New Delhi:

Best actor winner Adrian Body broke the record for the longest Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday, as a long gala took a short rating dip, reaching some 18 million people on the US network ABC and Streamer Hulu.

Despite promising to be “brief” on many occasions during its marathon monologue, Cruelist Star Body exhibited five minutes and 40 seconds on the stage, crossing the old records of the eight decades.

The ceremony itself, in which Indie with a low budget Anora Five Oscars were taken with the best pictures, overran for about four hours.

British star Greer Garson, who won the best actress Mrs. Miniver In 1943, according to the Guinness World Records website, the record was held with a speech of five minutes and 30 seconds.

The academy presented the time limit with music and the practice of the winners of “play” with music following Garsson’s speech. But Body ordered the orchestra to stop on Sunday.

“Please, stop the music. I have done so,” Body said, who won the best actor in 2003 the piano Guys.

“This is not my first rhodio, but I will be brief. I will not be arrogant, I promise,” the broady said, continues for another 90 seconds.

The initial 18.1 million US audience figures shared by ABC on Monday include Hulu. Oscars first lived live on streaming, with technical glitter that some online audiences recalled the final awards.

This means that recently the three -year streak of better Oscar rating has ended.

Last year’s comparable initial rating figure was 19.5 million, for a gala that saw Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer Prize dominates, and showed live music performance from Smash Hit Barbie,

During the Covid-19 epidemic, the Oscar ratings drowned as 10.4 million.

The Academy Award was regularly at the top of 40 million a decade ago.

Sunday night show received positive reviews.

The variety “did not successfully successfully succeeded the 97th Academy Awards,” and Conan O’Brien said “while walking on the right line between acid and affection, shaken its beginning in the host.”

Los Angeles Times generally declared the show “usually navigable despite a futile tour in a dance-singing salute for James Bond Films.”

Indeeweire called it “one of the best Oscar telecasts in the years”, but the Hollywood reporter found the evening “unstable” and “uneven”.

Body’s extended speech was probably appropriate CruelistA three -and -a -half -hour drama which consists of a interval.

Body plays the role of a magnificent architect who is haunted by Holocaust, who moves to the post of World War II to start a new life.

The actor used his speech to thank more than a dozen people, including his mother and father, Cruelist Director Brady Corbett, co-star Gai Pierce and Felicity Jones and his girlfriend Georgina Chapman.

In a bizarre moment in his way of going on stage, Body stopped and removed the gum chewing from his mouth, throwing it to Chapman, who caught him.

“I forgot that I was chewing gum …” I got to get rid of somehow! “

Body concluded his speech with a more serious note.

“If the past can teach us anything, it is a reminder not to let the hatred go uncontrolled,” he said.

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