Overview
- The broadcast featured extended on-stage salutes led by Billy Crystal for Rob Reiner and by Rachel McAdams and Barbra Streisand for Diane Keaton, Catherine O’Hara and Robert Redford.
- Reiner’s tribute culminated with collaborators including Meg Ryan, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Kathy Bates, Kiefer Sutherland, Demi Moore, Jerry O’Connell, Annette Bening, Mandy Patinkin, Fred Savage and Cary Elwes joining on stage.
- The video montage additionally memorialized Tom Stoppard, Terence Stamp, Sally Kirkland, Claudia Cardinale, Udo Kier, Eduardo Serra and Diane Ladd.
- Viewers noted that Eric Dane and James Van Der Beek were not shown in the televised segment, though the Academy listed them on its website.
- Brigitte Bardot was likewise absent from the broadcast tribute, and the ceremony directed audiences to the online In Memoriam for additional names.