04/25/2021 9:01 AM
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In the protocol of the Oscar Awards gala there is a moment of deep regret
for the entertainment world,
the so-called In Memoriam
, which remembers
the celebrities who died in the last year
, the one that on the night of the 2021 awards ceremony He will rescue a large number of stars that have already disappeared.
Old legends
, some who had crossed the hundred-year-old border, and
young luminaries who died in a surprising way
when they were at the zenith of their careers will be part of
the gallery of figures that will be honored
this Sunday, April 25 at the ceremony of the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
But not only will great actors and actresses be paid tribute at the
Oscars
, but
there will also be space to highlight outstanding directors
, such as musicians who have adorned a large number of films with their work, such will be
the case of the Italian Ennio Morricone
.
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Kirk Douglas (1916-2020)
Actor Kirk Douglas
, Spartacus for generations and one of Hollywood's last holy monsters,
passed away at the age of 103 on February 5, 2020
.
Douglas starred in 92 films
in a career that spanned seven decades.
His work led him to be nominated up to three times for the Oscar for best actor, but it was not until 1996 when he took the stage to collect
the statuette in recognition of his entire career
.
His last major public appearance was in 2018
, when he was honored at the
Golden Globes
and took the stage accompanied by his daughter-in-law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is married to Michel Douglas.
Kirk Douglas died at the age of 103.
In 2018 he had been honored at the Golden Globes. In the photo, with his daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Sean Connery (1930-2020)
The first James Bond
, a role he played in seven films of the famous spy, was only once nominated for an Oscar and he won it:
he won the statuette for his work as a supporting actor in Los Untocables, Brian De Palma's play
about Chicago. of Prohibition in the times of Al Capone.
The Scotsman
played a tough policeman with violent but effective methods
, Jim Malone, who with his advice guided the task of Eliott Ness (Kevin Costner).
His film career also includes such films as
Marnie, Robin and Marian, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, The Man Who Could Reign, The Name of the Rose, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express and La Roca
, among others.
Sean Connery in the role that catapulted him as an actor and sex symbol: James Bond.
Sean Connery
was anointed a knight by the British crown in 2000. And a year earlier, at 69, he was voted the sexiest man of the century.
Christopher Plummer (1929-2001)
Christopher Plummer
, Canadian by birth,
passed away on February 5, 2021
.
He appeared in numerous films and became known worldwide for his
starring role in the 1965 musical The Rebel Novice
, in which he played
Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp
.
However,
it would not be until 2012 when he was recognized with an Osca
r
award
, for the film Beginners ("Beginners, this is how love feels").
During his last professional stage he was also nominated for an Oscar in 2010 for The Last Station ("The last station") and in 2018 for All the Money in the World ("All the money in the world").
Among other great roles, Christopher Plummer was the counter-figure to Julie Andrews in The Rebel Novice.
(DPA)
Max von Sydow (1929 - 2020)
Born in Lund, Sweden,
Max von Sydow was twice nominated for an Oscar
for performance by Pelle The Conqueror in 1988 and So Strong and So Close in 2011, but was
never able to take home the Academy Award statuette
.
Among other films in which he also participated, in 1973 he played Lankester Merrin, the priest who had to deal with the demons that had possessed Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
And
in 2015 he had a brief intervention in the first minutes of Star Wars, The Force Awakens
, the piece that started the third saga.
Max von Sydow in "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens".
Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)
He became world famous for having put the body of Black Panther,
Marvel's black superhero
, but
Chadwick Boseman
may win his first and only Oscar for his latest film, The Mother of the Blues, which he starred in 2020 before dying very young. 43 years old, victim of colon cancer.
He had also participated in the last Spike Lee movie, Da 5 Bloods
, and was set to star again in the 2022 sequel to Black Panther.
Chadwick Boseman will be honored but he may also win a posthumous Oscar.
Alan Parker (1944 - 2020)
He never won an Oscar, but British director Alan Parker was a 20th century film figure
for many of the pieces that bore his stamp: Midnight Express (won the
British
BAFTA
), The Wall or Mississippi in Flames, among other memorable films. .
In 1996 he was in Argentina to direct the musical Evita
, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, starring Madonna, Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce.
The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and won for Best Original Song, Sung by Madonna.
Alan Parker in Argentina with Madonna, during the filming of Evita.
Joel Schumacher (1939-2020)
New Yorker Joel Schumacher, who died on June 22, 2020
after fighting cancer,
was the director of two Batman films
, which in the 1990s followed those made by Tim Burton.
And he also took part in other well-remembered productions such as St Elmo's Fire and A Day of Fury, the film in which Michael Douglas unleashed all his anger.
Schumacher directed Batman Forever in 1995
, starring Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey and Nicole Kidman, and which grossed more than $ 300 million.
But
in 1997 he crashed with the failure of Batman and Robin
, with George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Alicia Silverstone and Uma Thurman.
Joel Schumacher directed two episodes of Batman in the 1990s. (Reuters)
Ennio Morricone (1928 - 2020)
Ennio Morricone was one of the great creators of musical bands for films in the 20th century
, who was able to win his first Oscar for a work with The Hateful Eight, in 2016, directed by
Quentin Tarantino
.
A decade earlier, he had been given an honorary statuette in recognition of his career.
Among others, he scored the western
El Bueno, el Malo y el Feo
;
The Mission
(shot in the Iguazu Falls);
Once upon a Time in America;
Los Untocables and Cinema Pafradiso.
Ennio Morricone with Quentin Tarantino, at the end of his prolific career.
(AFP)
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