Oscars: Lance Reddick, Treat Williams, Terence Davis Omitted From In Memoriam Segment

Abid Rahman
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The In Memoriam segment of the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday night paid a moving tribute to several stars and movie industry folk who have died over the last year — but, as ever, social media was quick to point out the more glaring omissions.

During the telecast, the In Memoriam segment featured Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and his son Matteo performing a moving rendition of “Con te partirò” as pictures of talent who have died flashed on the stage behind them. The segment opened with a tribute to the late Russian political activist Alexei Navalny, who died last month in prison in controversial circumstances.

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“You’re not allowed to give up,” Navalny says in a clip from the film Navalny, which won best documentary feature at the 2023 Academy Awards. “If they decide to kill me, it means we are incredibly strong.”

The segment also featured brief photo tributes to the likes of Matthew Perry, Chita Rivera, Ryan O’Neal, Tina Turner, Michael Gambon, Alan Arkin, Andre Braugher, Richard Lewis, Lee Sun-Kyun and Carl Weathers.

However, actors Lance Reddick, Treat Williams, Ron Cephas Jones, Suzanne Somers, Ray Stevenson, and Burt Young, legendary screenwriter and producer Norman Lear, and British filmmaker Terence Davies were not in the main section and were instead added to a larger list at the end of the segment.

Users on social media were critical of so many big names being relegated to the list, moreover as the list was hard to read on the screen and was only featured momentarily.

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