TCM Remembers 2024

Absolutely killer.

Perfect, as usual

Except....there are always important deaths in those last two weeks of the year. Every year.

James Earl Jones is pretty much guaranteed the final spot in the Academy reel isn’t he?

It should be Donald Sutherland.

Or Maggie Smith or Gena Rowlands!!

R3 Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds was a shocker.

They should wait until the year is over.

I had forgotten that Don Murray died this year

TCM always does a good job with these

Glad the ailing TCM under that bastard Zaslav could keep this up.

Last year's was better

The TCM people should be in charge of the Oscar montage, it’s always terrible

Tops will be JEJ, Sutherland, Maggie Smith, and Gena.

These kinds of things work better for me with music or songs with no words. The lyrics can be distracting when you just want to look at the people.

I didn't know James Darren had died! :(

ugly cried, as usual..this year might have been the worst..

YouTube link for those of us who don't trifle with Facebook.

This year's tears were personal. I actually knew a couple of those people, and I miss them.

Nice montage overall, although I wish some of them had been given a few more seconds on the screen.

I didn't know about Marisa Paredes but that happened only 4 days ago.

Noooooo, I hadn't known about Tony Todd!

He, and his voice; Francisco Quinn and his voice; and Keith David and his voice, are some of the best parts of [italic]Platoon.[/italic]

He was great in everything I ever saw him in, even what many actors would consider a"throwaway" part; to this day I watch the disturbing episode of [italic]Criminal Minds[/italic] called "The Fox" just to watch Tony give a Master's workshop in acting your ass off, even if you have to elevate mediocre-to-poor writing to do it.

R21, here is the thread we had on Tony Todd:

Beautiful clip of Shelley Duvall.

Also Teri Garr.

I agree with the upthread poster who said he preferred music without lyrics. Very distracting and often inappropriate to the subject matter.

And frankly, though this may be blasphemy, I'd rather see a few more seconds of the bigger stars and artists we've lost than every single producer, screenwriter, production designer and editor. This is a tribute for movie fans, not the industry.

Fuck you R24

I second what R25 said, Fuck you, R24 - you sound more like a TBS than TCM movie fan…

I've said this in other threads, but I was I knew how good we had it with late 90's/early 2000's TCM. If I could go back, I would have recorded as much as I could.

Thank you so much, R22! I hadn't seen it; my old Dad was in the hospital during that time.

Impeccably done. I like how they include so many behind the screen industry people along with the actors and directors, most I had seen their names on credits or knew about their work, but not necessarily their faces. It's a beautifully done tribute.

Who will be at the top during the Oscars tribute? As of now, I would say Maggie Smith.

Some of the choice of footage is unexpected. For Mitzi they show Anything Goes and not South Pacific.

That was fantastic. So many! And they included Shannen Doherty. So young and so ill for so long.

Just watched it twice in a row. Absolutely lovely. It made me quite sad, yet at the same time, there’s a lot of joy packed into that montage. The team that made this truly loves movies.

And I loved the song and how they aligned lyrics to specific clips or shots. It reminded me of a top-drawer Harry Nilsson song.

Just a wonderful tribute.

We don't know who will get Oscar's last slot because that person hasn't died yet.

Great video. I liked the Shelly Duvall clip.

Matching the picture of sound engineer Dan Wallin with a quick shot of the movie for which he was Oscar nominated ( A Star Is Born 1976), shows this was made by people who care.

The Oscars' In Memoriam will open with Maggie Smith. Penultimate will be Shelley Duvall, and James Earl Jones will be last. (Unless bigger stars than those die in the next few months.)

R31, I noticed that, too. The montage didn't always include what the person was best known for. Eg. they showed a clip of James Earl Jones from 'Field of Dreams' rather than his most famous role as Darth Vader in 'Star Wars'.

His face didn’t appear in Star Wars, they’d have to use a voice clip

They also didn't show a clip of Maggie Smith from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie but instead opted for Harry Potter (duh!) and Travels with My Aunt.

She may be fighting with Donald Sutherland for that first position on the Oscar obit.

Same goes for Teri Garr with the clip from One from the Heart and not Tootsie.

I think the image and how it fits in with the theme and the flow of the piece was more important than selecting the best-known work of the deceased. I appreciate the extra work that went into that.

what is that clip of Gena Rowlands dancing from?

The theme was taking a train journey. Eveyone is on their way to the next stop.

R44 That is the theme I got as well, so they tried to add films clips that best suited that concept

Saw this over the weekend. Just lovely. TCM is a treasure.

R38, I'd have loved to see James Earl Jones in [italic]The Great White Hope.[/italic]

My God, was he MASTERFUL in that film; it's as close as one could get to seeing how absolutely commanding he must have in the original Broadway production. Like watching a lion or panther stride the earth.

So many good ones gone this year. I was hit hardest by Teri Garr and Bob Newhart, both seemed people you’d like to be friends with.

Well, it looks like we have our first position in the Oscars In Memoriam segment…

[quote]Burt, The Crocodile Featured In ‘Crocodile Dundee’, Dies At 90

Damn. He looked just fine at Jazzercise last week.

Hate to say it but doesn't resonate as much as there are very few pre mid 1960s actors/actresses and 11directors on these list. The montage will just be modern artist and producers.

I enjoyed the Crocodile Dundee movies.

I was pleased to see they included Bobby Banas.

No Paolo Taviani?! No Yvonne Furneaux???!!! The hack who compiled this deserves to burn in hell.

Bobby Bananas

Great, as usual. I missed Janis Paige's passing.

Janis Paige was there, albeit briefly.

We covered it.

Sorry, I know this is very off-topic but I was just scanning TCM's schedule for today and they have the Bette Midler/Lily Tomlin 1988 film, "Big Business," scheduled from 8:15-8:45am ET. Thinking that odd, I checked the film's Wikipedia page and it was 97 minutes, so TCM is cutting it down to just a half-hour? Have they ever done that to a film before?

r59 the Big Business they are showing isn't the Midler/Tomlin one. It is a silent film from 1929 according to their website.

R47, yes, since James Earl Jones received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for 'The Great White Hope', that would have been a good one to have included in the montage, too.