Only here for glamorous Diana and handsome Michael....

Michael was drop dead gorgeous. Beautiful to look at whooo!

Diana Ross and Michael Jackson look fire together real talk.🔥🔥🔥💥

Yes,handsome Michael Jackson!

Diana and Michae! Sheesh, Michael was drop dead gorgeous.

This is fabulous! They're moving right along with one announcer and it's still glamorous! Now this looked like a ton of fun of fun! The Academy needs to go back to THIS and maybe people would tune in again.

When are The Academy Awards going to show these shows from years gone by in full, people around the world want to see these. Come on Oscar !!

Most of the arriving actors looked great but then looking good is their trade actually. Michael Jackson was quite handsome when he was still natural and always very talented. I enjoy seeing how young everyone looked looking back nearly 40 years...amazing

Only came here to see MJ and Diana Ross... :) power couple...

God Michael your smile makes me swoon...

Sigourney Weaver, Dolly Parton, Goldie Hawn and Ellen Burstyn looked phenomenal that night

1:49 Handsome Michael Jackson ❤

Wonderful '80's!

I see Michael, I click

Mickael Jackson and Diana Ross -33 simply the best D

MJ and DR look great together ❤️

I remember watching this. It was very moving.

Michael Jackson and Diana Ross just outshine everybody in this clip lol. I guess that's why they're the thumbnail pic. That pic of them is probably one of the most famous of all the pics either of them have taken. It was really everywhere at one point. Music royalty at their best.

Little did they know that he would (just a couple years later) go on to become a world wide sensation and musical phenomenon and that his star power and shine would eclipse everyone currently attending this award ceremony😄

handsome Michael Jackson

Johnny Carson was a great host for this event!

Ms. Weaver was & is so glorious & talented!

Only watch for Michael and Diana They are cute together

The event which Johnny Carson was referring to which caused a 24 hour delay to the ceremony was the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Before then, the Oscars had only ever been postponed on two occasions: After the LA flooding in 1938; and after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in 1968. The fourth and most recent postponement was the decision by the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network to postpone the 2021 ceremony from February 28th 2021 to the 25th of April 2021.

I just died for handsome Michael Jackson ...

The voice-over announcer was the great Hank Simms, best known for countless movie trailers and narrating most of the Quinn Martin TV dramas. He was the announcer of the Oscar telecast for 26 years, a record that will never be equalled. Mr. Simms passed away in August 2013 in Hot Springs, Arkansas at the age of 90.

"Ronald Reagan?! The Actor?!" -Doc Brown

Came here for handsome Michael Jackson

Once upon a time, kids, Hollywood actors and actresses were revered as national treasures.

It’s the classic elegance for me ✨😍

Damn Dolly it should be illegal to look that good!

You'll never see talent and a screaming crowd like this ever...even after covid

Michael was so gorgeous 💜

The credits of the names just fly by! You can't even read them! LOL

Oh makes me sad seeing Michael here; young, handsome and talented (and charismatic). I wonder what he would have thought if someone had showed him a picture of what he was to become back in 1981? I don't think anyone would have believed it. Fame didn't do him any favours at all.

I don't know who did the voice over announcer duties for the 53rd Annual Academy Awards but he took his time and did a great job. It's not who is the host of an Academy Awards telecast or the presenters handing out the individual Oscars but it is the announcer that sets the stage for the overall telecast. After all, an Oscar announcer's voice is heard in millions of homes not only across Florida, but across America and the rest of the world.

Just look at Dolly, just look! GEEZ, she looks fabulous!!!!!

I see Michael i click .. simple

I'm here cause... You know.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The days of presidential respect is over

RIP Johnny Carson.

Arkin aged 50 yrs from 81 to 88, when he did Glengarry. He looks young here, looked about 70 in Glengarry.

still so amazing

I love you handsome Michael Jackson!

Skip to 1:44 to see MJ and Diana Ross :)

the day when MJ met brook shields 😍😍

OMG 😍 Goldie Hawn at 02:13 soooooo beautiful😘

2:23 RIP Mary Tyler Moore.

LORETTA LYNN the QUEEN!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!

Keep uploading these. Maybe full ceremonies?

Watching this make me feel old lol

michael was just in the music world as an adult then & he was invited

Please download the full shows of 70s 80s and 90s

I wonder how different life would have been for MJ if he had managed to fall OUT of love with his precious Diana. I know he saw her as the most sexy, beautiful, wonderful thing ever, but she's the one who took him to hell and back trying to marry her, Although she's also his inspiration for some of his most beautiful songs....

1:45 Diana & Michael

I came to this world a few years later

Wish they had the Oscar’s here again!

tomorrow marks 35 years since this was first broAdcast originally they were to be shown on the night before but Diego

In This Clip, From 0:00 To 4:54, It Was "The 53rd Annual Academy Awards" Video Open From Tuesday Night, March 31, 1981.

I wonder if Diana Scarwid's outfit inspired Prince, who wore the same thing a few years later when he won an Oscar for the Purple Rain soundtrack.

Who is the guy on Diana's right when they get out of the car? They're so beautiful.

michael sei tu la stella .

To show how we feel 😘

Life was so totally different back then. This was 9 years before I was born.

Billy Dee Williams does not age

George Cukor was still alive? Wow!! Legendary director.

The fake crowd screaming is annoying

1:29 looks like Khloe k😂

It was a better time.

That's probably the last time anyone ever referred to Michael Jackson as "handsome."

The show had to be postponed by 24 hours because everyone was distracted to see if the president would survive an assassination attempt. Who knows why John Hinckley Jr. chose Oscar day (or whether he understood that's what it was) to try to assassinate the first movie star president. And note the odd connection to the movies: Hinckley was inspired by Taxi Driver, Scorsese's Oscar-nominated film from 1976, which led him to obsess about Jodie Foster and to seek to "save" her just as the character played by Robert De Niro saved the teenage prostitute she played from her pimp. This must have been the strangest incident of Oscar history next to the Streaker in the '74 ceremony or the Sacheen Littlefeather appearance in 1973. And just as coincidental, the star of Taxi Driver went on to win Best Actor that night for his role in Raging Bull, another Scorsese film.

Ufff l born on 1989 means l can to this world a few years later

1:15 Sigourney the woman you are 😍

UPLOAD OPENING OF 1988 OSCARS! CHERRRR!

Its amazing he said "as a former member of the Academy." He was the President of the Screen Actors Guild for eight terms! The current President brags about accomplishments he hasn't even achieved! How is it that in less than 25 years America went from its best President to its worst? America, you got some s'plainin' to do!

loretta is BEAUTIFUL!

came here after same bed different dreams

siguoranvy weaver is still banging

Who are those people?

Hank Simms is the announcer.

me tooo....

The speech was taped before the assassination attempt.

1981-2018

John Carson? JOHN CARSON?!?

4:25 John Carson? lol Is that his buddy?

Did they just call him "John Carson?"

President Reagan was shot the day before this.............delaying the ceremony............I was 10...........where does the time go?

what happens the day before? i don´t know about that.

Reagan looked so young at age 70, he looks like he's 50 years old

Who the heck is John Carson? oooooooo

Why does the crowd sound like the Beatles are on stage??

Who's the doofus with Goldie Hawn?

Hank Simms announcer

massa muito massa esse cara

Co stars of the Wiz? They were the stars! Tf!!

Wow, has the role of the announcer changed...

Michael was so good looking WTF happened to him

i bet all these people would fail a urinalysis. lol

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