Recalling the last host-less Oscars: The train wreck featuring Rob Lowe's duet with Snow White

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The 61st Academy Awards in 1989 is widely consdired the worst Oscars ever. "No, the lack of a host didn’t really have much to do with the show’s multitudinous failures," says Steve Pond, offering a cautionary tale on a potential host-less 91st Academy Awards. "And no, this year’s producer, Donna Gigliotti, and co-producer and director, Glenn Weiss, aren’t likely to make the kind of mistakes that Allan Carr made back then. But looking at that show, it’s hard not to think that a steady hand at the helm would have helped."