Academy Awards responds on Dharmendra, Eric Dane omissions. Academy Awards came up with Oscar Memoriam remembering and paying tributes to renowned celebrities across the world.
However, its omission of legends like Dharmendra and Eric Dane shocked all and netizens started trolling them. Reacting to the backlash, Academy Awards came up with the following reply.
Rob Mills defended the decision to omit certain names from the In Memoriam segment during the Academy Awards broadcast.
“I think it’s the hardest thing they possibly do. It always is hard when they are sort of villainised for this. Yes, there’s always people who are left out. Unfortunately, we’re losing more and more people, and especially, we’re losing legendary people every year, so it is probably the hardest needle to thread. I do think what they did last night might have been the best In Memoriam in the history of the Oscars.”
“Robert Redford passed away before, and then when Diane Keaton passed away, and those are two monumental legends — this is in the fall. Now, the advantage we had too with the show was the producers were in place before last year’s show so you can start planning for that now. When you lose people like that the In Memoriam really needs to be really, really done — these are legendary names for losing.”
“And then obviously the tragedy with Rob and Michelle Reiner was just awful. When that happened, I think that’s when they started to really think about, ‘Okay, how is this going to take shape? What are we going to do?’... It’s a big task that I think [Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan] met the moment beautifully.”