He is great. But Ricky Gervais would be even better. Lawl. Though the Acadamy would never dare to let him host. Honesty is something not liked in Hollywood :P
I didn't know who he was but after watching 2020 Oscar Nominations came out and I start watching this guy. Man! He is real deal. The best host I even watched.
I was in junior high that year I still remember when I watched dances with the wolves on the big screen and watched it countless times on tv Most of these films then had a quality script quality acting, and now they became classic Sure someone says this about the Hollywood era of the 60 50 40s but the difference is 1991 was a modern year with modern technology and without the whole social media and reality tv everywhere madness Billy crystal to some boring but so much better than jimmy kimmel Brings memories specially seeing al Pacino at a younger age and the impressive Glenn glose These were the true A list stars of that time 😊
look how the Oscars today have turned into a Freak show compared to these... how sad!!! These were the days when it was classy and funny. Now all these emptied shell plastic Barbie dolls are nothing more than walking, talking marshmallow peeps.
+Kasino80 I agree with you. It's no more about celebrating the movies, it's celebrating how much money these clowns get for promoting some stupid product.
this video is as old as i am. and surprisingly nothing much has changed. america is still in war, hollywood studios are still in a coma, and billy crystal is still just as funny. :)
Back in the day when the competition to win an Oscar was hardcore, Everyone of those movies are top notch, they all should be Oscar winners! Be lucky to get even one decent oscar movie these days
Billy always seemed to luckily spoof the movie that ended up winning. He must have been tipped off, or had a really good sense of how the members think. He's a stand-up comedian so he probably knows how to read an audience and that's my guess. I really wish they'd bring him back. I really think some of the other hosts struggle.
20 years since Academy Awards Telecast No. 63 in 1991 - seems like it was yesterday! A big difference between the Shrine Auditorium in LA and Oscars' new home at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Wasn't the 63rd Academy Awards Telecast on ABC the telecast that had Charlie O'Donnell as the announcer? A lot of things have happened over a span of 20 years since the 63rd Annual Academy Awards, but these memories from the previous telecasts need to be preserved for its historical value.
The joke about Billy having lunch with "Julia Phillips" was a Hollywood in-joke about the very real fact Julia was a top time Hollywood producer of the 1970s and wrote a tell-all best selling book in 1991 about the culture of Hollywood surrounding it's drug abuse, casting couch activities etc. Many of the names she wrote in the book were people in the audience.
Billy Crystal, the greatest host ever! Bring him back....
You can't top Billy Crystal. He is and will always be the best in my opinion.
Brian Exley agree
Him and Whoopi Goldberg !
He is great. But Ricky Gervais would be even better. Lawl. Though the Acadamy would never dare to let him host. Honesty is something not liked in Hollywood :P
Brian Exley he’s a legend his comedy is spot on please bring him back to next years Oscars he was brilliant
Not close. Best was Bob Hope by a landslide
Billy is an amazing performer! Fearless on stage! His accent puts it all together with his witty mind and Broadway voice!
So brilliant. A walk down memory lane in 2022
Me too on 2022
Very clever stuff, done with style and humor.He is about 74 now, but maybe they could get him back one more time. He can save that train wreck
2023
I love you Billy....I've been watching all the old Billy openings ...there treasures....❤️😇
where?
@@danielprovost Here. Just look up Billy Crystal Openings
@@colleen4ever Nah it's because he said 'there' instead of 'they're'. My lame attempt at a joke fell shorter than a shoeless Billy Crystal.
The days when the Oscars was fun and witty.
They literally weren’t before Billy.
@@MrRufusRToyotaBob.Hope.
Lol you virgin
Billy Crystal is to my generation's Oscar host what Bob Hope was to the last generation.
Oh yeah!
Johnny Carson as well when I was growing up
Bob hope was boring. Corny.
Bob Hope wasn't our last generation. There was Johnny Carson before Billy and perhaps the greatest host of the Oscars there's ever been.
But who is this generations Billy Crystal?
I can't believe I still watch it in 2018. I forgot that the actors and actresses were real and natural back then...wow
This guy has a talent from out of this world !!!
wow what a difference. so elegantly done without being crass but forever classy
"This man killed everyone, so now he's home alone."
:DD
Billy Crystal is amazing! Can't wait for Oscar 2012 to watch him again.
BILLY is a stellar entertainer...Marvelous!!
oh the old days. I miss them. So innocent in the delivery, no politics, no hating, just good old fashioned funny entertainment.
