Nah, Crystal gracefully got stale himself. His style of comedy, while it lives on in the film _Here Today_ (for which he deserves to get Best Actor noms) and the technically-a-midquel animated series _Monsters at Work,_ won’t overcome the now distastefully-political Oscars telecast.
It would be nice to see him back, but not to have to present all these horrible movies. Today’s pace is more like horrible comedians presenting horrible movies. Like Amy Schumer presenting an award to Power of the Dog Sht. An American West cowboy movie filmed in ..............Australia. Maybe if Hollywood went back to making good movies and the actors stopped being so political then yeah I’d want to see billy Crystal back. There is No comparison Billy Crystal was the best at the oscars, when movies were actually amazing.
@@jawojnicki The oscars are b.s now. I think less and less ppl care bc all these actors use it as their activist soapbox. Billy Crystal is better than what the oscars and Hollywood has turned into
I love how that’s the euphemism for a Best Picture nominee that’s not also nominated in Best Director, which pretty much kills your chances at winning the former (unless you’re _Argo_ and _Green Book,_ both of which I love, btw). UPDATE: _Argo, Green Book,_ and now _CODA._
@@Wired4Life2 Yes, it happens again and again now, but back in the days, you didn't have a shot in hell to win if your movie wasn't nominated for best director. Of course next to The Silence of the Lambs, none of them had too much chance at winning Best Picture.
I love knowing there was a year when Silence of the Lambs and Beauty and the Beast were competing for best picture... we'll never ever see a contest like that again
DogsWhoHuntLions That's not even kinda similar. I mean that was a big budget epic and a drama... my two were a horror movie and a disney cartoon, couldn't be more different if you tried
The greatest host ever. Carried on with a high fever. Acknowledged Barbra Streisand who was always overlooked. He's an absolute mensch. He's the last great American-Jewish comedian. Treasure him America there won't be another any time soon.
Nobody brings it like Billy. He's the greatest Oscars host of all time. How I used to look forward to watching the show all those years. But today, in 2018, those days are gone,- sadly-and The Oscars have become devoid of class. The telecast has become almost unbearable to watch.
I hear you bro, I used t watch the Oscar's every year till about 2008. To me the best years were the ones where Billy Crystal hosted. If you look at the Oscars for the last 7 or 8 years they seem dark and depressing, not even half as fun as the Oscars from the 90's and early 2000's.
On Watch What Happens Live, Billy Crystal told Andy that he had pneumonia that night with 103 degree temperature! God bless Billy! The show must go on!
I remember exactly where I was when I watched these Oscars live back in 1992. I was 12 years old and me and my mom were on vacation at Disneyworld watching it together in our hotel room while we were having room service for dinner. I really miss those days.
Very curiously I was 12 too when first saw it, and still is my favorite and all time Oscars show 1992 with Billy C. Amazing, two kids same age, one in Portugal at home alone watching it late hours (time-zone) 😅 and other in DisneyWorld. Wish you all the best, and I still I have a greatest passion about the movies
Can't understand how he did it. When I have a slight fever I can't even get out of bed. He must have had some medication to make him stay sober all night
This is an example of courage: Billy Crystal was hosting this ceremony while battling a bout of pneumonia. According to Crystal, sometimes during commercials, Paul Newman would give him a pillow to lie on. Thank you Billy for hosting next year's Oscars. No doubt it will be great... Navid
I hope that there's a film to sweep the magnificent OSCARS in the millennium • Best Picture • Best Actor • Best Actress • Best Director • Best Screenplay (Original/Adapted)
Funny, when I think about Billy Crystal I saw him back in the late 70s in Miami, FL and he was so funny - and knew he would make it in show business as you can see! There was another show business actress but she didn't make it as well as Billy Crystal - he truly is a charismatic personality - love him! That's what makes it - talent and charismatic personality.
Thanks so much for putting this up. I remember watching this live, and I watched the recording many times I could sing the lyrics to Crystal's montage but lost the tape. this is what youtube is for.
Billy was sick with pneumonia during this broadcast. They said that Paul Newman would give him a pillow to lay his head down during the commercial breaks.
this was the first Oscar night I got to stay up late to watch and was a great night in the predicting game: 10 predictions, 10 winners...and 5 went to the big winner: The Silence of the Lambs.
3:03-3:30, host Billy Crystal making a great Orion joke, and who would’ve thought that 5 years after this Oscar telecast, Orion would be purchased by MGM?!?
In 1997, Orion was finally purchased by MGM and made an exclusive deal with Warner Home Video to distribute a wide range of titles such as Amadeus, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Tell Me a Riddle, Dressed to Kill, The Terminator, Code of Silence, Dances with Wolves, Prancer, the Bill & Ted trilogy, The Earthling, The Bounty, No Way Out, Cadillac Man, The Silence of the Lambs, Ulee's Gold among others under Time Warner.
Jeez...I was 32, watching this with my wife and just turned 8 year old little girl. It's hard to believe that life was ever this innocent and simple...affordable.
Classic stuff. Just shows how much and how far today's Oscar shows have fallen in viewings, ratings and simple fun with all their passing the coveted emcee job around to any old C-list actor that ticks the "right boxes" on Twitter. Will always miss Billy doing the Oscar monologues.
Brilhant mention to Barbra Streisand. Its odd how academy snobs great performances and directions over politics just like this years snob to Zero Dark Thirty and Jessica Chastain.
0:42 That's how you incorporate politics into the Oscars. Make a little joke and then move on rather than make the entire freaking monologue about politics like nowadays. Billy Crystal is so good that I go out of my way to watch him perform for my ceremony that occurred 30 years ago.
Yikes, no. Replace _The Prince of Tides_ in Best Picture with _Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Boyz 'n the Hood,_ or _Thelma & Louise,_ and the category would've attained all-time greatness.
Fun, funny, glamorous event filled with film legends watched by millions around the world. At the opposite side of the globe, I would be glued to the screen back then, wide eyes. It was Hollywood. Real Hollywood. It looked like an exclusive club. Everyone can dream of getting in and if you have the talent and glamour, it will be hard but you can get in. And it will mean something - instead of we've got here. Look how far we've come. Insipid, humorless and play for safe ceremony filled with boy and girl actors in polished suit and dress just got out acting school but on their first nominations already - and the majority of them will be unheard of again before 40s- with impalpable knowledge of real cinema. It's a pathetic shadow of the past. Let it end.
@Marcus G, it's actually quite common for at least one DGA nominee to not get an Oscar nod. In the last 10 years alone, only twice have the DGA and the Oscars nominated the same five. For 2012, only two of the DGA nominees were nominated for the Oscar. You can usually count on some discrepancy.
