Veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra, who gave up the ghost in November 2025, did not discover a point out within the ‘In Memoriam’ section on the 98th Academy Awards.
The tribute section at this yr’s Oscars ran for quarter-hour longer than in earlier years with particular remembrances for Hollywood legends Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton and Robert Redford.
Regardless of the prolonged runtime, Dharmendra’s title used to be absent from the printed.
The “Sholay” superstar, alternatively, used to be integrated within the respectable on-line listing of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) along 5 different Indian movie personalities — actors Saroja Devi, Manoj Kumar, Jayasree Kabir, Kota Srinivasa Rao and documentary filmmaker S Krishnaswamy.
Previous within the awards season, Dharmendra won a tribute on the 79th BAFTA Awards held on the Royal Pageant Corridor in February 2026, the place he used to be the one Indian actor integrated within the ‘In Memoriam’ montage.
In earlier ceremonies, the In Memoriam section has now and again featured Indian movie personalities.
On the ninetieth Academy Awards in 2018, cinema icons Shashi Kapoor and Sridevi had been honoured within the montage, with the 2 stars receiving a musical tribute through Eddie Vedder.
Extra just lately, on the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021, actors Irrfan Khan and Oscar-winning dress dressmaker Bhanu Athaiya had been additionally remembered within the section. Different names additionally absent from the printed integrated Brigitte Bardot, James Van Der Beek, Eric Dane, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and ‘Harold and Maude’ actor Bud Cort.
“It’s been an unimaginably exhausting yr the place we’ve misplaced a large number of icons and titans of the movie business. So sure, we’re going to amplify the In Memoriam as it feels so essential that we do a tribute this is worthy of the folks that we’ve misplaced this yr,” Oscars manufacturer Katy Mullan stated forward of the rite.
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