The biggest snubs and oversights of the Oscars 2017 In Memoriam section

Every year the Oscars In Memoriam section manages to miss off some names, either because they couldn’t squeeze them in or those in charge just plain old forgot about them.

This year’s ceremony was no different, because while Carrie Fisher, Prince, and Debbie Reynolds were mentioned in the touching segment, there wasn’t any room for the likes of Robert Vaughn, Bernard Fox, Ron Glass, Garry Shandling and Hugh O’Brian.

Also missing from the tribute was actress and trans activist Alexis Arquette. Arquette’s Oscar-winning sister Patricia Arquette lamented her absence from the video saying “We’re living in a time right now where trans kids can’t even go to the bathroom in schools and they’re diminished in society. It’s really unfortunate that the Oscars decided they couldn’t show a trans person who was such an important person in this community. Because—trans kids—it could have meant a lot to them.”

There’s also an argument to be made that Muhammad Ali should have been mentioned, too, as he starred in the 1977 biopic ‘The Greatest’, which revolved around the latter stages of his career, while he was also the main focus of ‘When We Were Kings,’ which even won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

You can check out the moving tribute, which included Sara Bareilles singing Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now over the top of it, below.

Some sections of the internet were also up in the arms over the omissions of Alan Rickman and David Bowie, too. However, they were actually recognised during last year’s Oscars ceremony.

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