The Opening of the Academy Awards: 1982 Oscars 

I love how Johnny acknowledged Bob Hope at the end. They were both very funny and classy...may they both RIP.

I thought I was going to have a heart attack hearing the musical medley. Im emotionally awed by its depth!

Johnny Carson host was the best host ever.

Why can’t you put the full shows on from every year so we can all enjoy the memories, you get in to the show and it stops after 20min !

I've never seen this one, thanks so much Oscars for making it all possible!

6:37-9:16, Bill Conti conducting the Academy Awards orchestra in an overture of memorable film scores beginning with Gone With the Wind (a favorite of Ted Turner and Heather Noland) and ending with Rocky; that shows why Conti is the greatest Academy Awards musical director of all-time for over 3 decades, both on and off, from the 49th Oscar telecast in 1977 to the 80th Oscar telecast in 2008, the same year Conti retired. Conti has not served as musical director of the Academy Awards since now that he's in his 70s.

Diana Ross gown is insanely gorgeous 💃

Johnny Carson - always a class act.

I danced on this one. We did a number with John Schneider ( waltz from Ragtime) The costume awards section, a James Bond medley that Sheena Easton sang For Your Eyes Only, and a big Harry Warren medley with Gregory Hines and Debbie Allen. Loved dancing on the Oscars. Did a few of them in the 80'a

fay Kanin , here 65 years of age as if she had only 45 !!! What a life !!! RIP Fay !!!!!

Dear Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, Something has to be done to either bring back Bill Conti or his music to the Academy. This was the Academy's magic for the past 30 something years up until the 71st Academy Awards, when somehow we were only left with tidbits of his magic. I get it. He is probably retired. But his music, what I call "The Oscar Melodies" need to be returned. Please, you can do it. I know. Sincerely, Clayton

Fay Kanin gave a far more lively speech than most Academy Presidents before or after her.

They didn't pull them over then and say who are you wearing !!! It was about the star not the clothes!!!

Loved johnny carson he was great this was the good days

carson killed it.speedbumps wow....:)

Fantastic🎉. Made my day

Fay Kanin noted that these 1982 Oscars were seen in 71 countries around the world to 300 million people either live or on tape delay and was the first live broadcast to be closed-captioned; now, it's close to a billion viewers in well over 200 countries. Oh, and these were also the first Oscars for some new show that premiered months ago called “Entertainment Tonight”.

Hank Simms is the announcer.

Hank Simms announced for this and some other Academy Awards, while Charlie O'Donnell and John Harlan did so, too.

E.T. The best of the best .

*DIANA ROSS*!

I wonder if Paul McCartney stayed in town 2 more weeks to record his duet with Michael Jackson. That was the first song recorded for the Thriller album.

OK Roger Moore is MY James Bond, but handsomest man alive?

17:27 😭😭

Who is the trumpet soloist at 8:15? Rick Baptist? George Graham? Warren Luening? I've never been able to find an orchestra roster for 1982.

4:57 rip Doris 1925 -2016

Since the recession a decade ago Oscar night has become a thing of the past.

It might be too late now but Oscar screwed itself by not investing in a huge show. That's y it was the best!

What are the titles of the music pieces played by Bill Conti at the beginning ? Thanks. :)

At 3:08 the announcer says "BETTY GRABLE " THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE ! Ms GRABBLE died July 2, 1973 !

Sixty-three-years-laters.

jajajjajajaj yo naci ese dia ....

people had more patience but less toys

Uh...something is very not right here. This is the 1982 Oscars (for the films of 1981) and it shows Peter Finch among the arrivals. Peter Finch died in 1977. HELLO???

Compound media anyone?

When life was good

“I know a lot about your country, I have seen your movies”. What a horrible statement.

diana @ 4:46

oscar always best

In Eighty days.

I just watch the parts on want to see on You Tube. I don't watch it anymore. There aren't any great actors or movies anymore. It use to be an event now it's nothing. They will do away with this too. I miss those days they were wonderful.

2:48

6:38

I don’t understand why people say things like “Hollywood ain’t what it used to be” or “they don’t make them like they used to” and “Back when actors had class and respect” when compared with actors or just Hollywood as a whole. The difference between actors back then and actors now is how they dressed. Hollywood from the start was a horrible place! It was never classy sophisticated or without its share of scandal. At prime example of how bad it always was is Judy Garland. Don’t forget the “casting couch” that every director had in his office. There was murder, suicide, drugs, affairs, etc! Today is no worse than any other time in the history of Hollywood.

Did she really use the word diversity! LOL

Carson's monalogue begins at 13:00.

I use to make sure I had things done so I could watch but now I won't watch back in the day the actors and actress had class. Now no. The way they act now is shameful

La gente che grida come matta 😳🤪

5:37 she look like Farrah fawcett

Bill Conti ending with Rocky, ofc.

When movies weren’t decimated by the “woke”. Think of ALLLL the other movies made in the 80’s after 1982. What a decade it was. Glad I was a part of it. I won’t watch the Oscars if I was paid to. Especially after 2022. Smh…so sad.

The fake claps is so anoyng

Back when Things weren’t all political and racist.

That boring Johnny Carson.Boring, boring.Why they didn't had JoanRivers. ❤