Michael Cieply: Suddenly, This Looks Like The Long-Awaited Oscar Comeback Year
deadline.comThe writers have settled. Actors and companies return to the table this week. The awards season is saved (almost, we hope).
This could finally be it. Do we dare even say it? The year of The Great Oscar Comeback. Everyone with a stake in the Academy Awards has watched with chagrin as the Oscar audience began its long, slow slide from a 2014 peak, with 43.6 million viewers when 12 Years a Slave took top honors.
It then crashed to a miserable Covid-low of 10.4 million in 2021, when Nomadland won, before struggling back to a still anemic audience of 18.7 million as Everything Everwhere All At Once prevailed last March.
In all, it’s been a lousy decade for the movie awards game. Rare is the player who hasn’t worried that the fans are gone, just like beaver when the mountain men (see, e.g., Jeremiah Johnson, The Big Sky) trapped them out.
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