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In Memoriam: Oscars' winners and nominees

February 24, 2009 |  7:20 am

Among the Oscar winners and nominees who died between Feb. 1, 2008, and Jan. 31, 2009, and were honored in the fast-paced "In Memoriam" segment of Sunday night's Oscars were:

Claude Berri: live action short winner, "Le Poulet" (1962); producing nominee, "Tess" (1979)

Michael Crichton: scientific and technical award [certificate] (1994)

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Jules Dassin: directing and original screenplay nominee, "Never on Sunday" (1963)

Nina Foch: supporting actress nominee, "Executive Suite" (1954)

Isaac Hayes: song winner and score nominee, "Shaft" (1971)

Charlton Heston: lead actor winner, "Ben-Hur" (1959); Hersholt humanitarian award (1977)

Charles H. Joffe: producing winner, "Annie Hall" (1977)

Abby Mann: adapted screenplay winner, "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961); adapted screenplay nominee, "Ship of Fools" (1965)

Anthony Minghella: directing winner and adapted screenplay nominee, "The English Patient" (1996); adapted screenplay nominee, "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999); producing nominee, "The Reader" (2008)

Robert Mulligan: directing nominee, "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962)

Paul Newman: honorary Oscar (1985); lead actor winner, "The Color of Money" (1986); Hersholt humanitarian award (1993); lead actor nominee, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958), "The Hustler" (1961), "Hud" (1963), "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), "Absence of Malice" (1981), "The Verdict" (1982), "Nobody's Fool" (1994); producing nominee, "Rachel, Rachel" (1968); supporting actor nominee, "Road to Perdition" (2002)

Harold Pinter: adapted screenplay nominee, "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981), "Betrayal" (1983).

Sydney Pollock: directing and producing winner, "Out of Africa" (1985); directing nominee, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969), "Tootsie" (1982); producing nominee, "Tootsie", "Michael Clayton" (2007), "The Reader" (2008)

Leonard Rosenman: adapted score winner, "Barry Lyndon"(1975), "Bound for Glory" (1976); original score nominee, "Cross Creek" (1983), "Star Trek IV" (1986)

Roy Scheider: supporting actor nominee, "The French Connection" (1971); lead actor nominee, "All That Jazz" (1979)

Paul Scofield: lead actor winner, "A Man for All Seasons" (1966); supporting actor nominee, "Quiz Show" (1994)

Burton Stone: John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation (1996)

David Watkin: cinematography winner, "Out of Africa" (1985)

James Whitmore: supporting actor nominee, "Battleground" (1949); lead actor nominee, "Give 'em Hell Harry" (1975)

Richard Widmark: supporting actor nominee, "Kiss of Death" (1947)

Stan Winston: makeup and visual effects winner, "Terminator 2" (1991); visual effects winner, "Jurassic Park" (1993); makeup nominee, "Heartbeeps" (1982), "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), "Batman Returns" (1992); visual effects nominee, "Predator" (1987), "The Lost World" (1997), "A.I." (2001).

Photos: Buena Vista, MGM

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Will, I completely agree with you. This should be a scandal! The Academy owes Kon's family an apology. The clips were presented like a drunk driver hitting flying billboards. And that is a long list of omissions.

congratulaion all the winner .i miss jjlo in the grammys. i hope in the future jlo will win couples she deserve.iam so glad for the man in white suit he is excelent actor iam glad see you again and look good.the girl with gio armani dress grey silver for me number 1 simple beautiful.congratuliation to grammy organization.every one have a wonderful day.thanks you

How could they forget to include silent screen Legend Anita Page (1910-2008) In Memoriam tribute?
Not only she was one of the biggest stars of the 20s-30s, but she was also the last living attendee of the very first Academy Awards in 1929 and the stat of The Broadway Melody (1929) - the first sound film to win Oscar Best Picture.
Outrages omissions: Mel Ferrer, Eartha Kitt, Beverly Garland, Edie Adams, Ann Savage, George Carlin, Robert Prosky, Patrick MacGoohan, Estelle Getty and Harvey Korman - and that only from acting branch. They even left out Don LaFontaine and he was the announcer of The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007)!
Nothing against Queen Latifah, I felt she was singing from her heart, but the cinematography was horrible. How I supposed to be moved when I couldn't see a thing with the camera kept moving so fast that I couldn't see the names of who were remembered? Whoever was in charge - shame on you! If can’t get it right just borrow the clip from TCM.
Plus when Japanese film director Ichikawa Kon was mentioned, they were showing a video of an actor Mikuni Rentaro, who is alive.



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