The Academy honors friends and colleagues we lost over the last year. Take a moment to remember the artists and filmmakers we lost in 2024-2025.
A look back
Jim Abrahams
Writer; Director; Producer
Percy Adlon
Director; Writer
Anouk Aimée
Actress
Nick Alphin
Rerecording mixer
John Amos
Actor
George Anderson
Sound editor
Niels Arestrup
Actor
George Armitage
Director; Writer
Erica Ash
Actress
John Ashton
Actor
Larry Auerbach
Agent; Educator
Paul Auster
Writer; Director
Jonathan Axelrod
Executive; Producer; Writer
Jeff Baena
Director; Writer
Richard E. Baker
Executive; Accountant
Wolfgang Becker
Director; Writer
Shyam Benegal
Director
Michel Blanc
Actor; Writer; Director
Bertrand Blier
Director; Writer
Mitchell W. Block
Producer; Distributor
Tyler Blythe
Sound mixer
Christine Boisson
Actress
Edward Bond
Writer
Tom Bower
Actor
Sandy Bresler
Agent
Marshall Brickman
Director; Writer
Paul Bronfman
Studio operator
Don Buchwald
Agent
Susan Buckner
Actress
Edgar Burcksen
Film editor
John F. Burnett
Film editor; Academy Governor
Joe Camp
Director; Writer; Producer; Executive
Glenn Campbell
Visual effects supervisor
Laurent Cantet
Director; Writer
Terry Carter
Actor
Leo Chaloukian
Rerecording mixer; Sound executive; Academy Governor
Ray Chan
Art director; Production designer
Cheng Pei-pei
Actress
Colin Chilvers
Special effects
Souleymane Cissé
Director; Writer
Bill Cobbs
Actor
Dabney Coleman
Actor
Stephanie Collie
Costume designer
Barry Michael Cooper
Writer
Saul Cooper
Publicist; Producer
Eleanor Coppola
Director; Writer; Cinematographer
Roger Corman
Director; Producer; Executive
Peter Coulson
Film editor
Dianne Crittenden
Casting director
Kathryn Crosby
Actress
Charles Cyphers
Actor
Phyllis Dalton
Costume designer
Mark Damon
Actor; International sales agent; Producer
James Darren
Actor; Singer
Walt deFaria
Producer
Alain Delon
Actor
Pilar Del Rey
Actress
Roger Dicken
Special effects; Modelmaker
Carlos Diegues
Director; Writer
Eileen Diss
Production designer
Shannen Doherty
Actress
David Allan Duke
Musician
Shelley Duvall
Actress; Producer
Emilio Echevarría
Actor
Jerry Eisenberg
Animation artist
Ron Ely
Actor
Paul Engelen
Makeup artist
Leonard Engelman
Makeup artist; Academy Governor
Jeannie Epper
Stunt performer
Art Evans
Actor
Evans Evans
Actress
Marianne Faithfull
Singer; Actress
Jules Feiffer
Writer; Cartoonist
David Lee Fein
Foley artist
Joe Flaherty
Actor
Vic Flick
Musician; Composer; Conductor
George Folsey Jr.
Film editor; Producer
Richard Foronjy
Actor
Huckleberry Fox
Child actor
KC Fox
Set decorator
Barbra Fuller
Actress
Lee Gabler
Agent
Teri Garr
Actress
Mitzi Gaynor
Actress; Singer
Michael Gerety
Publicist; Executive
Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Actor
Louis Gossett Jr.
Actor
Frank Griffin
Makeup artist
Trevor Griffiths
Writer
Jan Haag
Executive; Director
Gene Hackman
Actor
Dayle Haddon
Actress
Joe Hale
Animation artist; Producer
Andras Hamori
Producer
Françoise Hardy
Singer; Songwriter; Actress
David Harris
Actor
Ted Hatfield
Marketing executive
Alan Haufrect
Actor
Jonathan Haze
Actor
Pat Heywood
Actress
Darryl Hickman
Actor
Bernard Hill
Actor
Alice Hirson
Actress
Earl Holliman
Actor
Kevyn Major Howard
Actor
Zakir Hussain
Musician; Composer; Actor
Olivia Hussey
Actress
Claude Jarman Jr.
