Early Oscar Ratings Suggest Slightly Fewer Viewers Than Last Year

The Oscars appear to have dodged a bullet. In a difficult year for the ABC telecast – two youthful and untested hosts and a group of top races with heavy favorites – early ratings from 56 markets were down only a smidge from last year.

本届奥斯卡似乎可以说是躲过一劫。在两名未经考验首次担任奥斯卡主持的年轻人主持下，在一群热门获奖影片以及获奖人的参与下，即使ABC广播公司面临各种困难，昨天奥斯卡颁奖典礼的收视率也只比去年下降了一点点而已。

Among adults 18 to 49 in these markets, the 83rd Academy Awards posted a 14.5 rating, down from 14.8 last year, according to Nielsen. Early ratings results for Sunday night’s broadcast of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony on ABC pointed toward an overall audience of 37.6 million, about 4 million viewers short of last year’s 41.7 million.

在第83届奥斯卡颁奖典礼的收视人群中，相较于去年14.8%的收视率，今年18至49岁的观众群收视率为14.5%。观看周日晚颁奖典礼的总人数为三千七百六十万，相较于去年的四千一百七十万减少了四百万观众。

The viewership figures mean that these annual movie awards are still chugging along as a spectacle one-third the size of the Super Bowl, almost as big as a good playoff game and down about 34 percent from their own contemporary ratings peak, in 1998, when “Titanic” helped deliver more than 57 million viewers.

这样的收视率说明观看这个一年一度电影盛事的观众人数几乎和观看一场精彩超级碗赛事决赛的人数差不多，不过相较于1998年《泰坦尼克号》创造的五千七百万的收视顶峰来说，还是下降了34%。