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The In Memoriam segment did pay tribute to actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. and T.K. Carter during Sunday\u2019s telecast, but several stars who\u2019ve passed away in the last year were left out.<\/p>\n
Even after leading off the Academy Awards<\/a> In Memoriam segment with frequent Spike Lee collaborator and character actor Isiah Whitlock Jr.<\/a>, the Oscars still omitted several notable Black actors and actresses on Sunday (Mar. 15).<\/p>\n Fans quickly pointed out the Academy did not televise the recognition of actors Malcolm-Jamal Warner or \u201cSanford and Son\u201d star Demond Wilson. Judy Pace, a noted actress who starred in several Blaxploitation films and played opposite Billy Dee Williams in \u201cBrian\u2019s Song,\u201d passed away early Sunday<\/a> at the age of 83 and was also not featured on the telecast.<\/p>\n Other names not mentioned on the actual show but featured on the Academy\u2019s website<\/a> included Roy Ayers, Lynn Hamilton, Ananda Lewis, Danielle Spencer and Angie Stone.<\/p>\n Even though Warner and Wilson were mostly known for their TV work, they also held notable film credits. When other notable TV actors, like Eric Dane and James Van Der Beek, were also omitted from the In Memoriam segment, Rhimes stated that she expected Dane to receive a larger tribute at the Primetime Emmy Awards later this year.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s not a movie star,\u201d Rhimes said of Dane to Entertainment Tonight<\/a>. \u201cI feel like, when the Emmys come around, he will be immortalized the way he should be. You can\u2019t fault the Oscars for the fact that they\u2019re looking at movies, and there were so many people who [we] lost. But Eric was unique to television, and I can\u2019t wait to see what [the Emmys] do with him.\u201d<\/p>\n In previous years, the Oscars have faced blowback from fans for notable omissions from the In Memoriam segment. In 2025, horror movie <\/span>king Tony Todd was not mentioned on the telecast, but featured on the Academy\u2019s website, and a similar instance occurred in 2024. Then, Lance Reddick<\/a> and Ron Cephas Jones<\/a> were among the names not included on the Oscars\u2019 telecast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The In Memoriam segment did pay tribute to actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. and T.K. Carter during Sunday\u2019s telecast, but several stars who\u2019ve passed away in the last year were left out. Even after leading off the Academy Awards In Memoriam segment with frequent Spike Lee collaborator and character actor Isiah Whitlock Jr., the Oscars still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2331578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[344472,365621,451862,343316,437671,367407,372003,451490,350582,451863,451864,338877],"class_list":["post-2331577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-academy-awards","tag-ananda-lewis","tag-billy-dee-williams","tag-danielle-spencer","tag-demond-wilson","tag-eric-dane","tag-in-memoriam-segment","tag-isiah-whitlock-jr","tag-james-van-der-beek","tag-judy-pace","tag-lynn-hamilton","tag-malcolm-jamal-warner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Malcom-Jamal-Warner-Demond-Wilson-Judy-Pace-among-In-Memoriam-omissions.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331579,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331577\/revisions\/2331579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}