Imagine if you were watching the 2017 Oscars and just as La La Land was announced for Best Picture, your feed was cut off. Or if you want to have a better window into what I just went through while eagerly watching the 2025 Oscar winners being chosen, imagine if you missed the last two categories of the night. due to a huge and seemingly easy-to-avoid streaming service mistake.

That’s exactly what just happened, as myself and every other Hulu subscription holder without the Live TV add-on missed the tail end of the ceremony, from Mikey Madison’s Best Actress win on. One moment, I’m watching James Cameron directing on-set during a Rolex commercial, and in the next was notified that the show had ended and I should start watching something else.

If it wasn’t for our Oscars 2025 live blog, as well as the various tweets celebrating and questioning Anora's late wins throughout the Internet, I wouldn’t have known that Sean Baker's drama became the top winner of the night. And I’m not the only person who noticed this horrible twist of fate. Running through a bunch of social media reactions on X, I saw a bunch of hysterical reactions that caused Hulu to trend for all the wrong reasons:

• “hulu cutting the oscars because we were told to go back to theaters instead of streaming services” - @joyIuv
• “Adrian Brody’s Oscar speech was so long that it made the Oscar broadcast go past its viewing time on Hulu” - @Nikstrick
• “Them letting Adrien Brody ramble on for ten minutes and then Hulu cutting the feed?