Paul Sorvino’s wife Dee Dee Sorvino and his daughterMira Sorvinoare speaking out about the late actor being omitted from the 2023 Oscars' In Memoriam segment.
Goodfellasactor Sorvino — whodied from natural causesin July at 83 — was notably absent from the slideshow that aired during the broadcast. (A gallery featuring more people isavailable online, with a scannable QR code that was shown onscreen during the broadcast, directing viewers to the extended tributes.)
Sorvino’s widow Dee Dee called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to apologize for his exclusion.
Paul Sorvino and daughter Mira Sorvino in 2013.Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic
Otherstars left out of the broadcast includedAnne Heche and model Charlbi Dean, who was the star of Best Picture nomineeTriangle of Sadness.
Dee Dee and Paul Sorvino in 2017.Matthew Eisman/Getty
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Dee Dee added, “Paul was not the only deserving soul left out, and a QR Code is not acceptable. The Academy needs to issue an apology, admit the mistake and do better. Paul Sorvino deserves better, the audience deserves better. Is the Academy so jaded they forget people who are loved, who have given their hearts to this industry?”
“Shame on the Academy if this is not corrected,” she continued. “Mistakes are made, this was a big one. Please do something to make it right.”
Sorvino’s daughter, actress Mira seemed to reference her dad’s absence from the In Memoriam portion on Twitter,tweetingafterthe Oscarsaired, “I for one am remembering Dad on this Oscars night….” She later tweeted directly about her dad’s omission on Monday,writing, “It is baffling beyond belief that my beloved father and many other amazing brilliant departed actors were left out.The Oscarsforgot about Paul Sorvino, but the rest of us never will!!”
Earlier on Sunday, Mira, 55, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress forMighty Aphroditein 1996, recalled the night she won and remembered the experience with her dad.
“On this Oscars night I am so happy forall of the nominees and the winners, but I am also moved in a thousand different ways when I think of the night I got to share my Academy Award with my Dad, the very great actor Paul Sorvino, who was never nominated,” shewroteon Instagram.
“To get to share this blindingly positive moment with my father… My first and best teacher, my beloved Daddy who came to all the school plays and loved from the bottom of his heart, the brilliant thespian whom all his colleagues revered as one of the greatest, to get to give back to him what he had been giving me all my life- love and belief and admiration and gratitude,” said Mira. “On this first year after his passing it is truly a bittersweet but beautiful memory. I love you Dad, I miss you so much.”
source: people.com
