Farrah Fawcett’s longtime partner, Ryan O’Neal, has joined the chorus of other Hollywood figures including Jane Fonda and Roger Ebert in expressing dismay that Fawcett was left out of the “In Memoriam” segment of Sunday’s Academy Awards.
There is no comment other than we were disappointed that she was not included,” a rep for O’Neal told PEOPLE.
Fonda and Ebert both Tweeted about the snub during the broadcast. “No Farrah Fawcett in the memorial tribute? Major fail,” Ebert wrote. “And where was Farrah Fawcett? She should have been included,” wrote Fonda.
The “In Memoriam” portion of the broadcast features a montage of film-industry figures who have passed away in the previous year. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences spokeswoman Leslie Unger says that the segment can only honor so many people.
“Every year it’s an unfortunate reality that we can’t include everybody,” she told the Associated Press.
Before the show, Academy executive director Bruce Davis spoke about the difficult process of creating the segment:
“It is the single most troubling element of the Oscar show every year…Because more people die each year than can possibly be included in that segment…It gets close to agonizing by the end,” he said. “You are dropping people who the public knows. It’s just not comfortable.”
Fawcett, whose untimely demise happened last June, at the young age of 62, was firstly a TV actress, though she did appear in a number of feature films.
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