In Memoriam

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The Academy posted a 100+ person slide show on their website that includes just about anyone you could gripe was left off the In Memoriam...

http://oscar.go.com/photos/85th/show/in ... rman-alden
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mlrg wrote:Martin Richards, who won best picture for Chicago, was also left out from the In Memorian Segment

Funny that Zadan and Meron (producers of the oscar telecast) were the executive producers of Chicago :twisted:
Chicago was Marty Richards' only film credit in the past 30 years. I'm sure he'll be in the Tonys In Memoriam; he was a far bigger presence there. (He was a very nice man, by the way -- we knew him from when Kathi did Grand Hotel)
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MovieWes wrote:I don't understand Adam Yauch's inclusion. I know he was one of the big deaths of last year, but I would expect to see him during the Grammys 'In Memoriam' segment more than I would the Oscars. I only know him as one of the members of the Beastie Boys, not for whatever work he did in film.
He's one of the founders of Oscilloscope, an independent film company and distributor (credits include The Messenger and We Need to Talk About Kevin). I was surprised by his inclusion but his contribution to film is actually more significant than Aaliyah, Tupac Shakur, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston who were all included in past In Memoriams.
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Martin Richards, who won best picture for Chicago, was also left out from the In Memorian Segment

Funny that Zadan and Meron (producers of the oscar telecast) were the executive producers of Chicago :twisted:
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I don't understand Adam Yauch's inclusion. I know he was one of the big deaths of last year, but I would expect to see him during the Grammys 'In Memoriam' segment more than I would the Oscars. I only know him as one of the members of the Beastie Boys, not for whatever work he did in film.
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Also Ann Rutherford.
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Actually two more oversights come to mind.

Joyce Redman. Surely two Oscar nominations count for something, even if the where nearly half a century ago?

Oshima Nagisa. The last of the legendary film directors from the golden years of Japanese cinema.
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anonymous1980 wrote:I love that Andrew Sarris and Chris Marker made the cut.
I'll second Chris Marker and very pleased to see Erland Josephson remembered.

I think Andy Griffith was a terrible oversight and though she was only a minor performer, Susan Tyrell.
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I love that Andrew Sarris and Chris Marker made the cut.
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No. That's what you get when you grow up in Finland. I have seen the film Odd Couple, and I knew that there was a TV series, but I have never seen a single episode. I don't think I have ever heard of Quincy before.
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You've never heard of Jack Klugman before? TV's The Odd Couple...Quincy?
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I have never even heard of Klugman before. Is it possible that Klugman was an Academy member while Griffith was not?
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Heksagon wrote:I suppose they figured that Griffith was mainly a television actor.
But...A Face in the Crowd alone is a pretty major contribution.
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So was Klugman...
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I suppose they figured that Griffith was mainly a television actor.
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