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UPDATE: 5:30 p.m., Tuesday
The executive director of the film academy says Farrah Fawcett wasn’t included in the Academy Awards In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
Bruce Davis says it was a difficult decision for the committee that assembles the segment to omit Fawcett and that he’s not surprised that some fans and family members are upset.
Fawcett and actor Gene Barry were both omitted from the necrology sequence. Davis says he and his colleagues thought the two were best known for their “remarkable television work” and would be more appropriately honored by the television academy at the Emmy Awards.
Fawcett, who died in June at the age of 62, was notably left out of the tribute, which was accompanied by James Taylor singing The Beatles’ “In My Life.”
Fawcett was predominantly a TV actress and starred in “Charlie’s Angels” and numerous made-for-TV movies. But she also appeared in theatrically released films, including 1976’s “Logan’s Run,” 1986’s “Extremities,” 1997’s “The Apostle” and 2000’s “Dr. T and the Women.”
There are often quibbles with the selections for the Oscar memoriam, but Fawcett’s credits — and her celebrity — would seem to qualify her for the tribute. The montage also included Michael Jackson, whose predominant medium certainly wasn’t theatrically released movies.
Film critic Roger Ebert was among those who questioned Fawcett’s absence on Twitter. Ebert called it a “major fail” and wrote, “They have a whole lot of ‘splaining to do.”
Said Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences spokeswoman Leslie Unger, “Every year it’s an unfortunate reality that we can’t include everybody.”
PR spokeswoman Leslie Unger did her distasteful job … paint the organization in a favorable light despite its shortcomings. Typical corporate BS. Farrah’s star shines brightly with ‘em or without ‘em.
Again it shows how politically bias the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. They bow to and scrape to the whims of the “big” who donate monies to keep the “members” in “champagne and caviar”. I quit watching years ago when I felt that it became more about the “monies from the big’s” and not about the performances.
Farrah is an ICON, always will be…You will always be Jill Munroe to me.
She obviously never slept with the right people
WHAT! Tom Hanks and the rest have got to be a part of this. They either don’t care or are incompetent. Either way its bad for PR! Also, not giving Avatar the Best Picture award is just another example of its being disconnected from the viewing public.
This will hurt the Awards. Incompetence isn’t an excuse, neither does having a snotty attitude in explaining the snub.
I stopped watching these self-aggrandizing B.S. artists a long time ago.
Remember they get an award for making you believe they are something they are not! In
If we all ignored these fools; perhaps they would get the message that they are insignificant to most people’s lives.
I doubt that will happen though; like Sean Penn they don’t seem to know where reality starts or stops and their B.S. is their reality.
You all have a good day.
John Mo
You are what you do not what you have
Poor girl Micheal Jackson stole her death thunder now this, LOL.
Really folks lets start writting about news that matters like today’s elections!