Oh, with the invention of social media, some nut outthere would find a way to make that opening political, had it been done today.
No one can't top Billy crystal....best host ever
Come back one more time, Billy - please. The Oscars need you desperately. Sally Lou Th., 8/15/19
Yes yes YES!!!!
BILLY CRYSTAL IS THE BEST HOST “EVER”!!!
I agree 1000%!!!👍🏼
Awesome performer with great talent. Kudos, Billy!
I miss you Billy one of the best Oscar hosts ever!
+Debra M He should be made permanent Oscar host.
Yes, yes he should. What's the deal with JIMMY FRIGGING KIMMEL this year?!?! Does no one remember the disaster that was David Letterman?!
@@colleen4ever They clearly haven't learned their lesson...
I didn't know who he was but after watching 2020 Oscar Nominations came out and I start watching this guy. Man! He is real deal. The best host I even watched.
❤️Billy is the best. I never wanted to miss the opening from the Oscar’s specially when he was on.😀
Billy Crystal....the most underused, underestimated man in show business.....I wonder who he pissed off?
I bet he's turned down a lot of shit,
Well, if I starred in Parental Guidance, I would turn down a lot of stuff too.
Sous Chef 👩🍳👨🍳
He's a conservative and refused to slam politics....
Jinka1950 maybe not slam but he’d make jokes about the politics be world news throughout the year
I just watched this on 7-7-18 for the first time since it aired live and 27 years later I still remembered it was funny as hell.
So good to watch Billy. One of a kind. No agenda. So refreshing
So talented Billy crystal , he is amazing
Very!!!❤
This is a real hosting. Oscars needs this kind of show, not that crappy political censorship that it has become
AMEN!!
Ghost
Goodfellas
God Father III
Dances with Wolves
Awakenings
Now that’s what you call an Best Picture Oscar lineup.
yes except for Godfather 3 and Ghost lol
No Miller's Crossing.
@@purefoldnz3070 Dances With Wolves was trash... I prefer Godfather III over that crap ANY DAY.
@@ComandoPadentro ahahahaha Godfather 3 was a good comedy true.
@@purefoldnz3070 Ghost is a very good film, and Godfather 3 although not great as previous 2, solid trilogy
No other was as GREAT as the MC for the Academy Award shows than Billy Crystal! T
Best host! So glad you're back Billy!
Just saw Billy in Here Today. He’s amazing, as always!!
He is the Best
Bring hım back.
Save oscars
he was back for the next 2 years plus MANY more years after that and before hes one of the best oscar hosts ever
Wow! Dances with Wolves, Goodfellas, Ghost, The Godfather III. What a year!
MrConstantine02 amazing!!!!!!
Whatta year! Whatta host!!!
Misery too.
The best host everrrrrrr... its in our memory forever.❤
The one and only ... The Master Entertainer .. Billy Crystal.
Billy is the best!
Billy Crystal should just host the Oscars every year.
6:00 - 6:46 OMG He perfectly summarised The Godfather Trilogy in its Theme Music 🤣🤣🤣
This was a really excellent opening number. My favorite so far. The Godfather Part III was damn funny.
I'm so happy they are bringing Billy back this year, we certainly need something extra brilliant after last year's disasterous Franco and Hathaway!
I cracked up when I got to the part in the medley about GoodFellas.
Kathy Bates looks amazing, in so glad she won best actress that night for her role in Misery!! and Jodie Foster sitting in front of her! Wow
Jodie Foster looked hot as hell.
billy crystal is the best oscar host ever
I unironically like the billy crystal's oscar meledies
2:01 A Trump joke before Trump jokes became fashioned
@DooDooBumMan And wanting his money, of course.
Btw, "fashioned"? More like stale, frankly.
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@@photonotavailable7936 TDS.
Crystal is right up there with Hope and Carson.
i like how he leads up to the song, he does it everytime
Entrada epica. Jamas se repetira.
SO delightful what a great opening
BILLY CRYSTAL IS THE BEST HOST OF ALL TIME!!!!
I was in junior high that year I still remember when I watched dances with the wolves on the big screen and watched it countless times on tv
Most of these films then had a quality script quality acting, and now they became classic
Sure someone says this about the Hollywood era of the 60 50 40s but the difference is 1991 was a modern year with modern technology and without the whole social media and reality tv everywhere madness
Billy crystal to some boring but so much better than jimmy kimmel
Brings memories specially seeing al Pacino at a younger age and the impressive Glenn glose These were the true A list stars of that time 😊
Missed those good old oscar shows!
