Chapman’s photo was used to accompany the name and dates of her friend, Janet Patterson, a four-time Oscar nominee for costume design, who died in October 2016.
Janet was a great beauty and four-time Oscar nominee and it is very disappointing that the error was not picked up.
I was devastated by the use of my image in place of my great friend and long-time collaborator Janet Patterson.
Australian film producer Jan Chapman has said she is “devastated” after her photo was mistakenly used in the Oscars’ In Memoriam montage, which celebrates film industry luminaries who have died in the past year.