The show was broadcast on ABC, as it has been for decades, but also streamed live on Hulu, where there were glitches.

There’s a whole world of action happening in between commercial breaks, and at the lobby bar in the Dolby Theatre.

Anora won five Academy Awards, including best picture. Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin won best supporting actress and actor. Flow and No Other Land won best animated feature film and best documentary.

UPDATED: Nielsen’s finalized reporting of Sunday’s Oscars telecast has brought the total from 18.1 to 19.7 million viewers. Rather than a 7% decrease from last year’s show, this indicates a 1% increase.

Scarlett Johansson, who sat next to Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco at the Oscars on March 2, said she witnessed "a lot of very cute, honeymoon-phase cuteness" between the duo.

Smaller movies didn’t mean smaller viewer numbers for the Oscars. An estimated 19.7 million viewers watched Sunday night’s 97th Academy Awards ceremony, the biggest audience in five years.

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