i>. To be good, you point the finger at those people over there.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a business relying on ticket sales or ratings, how do you appeal to people you\u2019ve demonized and shunned for a decade? You can\u2019t. You don\u2019t even know them anymore.<\/p>\n

Woody Allen\u2019s Sleeper<\/i> captures the utopian Left better than almost anything\u2014even though his \u201cresistance\u201d is Communist. It shows two realities: Diane Keaton\u2019s brave new world, cut off from reality and controlled by propaganda, a ruling class pampered but stripped of the foundational freedom art requires. It\u2019s clearly riffing on 1984<\/i>, which also templates what happened when we built a Shining Woketopia online.<\/p>\n