Farrah Fawcett, Bea Arthur Snubbed At Oscar “In Memoriam” Tribute. Why?

[metta]

Farrah Fawcett, Bea Arthur Snubbed At Oscar “In Memoriam” Tribute. Why?
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[Joshua_me]

Somebody screwed up BIG time !

I mean, I know the movie version of "Mame" was bad, but it wasn't THAT bad...

Leaving out Farrah is terrible enough, but leaving out someone as amazing and special as Bea is just criminal...

 

[StationToStation]

Bea and Farrah excluded that's just criminal!!!

I teared a bit when I saw Brittany Murphy.

Clueless hit the screens when I was a sophomore in high school, and I was obsessed with watching it on my VCR. I felt like I grew up with Brit.

Those tributes remind us that life is fragile . . .yet impacting.

 

[Beachguyj]

That just plain SUCKS, I've notice that most were writers, and Producers, and very little actors, I'm sure there were more that died, then what they showed.

And agents that no one knows. It was pretty stupid to leave them out.

 

[StationToStation]

Here's a stupid answer they gave.

Another big question revolved around Farrah Fawcett's non-appearance in the "In Memoriam" tribute. The easy answer: There wasn't room. The academy limits the tribute to 30 names, and producers decided Fawcett primarily contributed to television. Of course, this doesn't explain why Michael Jackson was featured and not Fawcett. Leslie Unger, a spokesperson for the academy, explained, "Every year it's an unfortunate reality that we can't include everybody."

It still SUCKS!!

That's an excuse not a reason!!!

 

[Under-taken]

I teared when they showed Brittany Murphy :/

 

[floorrunner]

I grew up watching Farrah and Bea Arthur. Fortunately they remembered them at the emmy awards, but the oscars have a lot of making up to do.

 

[Sausy]

There was enough room to for the wonderfully creative dance interpretation of the best scores.And those testimonials to each best actor and actress

I thought the list of those remembered who passed in the last year was missing quite a few people.Well,the Academy has always been known for their abundant common sense

The final indignity was that the best picture was named by Tom Hanks out of the blue,without going through that list of ten nominated pictures(another really winning idea by the Academy)

There was bad time management....there's always enough time to give a dignified,sensitive final salute to those passed whose contributions small or great will be missed and always appreciated.

 

[NedNickerson]

I think Turner Classic Movies always offers THE BEST tributes to actors who have passed away during the year.

Here's the tribute for 2009.
Farrah and Bea are among those remembered:

 

[grantt]

Pitiful snubbs yet notice that Michael Jackson got in.

 

[braex27]

The academy limits the tribute to 30 names, and producers decided Fawcett primarily contributed to television. Leslie Unger, a spokesperson for the academy, explained, "Every year it's an unfortunate reality that we can't include everybody."

Not even Farrah Fawcett, who was herself a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences?????????

Farrah Fawcett – Actors Branch

That is a disgraceful comment from the Academy! So it's not oversight. It is not an error. It was a deliberate decision, made by some bozo (or committee of bozos). How disgusting.

 

[Ontariobear]

Didn't watch but I would consider Bea and Farrah TV stars far more than movie stars so the Emmy awards would tribute them which might explain why career-long technical and behind the scenes movie people were honoured instead?

 

[Joshua_me]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif][FONT=Verdana,Sans-Serif]Email this Story[/FONT]Mar 9, 9:28 PM (ET)

By SANDY COHEN

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
It was a difficult decision for the committee that assembles the segment to omit Fawcett, said Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive director Bruce Davis, who added that he's not surprised some fans and family members are upset.

Fawcett's family issued a statement through a publicist Tuesday saying they were "deeply saddened" and "bereft with this exclusion of such an international icon who inspired so many for so many reasons."

Davis said the academy committee debated about including Fawcett and Gene Barry, a longtime TV actor who died in December at age 90, in the memorial segment but ultimately omitted both.
Davis and his colleagues thought that while the two actors appeared in movies, they were better known for their "remarkable television work" and would be more appropriately honored by the television academy at the Emmy Awards.

The group "was kind of figuring that probably the Farrah Fawcett and Gene Barry omissions would be the ones we'd get the most comments on," he said. He acknowledged that he "did get one letter about Miss Fawcett."
The academy director said "an unusual number of extremely distinguished screenwriters" died this year, and the academy tried to honor many of them in the short memorial segment.

"In every category, you're going to miss some wonderful people," said Davis, who has helped assemble Oscar's In Memoriam montage since it began in 1993.

When asked why Michael Jackson was included when actors were left out, Davis explained that Jackson had appeared in a popular theatrical film recently. Fawcett and Jackson both died on June 25.
"Think of all the blogging we would have gotten if we had left him out!" he said.
Still, he said he understands that the Fawcett and Barry omissions sting.
"There's nothing you can say to people, particularly to family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all," Davis said. "They tend to be surprised and hurt, and we understand that and we're sorry for it."
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On the Net: Academy Awards, http://www.oscars.org


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[NineOfClubs]

I thought the whole broadcast was poor, not up to standards set in the past.

