With the writer's strike, I'm actually surprised they didn't do that tribute up a little more, since it was one of those canned video segments that was part of a writer-less "Plan B." But then again, it's tough to make producers and agents glitzy...
Roy died in February. The cut-off for the mentions is January. He'll be on the death list on the 81st Academy Awards. The real question, and one that there has been much controversy over is why the young actor Brad Renfro wasn't listed.
This next part taken verbatim from Wikipedia: Also among those omitted was costume designer Marit Allen, who was among the year's nominees for her work on La Vie en Rose. Ulrich Mühe, the star of the German film The Lives of Others (which won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2006) was not mentioned, and also excluded were the French mime artist Marcel Marceau and Edward Yang, the Cannes-fêted Taiwanese director acclaimed for humane films including Yi Yi and A Brighter Summer Day.[40] Also left out was Maila Nurmi (aka "Vampira"), who starred in such films as The Beat Generation, I Woke Up Early The Day I Died and the infamous cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Hey Levito - saw your post to Cyrus (I was posting a question too). Roy will be in next year's Oscar memoriam because he died after February 1. The show builds it's tribute from Feb. 1- January 31.
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This next part taken verbatim from Wikipedia: Also among those omitted was costume designer Marit Allen, who was among the year's nominees for her work on La Vie en Rose. Ulrich Mühe, the star of the German film The Lives of Others (which won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2006) was not mentioned, and also excluded were the French mime artist Marcel Marceau and Edward Yang, the Cannes-fêted Taiwanese director acclaimed for humane films including Yi Yi and A Brighter Summer Day.[40] Also left out was Maila Nurmi (aka "Vampira"), who starred in such films as The Beat Generation, I Woke Up Early The Day I Died and the infamous cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space.
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