Why do you think the Super Bowl gets so many viewers year after year while Oscar ratings plummet?

[Johonny]

47. Because its an award given by a very select group

To people in movies you most likely didn't watch. You get tired of trying to understand how most of the best movies on various great movie lists, never won an Oscar. How many of the most famous actors living today never won an Oscar? It turns out, a surprising a lot of them. Hey, it's big news Tom Cruise wasn't at the Oscars this year. Why? Why should he go, he's never nominated despite being a huge Box Office draw. Harrison Ford, never won nothing. Joseph Cotten is in three movies that are in most greatest lists top 20, he was never nominated for an Oscar. I mean, he has zero nominations. Alfred Hitchcock never won the best director Oscar. Hitchcock! Last year Avatar II made about 1 zillion dollars. It's also not horrible, but it was nowhere in the big categories on Oscar night. Same for Top Gun II. I mean, they expanded the category nominations to get more big films nominations and big names on the list, but they still didn't bother to do it.

Watching the Oscars is like watching the Super Bowl only if after watching for 4 hrs KC bests the Eagles in a see-saw match on the field, in the post game you watch the commissioner march out the Jets and give them the trophy.

That's why people don't watch anymore.