Just 32.9m people watched Sunday night’s show, down 3% overall year-on-year, and dropping 13% among adults between 18-49.
In 1998, a record 57.3m people watched James Cameron’s Titanic romance trawl its way to 11 wins.
A recent high water mark came in 2014, when Ellen DeGeneres hosted, 12 Years a Slave triumphed and 43.7m people tuned in.
That represents a nine-year-low, and makes this year’s ceremony the third-least-watched of the century.
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