Film fans were left scratching their heads with raised eyebrows as screen stars Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur were left out of the annual Oscars “In Memoriam” montage, honoring Hollywood’s fallen giants, at Sunday night’s 2010 Academy Awards.
Each year, there are a few names who end up being left out of the tribute to stars who died the previous year. This year, Farrah — best known as one-third of television’s Charlie’s Angels — and Emmy winner Bea Arthur, former star of small hits Maude and The Golden Girls, were the unlucky pair noticeably absent from an obit reel that featured Brat Pack director John Hughes and actress Brittany Murphy.
Both stars appeared in films and theater in addition to their work in TV, with Fawcett even earning an Emmy nod for her 1984 film The Burning Bed.
Someone’s going to have some explaining to do, says film critic Roger Ebert, who summed up the snub in the following Tweet: “No Farrah Fawcett in the memorial tribute? Major fail.”