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In Memoriam Tribute

posted 19 years ago by eddy-28
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This is the hardest Memorial Tribute that I have tried to find research on and which artists were featured at the 71st Annual Academy Awards ceremony. I know this list is at least a good 95% accurate.

In Memoriam

Presented by Annette Bening

Norman Fell
E.G. Marshall
Jeanette Nolan
Alan J. Pakula (director)
Jerome Robbins (choreographer)
Dane Clark
Dick O'Neill
Valerie Hobson
Linwood Dunn (special effects artist)
Freddie Young (cinematographer)
John Derek
Richard Kiley
Maureen O'Sullivan
Phil Hartman
Huntz Hall
Esther Rolle
Binnie Barnes
Peggy Cass
James Goodman (screenwriter)
Jeffrey Moss (composer)
Akira Kurasawa (director)
Susan Strasberg
Alice Faye
Robert Young
Roddy McDowell

* A special note: Oscar winning actor and singer Frank Sinatra recieved a special Memorial Tribute, as did Western Stars Roy Rogers and Gene Autry whom also died in 1998.

[–] kathco 18 years ago

I don't suppose you know what the music was? Heheh. Hi Eddy-28, you seem to be the oracle of Oscar music, so I'm going to every Oscar board to find out what the music clips used were!

K

PS I wanted to check your list of people against mine, but when I opened my document I discovered I never typed it out, only WROTE it out, and that darn piece of paper is hanging around at my parents house together with my tape of the year...oh well.

Never judge things by their appearance. Even carpet bags. I'm sure I never do.

[–] eddy-28 18 years ago

LOL, Yeah I don't know the music, but then again I never actually saw this 71st Oscar Show. But I did read about it and I read the brief summary of those that were supposedly featured, so I tried my best making it as accurate as possible. I know a few that were included, but not all and I heard that Frank Sinatra was given a 'special' memorial as did Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, all of whom died in 1998.

[–] kathco 18 years ago

Next time I go to my parents I will type out the list from that year and post it for you. If I can find here I scribbled it down! Heehee! I must admit i don't recal the Autry/Rogers tributes, I wonder if my friend who taped it cut it out because she didn't like them? It was only for the 72nd Oscars that I started taping them myself. I do remember the Sinatra one, but because it's one of the years I only got from her recently, I could be forgetting about the cowboy tribute!

Kath

Never judge things by their appearance. Even carpet bags. I'm sure I never do.

[–] eddy-28 18 years ago

Actually Frank Sinatra was the only 'real' major star that died in 1998, as I've never officially seen the 71st Oscar show, but the actors they did feature like Norman Fell, E.G. Marshall, Susan Strasberg, Richard Kiley, Robert Young are all basically familiar names and faces to films, but were never majorly famous. I think this was the main year that the Academy featured these kinds of names.

As for Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, the two famous singing cowboys, I heard that this particular year, Val Kilmer presented a 'special' montage to the now dead western genre of Hollywood and in doing so, they showed clips of Roy and Gene featured in this montage.

[–] kathco 18 years ago

That actually sounds vaguely familiar...I will check it out sometime. Meanwhile I went and got the lists I'd made of the In Memoriams - I only wrote down from the 68th (1995) to the 72nd (1999)but I do have the tapes from then until now, I just didn't jot down the names.

[***can I just make a note here - these message boards list the Academy Awards by the YEAR THEY WERE SHOWN IN, which is not the way film books and the Academy lists them - they list them by the year of the movies for which they are given - in other words the one shown THIS year in Feb 2006 should really be the 2005 Oscars (and you will see 'Crash' listed as Best Picture winner 2005) but these boards go ahead and list it as the year it was SHOWN in. Most confusing!***]

Anyway Eddie, here is the listing for the In Memoriam of 1998 (the 71st Academy Awards)

IN MEMORIAM 1998 (71st Annual Academy Awards)

Dane Clark
Linwood Dunn (special effects)
George W Davis (art direction)
Dick O’Neill
Charles Lang (cinematography)
Norman Fell
James Goldman (writer)
Vincent Winter
Freddie Young (cinematography)
John Veitch (executive)
EG Marshall
Jeanette Nolan
Alan J Pakula
Jerome Robbins (director & cinematographer)
Susan Strasberg
John Derek
John Addison (composer)
Jean Marais
Richard Kiley
Maureen O’Sullivan
Phil Hartman
Esther Rolle
Gene Raymond
Binnie Barnes
Valerie Hobson
Huntz Hall
Akira Kurosawa
Alice Faye
Robert Young
Roddy McDowell

Are you missing any others?

Katharine

Never judge things by their appearance. Even carpet bags. I'm sure I never do.

