Oscar organizers tried something unprecedented¹ in the awards' 83-year history on Sunday -- entrusting² a young, attractive pair of Hollywood stars to host the film industry's highest honors.

奥斯卡组织者们周日尝试了一种在奥斯卡83年历史中从未有过的方式——让一对年轻迷人的好莱坞影星来主持这个电影业最高荣誉的颁奖典礼。

Oscar organizers tried something unprecedented in the awards‘ 83-year history on Sunday
And the two newly minted（刚完成的） masters of ceremony, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, wasted no time acknowledging their youth, and the notion that their presence might help lure³（诱惑，引诱） a generation of television viewers who have increasingly tuned⁴ out the Oscars in recent years.

"Anne," I must say, you look so beautiful and so hip," Franco, 32, himself a nominee⁵ as best actor, deadpanned as the two walked on stage to open the show.

Early in the show, presenter⁶ Justin Timberlake, an actor-singer popular with the young-adult crowd, appeared to use a smart-phone computer app to illuminate⁷（阐明，说明） a "Shrek" backdrop to introduce awards for animated⁸ films.

Two films wildly popular with young moviegoers this past year, "Twilight⁹" sequel "Eclipse" and "Harry¹⁰ Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," figured prominently（显著地） in a pre-taped comic lip-syncing sequence.

But the show hardly turned its back on Hollywood of yesteryear. Kirk Douglas, 94, his speech badly slurred¹¹ from a stroke 15 years ago, shuffled¹² on stage with a cane¹³ to present the first acting¹⁴ award, the Oscar for best supporting actress, which went to Melissa Leo for "The Fighter."

Douglas, himself, alluded¹⁵ to the Oscar generation gap in complimenting（恭维，称赞） Hathaway on her looks.

"She's gorgeous," he said as the young actress blew him kisses. "Where were you when I was making pictures?"

A short time later, the night's Oscar winner for best original screenplay, David Seidler, 73, for "The King's Speech," proclaimed in his acceptance speech that he was the oldest person ever to claim that award.

The program frequently conjured¹⁶ up（想起） images and music from Oscar-winning film blockbusters of yore, from "Gone with the Wind" to "Star Wars" and "Titanic¹⁷."

The tension between young and old was orchestrated by producers, who have said they sought to reconnect movie fans with Hollywood history while giving the show a contemporary feel that would attract viewers in the key 18- to- 49-year-old ratings demographic prized by advertisers.