Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, where we’re kicking off Oscars week with the annual Awards Season Awards, some new data on who watches these awards shows, and, as usual…

🚨🚨The Oscars ratings contest! Win status-defining Puck merch by replying to this email by Sunday at noon with your best guess of Live+Same Day viewers. Remember, last year’s show lured 19.9 million, up about 8 percent from 2022. Following bumps for the Globes and Grammys (who knows what the SAG Awards did on Netflix?), and with big hits facing off in Oppenheimer and Barbie, will we see a 10 percent increase? More?

Programming note: This week on The Town, Lucas Shaw and I debated whether to hit the Panic button at Warner Bros. Discovery, Ben Thompson offered Disney advice on how to deal with Sora, and Michael Schulman defended Bradley Cooper’s Oscar campaign. Subscribe here and here.

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Discussed in this issue: Dan Lin, David Zaslav, Bradley Cooper, Adam Driver, Charles Melton, Tim Cook, Bill Kramer, Doug Liman, Ted Sarandos, David Greenbaum, Emma Stone, Ava DuVernay, Marc Benioff, Peter Thiel, and… Brian Grazer’s Saudi schmooze-fest.

But first…