Actor; Festival director
Peter Jason
Actor
Michael Jenkins
Director; Writer
Will Jennings
Songwriter
Jack Jones
Singer; Actor
James Earl Jones
Actor; Academy Governor
Quincy Jones
Producer; Composer; Musician
Jaclyn Jose
Actress
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Composer
Jay Kanter
Agent; Executive
Bruce Kessler
Director
John D. Kimble
Agent
Fumi Kitahara
Publicist
David Korda
Executive; Producer
Kris Kristofferson
Actor; Singer; Songwriter
John Kurlander
Recording engineer
Robert Laemmle
Theater executive
Jon Landau
Producer; Executive
Linda Lavin
Actress
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Actress
Dan Leimeter
Projectionist
Gerald M. Levin
Executive
Tony Lo Bianco
Actor
Robert Logan
Actor
Grant Loucks
Equipment engineer
David Loughery
Writer
Martha Luttrell
Agent
David Lynch
Director; Writer; Producer
Elizabeth MacRae
Actress
Carl Maduri
Record producer
Randal Malone
Actor
Peter Marshall
Actor; Television host
Paul Maslansky
Producer
Mitzi McCall
Actress; Writer
Malachy McCourt
Actor
Tim McGovern
Visual effects supervisor
Paul McWilliams
Visual effects artist
Sergio Mendes
Composer; Musician
Margaret Menegoz
Producer
Mario Morra
Film editor
Paul Morrissey
Director; Writer
Martin Mull
Actor; Comedian
Miho Nakayama
Actress; Singer
Bob Newhart
Comedian; Actor
Christopher Newman
Production sound mixer
Zack Norman
Actor; Producer
Eliot Noyes Jr.
Animator; Director; Producer
Edna O'Brien
Writer
Lynda Obst
Producer
Al Onorato
Casting director; Manager
Roberto Orci
Writer; Producer
Geneviève Page
Actress
Ken Page
Actor
Janis Paige
Actress
Marisa Paredes
Actress
Richard Parsons
Executive
Elda Peralta
Actress
Silvia Pinal
Actress
Joan Plowright
Actress
Sonya Polonsky
Film editor
Dick Pope
Cinematographer
Lourdes Portillo
Documentary filmmaker
Roger Pratt
Cinematographer
Nicholas Pryor
Actor
Chris Pula
Marketing executive
Alan Rachins
Actor
Alvin Rakoff
Director
Robert Richter
Documentary filmmaker
Stephen J. Rivele
Writer
Eugene Paul Rizzardi
Special effects
Tony Roberts
Actor
Fred Roos
Producer; Casting director
Robert Rosen
Archivist; Film historian; Educator
Gena Rowlands
Actress
Sam Rubin
Broadcast journalist
Albert S. Ruddy
Producer
Isaac Ruiz Jr.
Actor
Barbara Rush
Actress
Nancy St. John
Visual effects producer
Michael Schlesinger
Executive; Producer; Director; Writer
Wolf Schmidt
Executive; Producer
David Seidler
Writer
Richard M. Sherman
Composer; Songwriter
Charles Shyer
Writer; Director; Producer
James B. Sikking
Actor
Edgardo Simone
Orchestrator
Bud Smith
Film editor
Maggie Smith
Actress
Martial Solal
Musician; Composer
Adam Somner
Assistant director; Producer
JD Souther
Singer; Songwriter; Actor
Norman Spencer
Producer; Production manager; Writer
Morgan Spurlock
Director; Producer; Writer
Martin Starger
Executive; Producer
Peter E. Strauss
Executive; Producer
John C. Strong III
Producer
Donald Sutherland
Actor
Anthea Sylbert
Costume designer; Executive
Jeannot Szwarc
Director
Hubert Taczanowski
Cinematographer
Jim Tauber
Executive
Lynne Taylor-Corbett
Choreographer
Tony Todd
Actor
Robert Towne
Writer; Director; Producer
Michelle Trachtenberg
Actress
Masaharu (Shoji) Ueda
Cinematographer
Iikka Vehkalahti
Documentarian
Robert Verrall
Producer; Director; Animator
Johnny Wactor
Actor
Dan Wallin
Rerecording mixer (music)
M. Emmet Walsh
Actor
Joseph Wambaugh
Writer
Robert Watts
Producer; Production manager
Paula Weinstein
Producer; Executive
Eric Weissmann
Entertainment attorney
Josh Welsh
Executive
Timothy West
Actor
Lisa Westcott
Makeup Artist; Hairstylist
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Psychologist; Radio talk show host; Television personality
Samm-Art Williams
Actor
Patti Yasutake
Actress
Ronnie Yeskel
Casting director
Bruno Zanin
Actor