Oscars will pay tribute to Gene Hackman at Sunday’s show, which takes place just four days after the actor’s and his wife was discovered in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A person who works on the show and has knowledge of the plans told Thewrap that the late actor, a five times Oscar-nominated as and twice the winner, will get a tribute to the show. It is believed that he will probably be added to the Memoriam segment of the ceremony, although this movie would usually have been locked for a week or two before the show.
The academy never reveals in advance that will be included in II Memoriam, and it refused to comment on when Thewrap asked if Hackman would be an add -on at the last minute to the show.
The legendary actor, who died at the age of 95, was nominated for best actors for “The French Connection” and “Mississippi Burning”, won for the previous film and for best actress for “Bonnie and Clyde”, “I never sang for my father” and “Unfergives”, won for the last of them. He retired from acting in 2004.
The bodies of Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found on Wednesday after no one on their home answered the door when a maintenance worker arrived. They could have been dead for as long as “a couple of weeks”, According to the investigators.
The Oscars producer Raj Kapoor announced earlier during a press conference that the show would include a musical tribute to the late Quincy Jones, which died in November, just two weeks before the Governor’s Awards ceremony where he would receive an honorary academy.