It's pathetic that they chose to ignore two recently passed legends.

The memorial to those who have died in the last year, well for me, is a high point of the Oscars.

 

[NVRMOR]

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By SANDY COHEN

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
It was a difficult decision for the committee that assembles the segment to omit Fawcett, said Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive director Bruce Davis, who added that he's not surprised some fans and family members are upset.

Fawcett's family issued a statement through a publicist Tuesday saying they were "deeply saddened" and "bereft with this exclusion of such an international icon who inspired so many for so many reasons."

Davis said the academy committee debated about including Fawcett and Gene Barry, a longtime TV actor who died in December at age 90, in the memorial segment but ultimately omitted both.
Davis and his colleagues thought that while the two actors appeared in movies, they were better known for their "remarkable television work" and would be more appropriately honored by the television academy at the Emmy Awards.

The group "was kind of figuring that probably the Farrah Fawcett and Gene Barry omissions would be the ones we'd get the most comments on," he said. He acknowledged that he "did get one letter about Miss Fawcett."
The academy director said "an unusual number of extremely distinguished screenwriters" died this year, and the academy tried to honor many of them in the short memorial segment.

"In every category, you're going to miss some wonderful people," said Davis, who has helped assemble Oscar's In Memoriam montage since it began in 1993.

When asked why Michael Jackson was included when actors were left out, Davis explained that Jackson had appeared in a popular theatrical film recently. Fawcett and Jackson both died on June 25.
"Think of all the blogging we would have gotten if we had left him out!" he said.
Still, he said he understands that the Fawcett and Barry omissions sting.
"There's nothing you can say to people, particularly to family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all," Davis said. "They tend to be surprised and hurt, and we understand that and we're sorry for it."
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On the Net: Academy Awards, http://www.oscars.org


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...oh, and by the way, fuck Bea Arthur.

I loved her in Mame.

Gene Barry?? I googled him and still don't know him...but for god's sake...throw these people a bone. They (even Gene Barry) were seen weekly more than most people in movies. It was an Oscar tribute for gawds sake, not a coronation

 

[braex27]

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif][FONT=Verdana,Sans-Serif]Email this Story[/FONT]Mar 9, 9:28 PM (ET)

By SANDY COHEN

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
It was a difficult decision for the committee that assembles the segment to omit Fawcett, said Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive director Bruce Davis, who added that he's not surprised some fans and family members are upset.

Fawcett's family issued a statement through a publicist Tuesday saying they were "deeply saddened" and "bereft with this exclusion of such an international icon who inspired so many for so many reasons."

Davis said the academy committee debated about including Fawcett and Gene Barry, a longtime TV actor who died in December at age 90, in the memorial segment but ultimately omitted both.
Davis and his colleagues thought that while the two actors appeared in movies, they were better known for their "remarkable television work" and would be more appropriately honored by the television academy at the Emmy Awards.

The group "was kind of figuring that probably the Farrah Fawcett and Gene Barry omissions would be the ones we'd get the most comments on," he said. He acknowledged that he "did get one letter about Miss Fawcett."
The academy director said "an unusual number of extremely distinguished screenwriters" died this year, and the academy tried to honor many of them in the short memorial segment.

"In every category, you're going to miss some wonderful people," said Davis, who has helped assemble Oscar's In Memoriam montage since it began in 1993.

When asked why Michael Jackson was included when actors were left out, Davis explained that Jackson had appeared in a popular theatrical film recently. Fawcett and Jackson both died on June 25.
"Think of all the blogging we would have gotten if we had left him out!" he said.
Still, he said he understands that the Fawcett and Barry omissions sting.
"There's nothing you can say to people, particularly to family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all," Davis said. "They tend to be surprised and hurt, and we understand that and we're sorry for it."
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On the Net: Academy Awards, http://www.oscars.org


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Without any disrespect to Michael Jackson, but I would like to know what popular theatrical film he appeared in recently?

I checked IMDB, and it noted him as being in "Miss Cast Away" in 2004 and "Men in Black II" in 2002. Is that what they're referring to?

Personally, I think the Academy is handling this backlash completely the wrong way.

 

[CaptainJohn]

People still watch the oscars?

 

[Joshua_me]

Without any disrespect to Michael Jackson, but I would like to know what popular theatrical film he appeared in recently?

I think the "brain trust" at the academy was counting "This is It", his final film of concert rehearsals as a theatrical "film".

Also left out were Ricardo Moltebon (sp) who made 38 films in his lifetime and Zelda Rubenstien from "Poltergiest".

 

[bike10]

When I was kid always looked forward to seeing the Oscars seeing who would be honored. Over the years this show has gone done hill and this year one word to decribe the show BORNING.

 

[braex27]

They probably meant his concert rehersal movie braex.

I think the "brain trust" at the academy was counting "This is It", his final film of concert rehearsals as a theatrical "film".

Also left out were Ricardo Moltebon (sp) who made 38 films in his lifetime and Zelda Rubenstien from "Poltergiest".

Oh, I see, I see.