“I was devastated by the use of my image in place of my great friend and long-time collaborator Janet Patterson.
Janet was a great beauty and four-time Oscar nominee and it is very disappointing that the error was not picked up.
I had urged her agency to check any photograph which might be used and understand that they were told that the Academy had it covered.
With Broadway star Sarah Barellies singing a cover of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Both Sides’, the In Memoriam segment was a fitting tribute to those from the world of cinema that we lost this past year.