Queen Latifah performed "I'll Be Seeing You" during the annual In Memoriam tribute to honor individuals who died since the previous year's Academy Award ceremonies. Listed below are those who were honored during the tribute.
- Cyd Charisse (actress and dancer)
- Bernie Mac (actor, producer, and comedian)
- Bud Stone (executive)
- Ollie Johnston (animator)
- Van Johnson
- J. Paul Huntsman (sound editor)
- Michael Crichton (writer & director)
- Nina Foch
- Pat Hingle
- Harold Pinter (writer)
- Charles H. Joffe (producer)
- Kon Ichikawa (director)
- Charles H. Schneer (producer)
- Abby Mann (screenwriter)
- Roy Scheider (Best Actor nominee, All That Jazz)
- David Watkin (director of photography)
- Robert Mulligan (director, To Kill a Mockingbird)
- Evelyn Keyes
- Richard Widmark
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- Claude Berri (director)
- Maila Nurmi
- Isaac Hayes
- Leonard Rosenman (composer)
- Ricardo Montalbán
- Manny Farber (film critic)
- Robert DoQui
- Jules Dassin (director)
- Paul Scofield (Best Actor winner, A Man for All Seasons)
- John Michael Hayes (screenwriter)
- Warren Cowan (publicist)
- Joseph H. Caracciolo (producer)
- Stan Winston (special effects)
- Ned Tanen (executive producer)
- James Whitmore
- Charlton Heston (Best Actor winner, Ben-Hur)
- Anthony Minghella (director & producer)
- Sydney Pollack (director, Out of Africa)
- Paul Newman (Best Actor winner, The Color of Money)
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Note: Several notable individuals including Sam Bottoms, George Carlin, Don S. Davis, Mel Ferrer, Beverly Garland, Estelle Getty, Eartha Kitt, Harvey Korman, Jerry Reed, Don LaFontaine, John Phillip Law, Patrick McGoohan, Anita Page, and Robert Prosky were not included in the "In Memoriam" tribute, though they died within the last year. Heath Ledger died shortly before the year before, and a tribute to him was included then.