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Geoff Keighley, lad of IMAX pioneer David Keighley, has slammed the organisers of this year’s Oscars for omitting his begetter from the ceremony’s ‘In Memoriam’ segment.
Keighley played a important relation successful advancing the IMAX movie format. He passed distant successful September 2025 astatine 77. He was not included successful the tribute series during the Academy Awards broadcast, which commemorates members of the movie manufacture who died successful the erstwhile year.
David wrote connected the societal media level X that helium was “incredibly disappointed and heartbroken” that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had not acknowledged his father’s “immeasurable contributions to IMAX and cinema”.
So incredibly disappointed and heartbroken that the #Oscars and AMPAS chose not to see my father, David Keighley, and his immeasurable contributions to IMAX and cinema successful the In Memoriam conception successful the broadcast.
I volition ne'er forget. pic.twitter.com/bMmICAPn3w
Keighley was among respective figures who were absent from the extended tribute. Actor Tom Noonan was besides not mentioned contempt his agelong relation with movie and television.
Another glaring omission was that of French cinema icon Brigitte Bardot. Bardot, who passed distant successful December astatine the property of 91. He wasn’t reportedly included successful the conception amid continued contention implicit her governmental positions person been wide criticised arsenic racist and homophobic.
The ‘In Memoriam’ conception featured appearances by Billy Crystal, Rachel McAdams, and Barbra Streisand, with Streisand concluding the tribute with a philharmonic performance.
