After Alain Delon, the Oscars forget to pay tribute to Brigitte Bardot

Our cousins ​​in America lost an opportunity to correct the rudeness of the part of the César audience who had booed images of BB Brigitte Bardot is one of the main absentees from the long tribute sequence projected during the 98^e edition of the Oscars, which took place Sunday evening in Los Angeles.

The late Catherine O’Hara (Mom, I missed the plane!) has been praised at length, Diane Keaton has received much praise for her career and her fantasy – a “icon”, “she meant so much”. The faces of heavyweights Robert Redford, Robert Duvall and Val Kilmer appeared on screen, as did those of actors Udo Kier and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

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Claudia Cardinale, but not Brigitte Bardot

The Oscars don’t just focus on celebrities, as they honor the memory of many professionals, from casting directors to cinematographers. Proof of the organizers’ cinephilia, the sequence also mentions the Frenchman Marcel Ophüls, author of Grief and pityand American documentarian Frederick Wiseman.

How, then, to explain the absence of Brigitte Bardot? Because she left movie sets decades before her death, at the height of her fame? For his political positions? The Academy has obviously forgotten the phenomenal success ofAnd God… created woman (1956), a whirlwind of freedom which did not spare the United States. Last year, she did not see fit to greet the deceased Alain Delon.

Careful observers also note the absence this year of James Van Der Beek, who recently died of cancer. The Academy, on the other hand, has not ignored the disappearance of the Franco-Italian Claudia Cardinale, the eternal face of Cheetahwho had the right to a strong tribute. The Oscars have chosen their “petroleuse”, to quote the title of this film worn by Cardinale and Bardot in 1971.