John Hughes Death Remembered In Oscars
By Naiwrita, Gaea News NetworkMonday, March 8, 2010
LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- John Hughes, the great filmmaker who fell to his death last year on Aug 6, was remembered by his peers in the 82nd Academy awards on Sunday, Mar 7, 2010. John Hughes dies of a heart attack in his residence in New York City. He is remembered by the film fraternity and the rest of the world, for a number of the most hilarious movies that he had treated the world with. Some of the most well known films directed by him are the first and the second parts of the “Home Alone” franchise, “Pretty In Pink,” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Added to that, he also directed a host of other films- almost all of them in the comic genre.
John Hughes is also remembered for having introduced to the world a horde of great actors, the likes of Macaulay Culkin, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Judd Nelson among others. In the Oscars, many of the actors he had brought into the limelight congregated on stage to pay a tribute to him. The ceremony was mainly presented by Molly Ringwald and Matthew Broderick, but was later attended by Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Macaulay Culkin, Jon Cryer and Ally Sheedy.
The tribute to John Hughes began with a collage of the films that he had made in his long career at Hollywood. After that, Molly Ringwald, Matthew Broderick and the others spoke about him. The speech of once child star Macaulay Culkin deserves special mention. All in all, the tribute to John Hughes was an emotional and touching one, reminding once more the great loss suffered by the film franchise by John Hughes’ death.
