Michelle Trachtenberg, Alain Delon & Tony Roberts Excluded From Oscars In Memoriam Montage – Deadline
By Dade Hayes Business Editor
While Gene Hackman and Quincy Jones received stand-alone memorial tributes during Sunday’s Oscars telecast, several other notables did not appear in the show’s annual “in memoriam” segment.
Michelle Trachtenberg, who died suddenly last week at age 39, was one prominent name not included, to the dismay of many social media users. While perhaps best-known for work on TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she also appeared in a number of films including Harriet the Spy, EuroTrip and Ice Princess.
Others excluded from the montage included British actress Olivia Hussey. She won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe for playing the female lead in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film version of Romeo & Juliet and later turned up in Black Christmas and Death on the Nile.
Hussey and her then-young co-star Leonard Whiting sued Paramount Pictures in 2023, alleging they suffered physical and mental pain as well as “extreme and severe mental anguish and emotional distress” during production. Whiting was 16 when the film was made and Hussey was 15. The suit was eventually dismissed.
Airplane! co-director Jim Abrahams, a collaborator with Jerry and David Zucker, as well as Alain Delon were others not cited in the tribute. A giant of 20th century French cinema, Delon gained fame as an actor but also had notable accomplishments as a singer, producer, businessman and screenwriter.
Tony Todd, an actor, director and producer known for portraying the Candyman in the 1992 horror film of the same name, also did not appear in the montage. Three prominent actors were also omitted: Marisa Paredes, Tony Roberts and Linda Lavin.
George Armitage, director of films including Miami Blues and Grosse Point Blank, also did not appear in the in memoriam sequence.
Unlike past Oscar shows, whose in memoriam tributes featured prominent singers or orchestrations, this year’s show had a more somber tone and staging, featuring a chorus in shadow singing “Lacrimosa” from Mozart’s Requiem in D minor. While the music has a place in Hollywood lore after being dramatized in the Oscar Best Picture-winning 1984 film Amadeus, the choice to deploy it Sunday drew some raised eyebrows on social media. In a circular frame at the center of the screen, still images and footage of the deceased played over the swelling, mournful music in a static shot anchoring the four-and-a-half-minute segment, which was capped off by a final photograph of Hackman.Get our Breaking News Alerts and Keep your inbox happy.Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters
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