Academy Screws Renfro, In Memoriam

211. This is terrible. Actors should have top billing because they are more well known than agents, makeup artists and studio execs. I bet Heath was mentioned. Everyone forgot about Brad after Heath died. It is a sin. He was a great actor.

Posted at 2:36PM on Feb 26th 2008 by kayla

212. I believe there is no truth to a conspiracy, quite simply the Academy screwed up. Both Heath and Brad died from an accidental overdose, Heath synthetic heroin, and Brad from heroin.

Posted at 3:37PM on Feb 26th 2008 by gossip monger

213. Brad Renfro was not as famous and he was not an academy awarded nominated Actor is why he was not mentioned.

Posted at 4:27PM on Feb 26th 2008 by cricket56

214. Hopefully, Roy Scheider will make next year's list. They listed their Memoriam dates form January 31, 2007-February 1, 2008. Roy died on the 10th.

Posted at 6:36AM on Feb 27th 2008 by Somebody

215. They forgot Alice Ghostly too.

Posted at 9:51PM on Feb 26th 2008 by Rosie

216. It's all politics, all the time. That's just sad.

Posted at 6:42PM on Feb 26th 2008 by auddoll

217. The insensitive fools who keep saying he's worm food, shut the hell up. He was cremated, not buried. Therefore your attempt at an insult failed. How pathetic can you get when you result to trying to insult the dead. I believe in karma so hopefully yours will happen soon. You're just angry because the day that you're thrown in a ditch and turned into actual worm food nobody will care, even the worms wouldn't want you as food, though.

Posted at 7:57PM on Feb 26th 2008 by Jessica

218. It thought I was the only one who noticed. I remembered that Brad died a week or so before Heath bc I saw it on TMZ. It's never good when someone so young dies and it does have a great impact. Agents were mentionned but not an A-list actor? I really don't get it. At least it seems that Brad will be remembered by a lot of people.

Posted at 11:27PM on Feb 28th 2008 by Annie D

219. thank you, tmz, for acknowledging and running this story. it is a horrible and offensive thing the academy did on sunday. i would also partially blame the media for not picking up the story after he died. it's good to know that someone is cares, if not for brad, then for good reporting's sake.

Posted at 12:40PM on Feb 27th 2008 by deanna

220. The Academy has once again earned the disrepect of the viewing audience .
Brad was deliberatly forgotten from what I understand .These choices are political .They are not made by the academy members at large but some inside group at the top.
My mother Yvonne DFe Carlo was delibertly omitted from the in memorium segment and I was told by unnamed lower staff that although they voted for her that
"SHE WAS DELIBERTLY VOTED DOWN FROM THE TOP ."
Those upper staff people are unnamed .
Yet They want us to accept thier choices and they want to SHAPE PUBLIC OPINION WHIL E GOING UNNAMED .
I understand the Academy Awards has recieved it lowest viewership rating ever DOWN TWENTY PERCENT THIS YEAR.
IN PANDERING TO UNNAMED SPECIAL INTERST GROUPS the Academy has tuned out and America is turning them off in great numbers .
LETS HERE IT FOR FOUNDING A NEW ACADEMY !!

Posted at 5:32PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Bruce R Morgan

221. Brad was forgotten in a rather deliberate way .
My mother Yvonne De Carlo was deliberatly voted out of the in memorium segment in 2007.
The lower staff (unnamed reported that the upper staff had held a private vote oin who gets in .
At This same academy of motion pictures arts and science ,I witness old men voting as judges of foriegn film in 1977 .They would sit upstairs eat cake drink coffie then WITHOUT SEEING THE FILM they would cast a negative ballot against the film and Price Waterhouse took the ballots and honored them .The only rule was that they had to stay upstairs where the wilsher theater was .
The acdemy has been due for a public outcry for some time .
They are an elite and largly secretive group responding to money and influence pressure .
Yet They want public respect for thier public Broadcast .
This year Oscar viewership was down 20 per cent.
The Academy will demolish itself ad a better recognition Awards group will take its place --I Hope .

Posted at 2:07AM on May 3rd 2008 by Bruce R Morgan

222. The Academy also neglected to mention Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful actress that graced the silver screen for over 5 decades. She also starred on Broadway and, of course, was Lily Munster on television and in films.

Posted at 8:27PM on Mar 2nd 2008 by Hamlet

223. I just read the comments by Ms. De Carlo's son and I agree completely. Yvonne De Carlo was the ultimate movie actress, talented, beautiful and a real show business trooper. She not only deserved to be in the tribute but should have been nominated for an oscar for her roles in The Captain's Paradise, Hotel Sahara, Criss Cross and The Ten Commandments. Technicolor was made for her and there is no one who can take her place in movie history. God Bless her!

Posted at 8:39PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Long-time De Carlo Fan

224. To complain: http://www.oscars.org/contact/general.html

Posted at 5:39AM on Feb 28th 2008 by jd

225. And what about poor Whoopie Goldberg, an Oscar host, also ignored.

Posted at 1:46PM on Feb 28th 2008 by Lynsey