Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino has criticised the Oscars for not paying tribute to her late father, actor Paul Sorvino.
The actress, who won her Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite in 1996, took to Twitter to express her disappointment that her father, who starred in films like Goodfellas and Romeo + Juliet, was not included in the ceremony’s In Memoriam section.
“It is baffling beyond belief that my beloved father and many other amazing brilliant departed actors were left out,” she said. “The Oscars forgot about Paul Sorvino, but the rest of us never will!!”
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Fans went on to notice a whole host of missing famous faces from the Oscars In Memoriam segment.
The annual tribute to those from the industry who had died over the past year was a moving one with John Travolta introducing the segment, which started with Australian actress Olivia Newton-John.
But as Lenny Kravitz sang Calling All Angels, there were some glaring omissions from the people shown on screen, including Anne Heche, Tom Sizemore, Leslie Jordan and Lisa Marie Presley.
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Charlbi Dean from Triangle of Sadness, which was up for the Best Picture Oscar was also absent.
The 32-year-old’s sudden death in August 2022 – caused by the bacterial infection sepsis, which was related to the removal of her spleen – made headlines last year.
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Dean, Heche, Sizemore and Jordan were all featured on the Oscars website’s In Memoriam page, however.
Following the stirring performance, fans were told to check online for more names of those lost by scanning a QR code on screen.
Heche also died last August, aged 53, after a car crash in Los Angeles, while 67-year-old Jordan died in October from a sudden cardiac arrest while driving.
Sizemore, who famously starred in 1998’s Saving Private Ryan, died of a brain aneurysm earlier this month, aged 61.
Presley, the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley who died in January just days after the Golden Globes, did not feature online either.
Despite her involvement with the Baz Luhrmann biopic about her father, the singer was not a producer on the film and hasn’t starred in any movies herself.
Jennifer Aniston’s dad and longtime soap star John Aniston was also missing from the TV package and online tributes.
The In Memoriam piece did feature other lost TV stars including another of Travolta’s co-stars Kirstie Alley and journalist Barbara Walters.
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