[–] eddy-28 18 years ago

Hey Kathco,

Thanks for that update of those featured in the In Memoriam tribute. That sounds pretty accurate to me. I had completely forgot about Vincent Winter, who won the now defunct Juvenile Academy Award and I had no idea he actually passed away either. You know what is really funny is that none of the actors featured in the 71st Oscars In Memoriam were nominated nor won an Oscar for acting, except for Vincent Winter. I think this was the first year that this happened. Aside from Frank Sinatra who recieved a 'special' Memorial tribute, the only other person that died in 1998 who was nominated for an Oscar was Peggy Cass, and she was not featured during the 71st Oscar show I guess.

Thanks again,
- Eddy-28

[–] kathco 18 years ago

No, she wasn't - they apparently forgot about her. (the Academy? Really?? Shock, horror). But to be honest, I'm not even sure who she is! I mean I can go and look her up but I've never heard of her before!

Interesting you noticed that none of that year's memoriam honorees were even Oscar nominated. I'd never even thought of that before! Now I want to go through every list and see . But they haven't been doing the In Memoriams very long, have they? When did they start again? - 1989 rings a vague bell.

I'll type out more of the listings when I get a chance. I don't have them all with me though.

Cheers,

K

Never judge things by their appearance. Even carpet bags. I'm sure I never do.

[–] eddy-28 18 years ago

Hey Kathco, yeah I pay very close attention to the actors that were winners or nominees who are featured, only because I think the Academy SHOULD include those that were nominated for an Oscar, but that's just me.

I think the In Memoriam tribute originally started in 1989 or 1990 and then the Academy decided they didn't want to do it, only because it was too depressing. I actually sent an email to Mike Shapiro, he fought hard to get the In Memoriam started again and he has been editing and doing every single In Memoriam tribute since 1994. The only one he did not oversee was the awful 74th Oscar's In Memoriam which was handled by Laura Ziskin and Shapiro told me himself that he was also very displeased that the Academy overlooked Dorothy McGuire and other actors/artists that year.

This is a rough estimate, but I have here all the actors that were featured in the 'In Memoriam's over the years that were either Oscar winners or nominees and I know some of their films they either won or were nominated for:

67th Oscar show
Jessica Tandy (Oscar winner- Driving Miss Daisy)
Burt Lancaster (Oscar winner- Elmer Gantry)
Martha Raye (Honorary Oscar winner)
Mildred Natwick (Oscar nominee- Barefoot in the Park)

68th Oscar show
Ginger Rogers (Oscar winner, Kitty Foyle)
Michael Gazzo (Oscar winner, Godfather)
Martin Balsam (Oscar winner- A Thousand Clowns)
Burl Ives (Oscar winner- The Big Country)
Nancy Kelly (Oscar nominee- The Bad Seed)
Lana Turner (Oscar nominee, Peyton Place)
Haing S. Ngor (Oscar winner, The Killing Fields)
George Burns (Oscar winner, The Sunshine Boys)

69th Oscar show
Jo Van Fleet (Oscar winner, East of Eden)
Howard E. Rollins Jr. (Oscar nominee, Ragtime)
Ben Johnson (Oscar winner, The Last Picture Show)
Greer Garson (Oscar winner, Mrs. Miniver)
Lew Ayres (Oscar nominee, Johnny Belinda)
Claudette Colbert (Oscar winner, It Happened One Night)
Marcello Mastroianni (Oscar nominee, Oci Ciornie, Gionata Particolare)

70th Oscar show
Richard Jaeckel (Oscar nominee, Sometimes a Great Notion)
William Hickey (Oscar nominee, Prizzi's Honor)
Burgess Meredith (Oscar nominee, Rocky and The Day of the Locust)
Robert Mitchum (Oscar nominee, The Story of GI Joe)
James Stewart (Oscar winner, The Philadelphia Story)

71st Oscar show
Frank Sinatra (Oscar winner, From Here to Eternity)
Vincent Winter (Special Honorary Juvenile Oscar, The Kidnappers)

Ommissions: Pegg Cass (Oscar nominee, Auntie Mame)

72nd Oscar Show
Sylvia Sidney (Oscar nominee, Summer Wishes Winter Dreams)
Ian Bannen (Oscar nominee, The Flight of the Phoenix)
Lila Kedrova (Oscar winner, Zorba the Greek)
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers (Special Honorary Oscar)
Madeline Kahn (Oscar nominee, Blazing Saddles and Paper Moon)
George C. Scott (Oscar winner, Patton)

Ommissions: Ellen Corby (Oscar nominee, I Remember Mama)

73rd Oscar show
Beah Richards (Oscar nominee, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
Loretta Young (Oscar winner, The Farmer's Daughter)
Richard Farnsworth (Oscar nominee, Comes a Horseman, The Straight Story)
John Gielgud (Oscar winner, Arthur)
Jason Robards (Oscar winner, All the President's Men, Julia)
Claire Trevor (Oscar winner, Key Largo)
Alec Guinness (Oscar winner, The Bridges on the River Kwai)
Walter Matthau (Oscar winner, The Fortune Cookie)

