Overview
- Three of O'Hara's best-known onscreen children took the stage to lead the tribute with Macaulay Culkin opening the remarks and Annie Murphy and Dan Levy following.
- Culkin called O'Hara “mama” and urged viewers to call their mothers, Murphy recalled fan encounters that showed the public's grief, and Levy said the biggest lesson he learned from her was to “always say yes.”
- The O'Hara tribute began the Emmys' In Memoriam segment on Monday night and was followed by Noah Kahan's live performance of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” as the montage ran.
- The telecast also included separate remembrances for other recent losses, with Jamie Lee Curtis delivering a tearful tribute to Rob Reiner and a reel honoring figures such as Dolly Parton and James Burrows.
- Coverage noted O'Hara's five-decade career from SCTV through Home Alone and Schitt's Creek, and reiterated that she died Jan. 30 at 71 from a pulmonary embolism with rectal cancer listed as a contributing cause.