The ratings for the program were good... USA Today reported:
Sunday's Academy Awards drew 43.7 million viewers, marking the top awards show's biggest total in 14 years, according to final Nielsen figures.
The 3½-hour event, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, continued an upward trend for awards shows and other live events, with audiences stoked by social media. Nielsen's SocialGuide estimates 13.9 million saw Oscar-related tweets Sunday night.
The Oscars, which awarded the best picture to 12 Years a Slave, gave seven awards to Gravity and spread the rest among several films, were up 8% from last year's telecast, hosted by Seth MacFarlane, and up 11% from 2012, when Billy Crystal returned as host.
So how did I do? A record setting 20 out of 24! And all the top categories!
I missed Best Production Design (The Great Gatsby), Best Film Editing (Gravity), Best Short Film (Mr. Hublot), and Best Short Film (Helium). I picked "Captain Phillips" for film editing knowing that Gravity would probably win, but I thought it deserved it for the way it told the story.
So ends the discussion of films from 2013... and onto 2014... will "The Lego Movie" win Best Animated Feature Film? Stay tuned! :)
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