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Ratings for the Academy Awards were the highest they’ve been in five years. Its believed that the boost has to do with the inclusion of box office hits like Avatar and The Blind Side in the best picture race.
Figures from the Nielsen media research company show an average of 41.3 million viewers watched Sunday’s broadcast from the Kodak Theatre. That’s 14 percent more than last year’s telecast watched by 36.3 million. It was the largest television audience for the Oscars since 2005 which averaged 42.1 million viewers. Seventy million viewers watched at least six minutes of Sunday’s telecast, according to Nielsen.
