The Nielsen ratings are in and they are reporting that last night’s ceremony, the 80th Annual Oscars broadcast on ABC is the least watched since 1974. That’s when the ratings started being tracked.

As expected, without nominated films like “Lord of the Rings” or “Titanic” there’s very little interest for lame red-state Americans to tune in and as a result last night’s Oscar telecast that featured big wins by films like “No Country for Old Men” pulled in only 32 million American viewers (over 800 million viewers worldwide.)

2003 telecast was the previous all-time low with 33 million viewers (”Chicago” won Best Picture in 2003) and last year’s ceremony had 40 million people watching (”The Departed” from Martin Scorsese won Best Picture last year.)

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