00:32 I love when Billy says: "sorry i'm late, i was having lunch with Julia Phillipps, and we were talking about youuuuuuu"
Billy Crystal won a special award for this medley, did he not?
look how the Oscars today have turned into a Freak show compared to these... how sad!!! These were the days when it was classy and funny. Now all these emptied shell plastic Barbie dolls are nothing more than walking, talking marshmallow peeps.
With ridiculous obvious product placement. Ellen's twitter thing her second time, was cringe worthy overly long.
+Kasino80 I agree with you. It's no more about celebrating the movies, it's celebrating how much money these clowns get for promoting some stupid product.
One of the reasons I will NOT be watching it this year. The other is...of course...Jimmy Frigging Kimmel!
BILLY such a gift
Eu adoro este cara. Ele reúne tudo que é bom.
this video is as old as i am. and surprisingly nothing much has changed. america is still in war, hollywood studios are still in a coma, and billy crystal is still just as funny. :)
This Is The Story about a Man named Corleone. He Killed Everyone So Now Hes Home Alone. XD
Back in the day when the competition to win an Oscar was hardcore, Everyone of those movies are top notch, they all should be Oscar winners! Be lucky to get even one decent oscar movie these days
The best of times!
4 Emmy's total. 2 for this one: writing and individual variety show performance.
BRILLIANTE!
Freakin genius.
Crystal is diamond 🙂.
The greatest host ever.
billy cristal the a grade best ever host no one ever better , if you agree give me a thumbs up
Watching in 2024. Billy's the GOAT. Great to see my love, Al Pacino, the best! :D
Billy always seemed to luckily spoof the movie that ended up winning. He must have been tipped off, or had a really good sense of how the members think. He's a stand-up comedian so he probably knows how to read an audience and that's my guess.
I really wish they'd bring him back. I really think some of the other hosts struggle.
20 years since Academy Awards Telecast No. 63 in 1991 - seems like it was yesterday! A big difference between the Shrine Auditorium in LA and Oscars' new home at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
Wasn't the 63rd Academy Awards Telecast on ABC the telecast that had Charlie O'Donnell as the announcer?
A lot of things have happened over a span of 20 years since the 63rd Annual Academy Awards, but these memories from the previous telecasts need to be preserved for its historical value.
Absolutely the best host
Billy is the best
The best of the best oscar host ever! Funnyy. Hope he will host 2020😊
Billy crystal said he was done hosting the Oscars. He said writing it is a pain in the ass.
This year’s Billy medley is my favorite.
A true master of his craft.
Billy was just absolutely the best ever
Oh man. Beat Oscar host in history. They don’t make em like that anymore.
that oscar songs always feels like something from a Mel Brooks film ;)
Just damn good.
all I see when I hear Billy crystal is Mike
"Not a very nice guy...shot Moe Green in the eye..."
fabulous best host ever
Talent!
Genius!
Best Oscar opening in my lifetime.
this year is great
Cranston should host the Oscars. He is hilarious.
I love his song about the Godfather, Awakenings, Dances with Wolves.....hilarious stuff
He's a savant (not an idiot savant) Just a plain old savant!
What a OG Donald Trump joke.
No-one could have imagined what would happen 26 years later. For that matter I don't think anyone could have imagined it 26 months ago.
Even then
What do ya have ta say now, Billy? Oh right, you probably wouldn;t say anything...cause you have class.
4:48 Annette Bening‼️😘 ...with that lovely gown from Bugsy ❤️
Billy gives his respect to Pacino. 5:38.
The joke about Billy having lunch with "Julia Phillips" was a Hollywood in-joke about the very real fact Julia was a top time Hollywood producer of the 1970s and wrote a tell-all best selling book in 1991 about the culture of Hollywood surrounding it's drug abuse, casting couch activities etc. Many of the names she wrote in the book were people in the audience.
Very charismatic. Im exfited fir these ones :)
Love Billy Crystal.
Billy is the best.
So excited that he's coming back!!!!!
Legend.
can he do a medley for the best picture nominees for this year?
Billy Crystal is to the Oscars what Johnny Carson was to Late Night!
Eats-With-His-Hands, Spits-When-He-Talks, and Cheats-On-His-Taxes are members of every family.
The best