Foreign guests who also performed during the ceremony included the Hong Kong duets Liu Chi-rong and Liu Ying-hong, and Chia Sze-le and Chen Chie-ling; Malaysia's Chik Soon Come and Rohana Talil; Japan's noted folk dancer Chiao Chiu Hsueh-lu; Indonesia's Grace Simon and Bob Tutupoli; Korea's Hsu Jen-hsi and Chin Cheng-zi; and Thailand's Meesak Nakaratana, Sakarin Poonyarit and Tipfularn Pinphiban.
許多報章雜誌提出改進的意見，供主辦單位做參考。一般認為，典禮的劇本清新亦見創意，但節奏稍慢，節目進行的時間過長，因此有人建議主辦單位考慮把「廣播」和「電視」分開舉行頒獎。晚會節目亦嫌不夠精彩，且「外國秀」所佔比例太大。