{"id":334046,"date":"2026-03-17T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334046\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:10:10","slug":"oscars-2026-brigitte-bardot-eric-dane-among-stars-snubbed-during-in-memoriam-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334046\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2026: Brigitte Bardot, Eric Dane among stars snubbed during in memoriam tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

A third commenter claimed the Academy \u201cmissed the mark\u201d with its presentation.<\/p>\n

\"FrenchFrench actor Brigitte Bardot did not receive a mention during the Oscars 2026 in memoriam tribute. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

Billy Crystal led the evening\u2019s tributes, eulogising his When Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner who was killed with his wife Michele Singer Reiner in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy friend Rob\u2019s movies will last for lifetimes because they were about what makes us laugh and cry and what we aspire to be: far better in his eyes, far kinder, far funnier, and far more human,\u201d Crystal said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for us who had the privilege of working with him and knowing him and loving him, all we can say is, buddy, what fun we had storming the castle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crystal\u2019s When Harry Met Sally co-star Meg Ryan joined him on stage with other Reiner collaborators including Kathy Bates, Kiefer Sutherland, Demi Moore, Mandy Patinkin and Jerry O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n

\"RobertRobert Redford was honoured by his The Way We Were co-star Barbra Streisand during the 2026 Oscars.<\/p>\n

Rachel McAdams delivered a speech honouring Diane Keaton and Catherine O\u2019Hara, while Barbra Streisand took to the stage for a musical tribute to her The Way We Were co-star Robert Redford.<\/p>\n

\u201cI called him an intellectual cowboy who blazed his own trail and won the Academy Award for best director,\u201d Streisand said of Redford.<\/p>\n

Bardot\u2019s exclusion from the presentation was welcomed by some online viewers, Euronews reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot really sad that a woman convicted several times for hate speech was excluded. Good riddance,\u201d wrote one.<\/p>\n

The Guardian reported a tribute to Bardot at the Oscars\u2019 French equivalent, the Cesar\u2019s, was met with boos from audience members.<\/p>\n

The actor was convicted multiple times for inciting racial hatred.<\/p>\n

\"Grey'sGrey’s Anatomy’s Eric Dane. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

Eric Dane, who died last month after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was also left out of the tribute.<\/p>\n

Producer Shonda Rhimes, creator of Grey\u2019s Anatomy, defended the Oscars\u2019 decision, telling Entertainment Tonight \u201che\u2019s not a movie star\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t fault the Oscars for the fact they were looking at movies and there were so many people who were lost, but Eric was unique to television,\u201d she said, adding he will be \u201cimmortalised the way he should be\u201d at the Emmys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third commenter claimed the Academy \u201cmissed the mark\u201d with its presentation. French actor Brigitte Bardot did not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2246,6946,3471,125544,75015,430,168,52856,6179,2837,16719,156,46351,36305,373,73221,98094,78,685,101,18927,179104,435,111,139,69,179107,2584,179106,179105,13109,23737,544,5436,20838,8496,3608,379],"class_list":["post-334046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-2246","tag-actors","tag-among","tag-bardot","tag-brigitte","tag-celebrities","tag-ceremony","tag-dane","tag-died","tag-during","tag-emotional","tag-entertainment","tag-eric","tag-extended","tag-featured","tag-filmmakers","tag-glaring","tag-in","tag-last","tag-left","tag-lovers","tag-memoriam","tag-movie","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-omissions","tag-oscars","tag-saluting","tag-segment","tag-several","tag-snubbed","tag-some","tag-stars","tag-tribute","tag-upset","tag-were","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}