Oscar Memorial Video 2010

Each year, an "In Memoriam" video is played during the Oscars, paying tribute to actors, directors, writers, crew and other film personalities who have died over the past year. The 82st Annual Academy Awards ceremony aired on March 7, 2010, and paid tribute to key cinema figures who died in 2009.

Most of those that have died in the Oscar-eligible calendar year are known to industry professionals, like screenwriters and producers, while those that have been in mainstream movies, such as lead or supporting actors/actresses that receive the most recognition and vocal accolades from the viewing audience.

Actress Demi Moore opened the memorial segment with a short speech followed by James Taylor performing "In My Live". Behind him on a screen there were images of people who passed over the last year including, David Carradine, Howard Zieff, Dom DeLuise, Army Archerd, Ron Silver, Brittany Murphy, Lou Jacobi, Simon Channing- Williams, Betsy Blair, Joseph Wiseman, Kathryn Grayson, Arthur Canton, Nat Boxer (sound) Roy E. Disney, Horton Foote (writer) Budd Schulberg (writer) Michael Jackson, Natasha Richardson, and Patrick Swayze.

The presentation, which was three and half minutes long, started about two and half hours into the live Oscar event. The video montage that was shown was a collection of images from films that showcased each person who died. It was mostly somber, with reserved claps and/or cheering when the actors, directors, journalists, screenwriters and producers appeared on the screen. For the Oscar memorial video 2009, Queen Latifah sung a musical accompaniment version of the song "I'll Be Seeing You".

Although he only acted in two mainstream movies - Men In Black II and The Wiz, Michael Jackson received a moderate amount of applause, mostly due to his popularity, untimely death and contribution to the entertainment industry.

James Taylor at the 2010 Academy Awards, performing during the showing of the Oscar Memorial video.

The following is a list of those that died that were shown on the video montage at the Oscars 2010:

• Army Archerd
  
• Arthur Canton
  
• Betsy Blair
  
• Brittany Murphy
  
• Budd Schulberg
  
• Daniel Melnick
  
• David Brown
  
• David Carradine
  
• Dom DeLuise
  
• Eric Rohmer
  
• Gareth Wigan
  
• Horton Foote
  
• Howard Zieff
  
• Jack Cardiff
  
• Jean Simmons
  
• Jennifer Jones
  
• Joseph Wiseman
  
• Kathryn Grayson
  
• Ken Annakin
  
• Karl Malden
  
• Larry Gelbart
  
• Lou Jacobi
  
• Michael Jackson
  
• Millard Kaufman
  
• Nat Boxer
  
• Natasha Richardson
  
• Patrick Swayze
  
• Robert Woodruff Anderson
  
• Ron Silver
  
• Roy Disney
  
• Simon Channing-Williams
  
• Tulio Pinelli
  

About 50 minutes into the Oscar ceremony, Molly Ringwald and Matthew Broderick introduced a special John Hughes Oscar Tribute showing clips from his films like The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. After the video was shown, Molly and Matthew joined Jon Cryer, Macaulay Culkin, Anothony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy on stage, sharing their own personal accounts of working with John Hughes.

Surprisingly, two famous actresses were not included on the list of those that had died in 2009. Farrah Fawcett, who died on June 25, 2009, the same day as Michael Jackson, who was included in the tribute, was missing from the montage. Beatrice Arthur, more commonly known as "Bea", was also not included. She died on April 25, 2009.

Farrah appeared in the Oscar nominated film, The Apostle. Bea appeared in just a couple of films, Lovers and Other Strangers and Mame. She also has a history of performances in both theater and television.

The others that died in 2009 that were not shown on the video montage are listed below:

• Beverly Roberts
  
• Dan O'Bannon
  
• Ed McMahon
  
• Gale Storm
  
• Jade Goody
  
• James Whitmore
  
• Lucy Gordon
  
• Pat Hingle
  
• Patrick McGoohan
  
• Sulsanna Foster
  

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