74th Oscar show
Jack Lemmon (Oscar winner, Mister Roberts, Save the Tiger)
Nigel Hawthorne (Oscar nominee, Madness of King George)
Beatrice Straight (Oscar winner, Network)
Eileen Heckart (Oscar winner, Butterflies are Free)
Jason Miller (Oscar nominee, The Exorcist)
Ann Sothern (Oscar nominee, The Whales of August)
Harold Russell (Oscar winner, The Best Years of Our Lives)
Kim Stanley (Oscar nominee, Frances)
Anthony Quinn (Oscar winner, Viva Zapata, Lust for Life)

Ommissions: Dorothy McGuire (Oscar nominee, Gentleman's Agreement),
Peggy Lee (Oscar nominee, Pete Kelly's Blues)

75th Oscar show
Katy Jurado (Oscar nominee, Broken Lance)
Dudley Moore (Oscar nominee, Arthur)
Rod Steiger (Oscar winner, Heat of the Night)
Kim Hunter (Oscar winner, Streetcar Named Desire)
Richard Harris (Oscar nominee, This Sporting Life)
James Coburn (Oscar winner, Affliction)

76th Oscar show
Katharine Hepburn (Oscar winner, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond)
Gregory Peck (Oscar winner, To Kill a Mocking Bird)
Wendy Hiller (Oscar winner, Separete Tables)
Hope Lange (Oscar nominee, Peyton Place)
Art Carney (Oscar winner, Harry and Tonto)
Hume Cronyn (Oscar nominee, The Seventh Cross)
Robert Stack (Oscar nominee, Written on the Wind)
Alan Bates (Oscar nominee, The Fixer)
Jeanne Crain (Oscar nominee, Pinky)

Ommissions: Martha Scott (Oscar nominee, Our Town)

77th Oscar show
Peter Ustinov (Oscar winner, Spartacus, Topaki)
Carrie Snodgress (Oscar nominee, Diary of a Mad House Wife)
Janet Leigh (Oscar nominee, Psycho)
Mercedes McCambridge (Oscar winner, All the Kings Men)
Paul Winfield (Oscar nominee, Sounder)
Marlon Brando (Oscar winner, On the Waterfront, The Godfather)

Ommissions: Jan Sterling (Oscar nominee, The High and the Mighty)

78th Oscar show
Teresa Wright (Oscar winner, Mrs. Miniver)
Pat Morita (Oscar nominee, The Karate Kid)
Dan O'Herhily (Oscar nominee, The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe)
Anthony Franciosa (Oscar nominee, Hatful of Rain)
Barbara Bel Geddes (Oscar nominee, I Remember Mama)
John Mills (Oscar winner, Ryan's Daughter)
Shelley Winters (Oscar winner, Diary of Anne Frank, A Patch of Blue)
Anne Bancroft (Oscar winner, The Miracle Worker)
Eddie Albert (Oscar nominee, Roman Holiday, The Heartbreak Kid)

Ommissions: Ruth Hussey (Oscar nominee, The Philadelphia Story)
Geraldine Fitzgerald (Oscar nominee, Wuthering Heights)

The Oscar nominees and winning actors that we lost this year so far includ:
Jack Wild, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Warden, Red Buttons and Mako.

I think I got every actor featured in each In Memoriam that was either an Oscar winner or nominee.

- Eddy 28

[–] kathco 18 years ago

That is brilliant, Eddy28! You obviously love making lists as much as I do. It's pretty damning for the Academy to see a list like that, screaming "Look how many of your own nominees and winners you didn't bother about, you idiots!" I didn't realise how many there were; I am pretty shocked. I hope they get their act together for this next one (oh and use a nice piece of music too; there hasn't been a really good, moving one for a few years now!)

Thanks

Katharine

Never judge things by their appearance. Even carpet bags. I'm sure I never do.

[–] eddy-28 17 years ago

For the 79th Oscar show, here are the actors that either won, or were nominated for an Oscar that were featured during the show's In Memoriam segment:

Red Buttons (Oscar winner, Sayonara)
Maureen Stapleton (Oscar winner, Reds)
Jack Wild (Oscar nominee, Oliver!)
Jack Palance (Oscar winner, City Slickers)
Mako (Oscar nominee, The Sand Pebbles)
Jack Warden (Oscar nominee, Heaven Can Wait, Shampoo)

Thankfully there were no omissions from actors that died whom WERE nominated or won an Oscar. There were however a few actors that were never Oscar nominees, but were famous or had a known presence who were forgotten: Yvonne De Carlo, Paul Gleason, James Brown, Dennis Weaver, Barnard Hughes to name a few.

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