Veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra, who passed away in November 2025, didn\u2019t find a mention in the \u2018In Memoriam\u2019 segment at the 98th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n
The tribute segment at this year\u2019s Oscars ran for 15 minutes longer than in previous years with special remembrances for Hollywood legends Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton and Robert Redford.<\/p>\n
Despite the extended runtime, Dharmendra\u2019s name was absent from the broadcast.<\/p>\n
The \u201cSholay\u201d star, however, was included in the official online list of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) alongside five other Indian film personalities \u2014 actors Saroja Devi, Manoj Kumar, Jayasree Kabir, Kota Srinivasa Rao and documentary filmmaker S Krishnaswamy.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the awards season, Dharmendra received a tribute at the 79th BAFTA Awards held at the Royal Festival Hall in February 2026, where he was the only Indian actor included in the \u2018In Memoriam\u2019 montage.<\/p>\n
In previous ceremonies, the \u2018In Memoriam\u2019 segment has occasionally featured Indian film personalities.<\/p>\n
At the 90th Academy Awards in 2018, cinema icons Shashi Kapoor and Sridevi were honoured in the montage, with the two stars receiving a musical tribute by Eddie Vedder.<\/p>\n
More recently, at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021, actors Irrfan Khan and Oscar-winning costume designer Bhanu Athaiya were also remembered in the segment.<\/p>\n
Other names also absent from the broadcast included Brigitte Bardot, James Van Der Beek, Eric Dane, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and \u2018Harold and Maude\u2019 actor Bud Cort.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been an unimaginably hard year where we\u2019ve lost a lot of icons and titans of the film industry. So yes, we are going to expand the \u2018In Memoriam\u2019 because it feels so important that we do a tribute that is worthy of the people that we\u2019ve lost this year,\u201d Oscars producer Katy Mullan told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra, who passed away in November 2025, didn\u2019t find a mention in the \u2018In Memoriam\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,210968,75,337],"class_list":["post-540155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dharmendra-oscars","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}