Academy Award bosses have explained why they did not include Farrah Fawcett in the ceremony's 2010 In Memoriam segment. You know, the thing they do part way through the event, where they do sad music and pictures of people working in the industry who've passed away. Anyway, the family of the late actress have said they are “deeply saddened” that she was not acknowledged in the sequence, following her death from cancer in June last year.

The Academy are apologetic but say that in fact, Fawcett was better known for her TV work, which is why she was not included in the line up of late movie stars and practitioners. They also pointed out that although the actress was considered for inclusion, they can't include everyone in the montage, and added that an "an unusual number of extremely distinguished screenwriters" died this year, and the committee who decides on these things wanted to try and honour as many of those as possible.

It's clearly not the first time people have reacted badly to the non-inclusion of someone they care about. The academy's executive director Bruce Davis says: "There's nothing you can say to people, particularly to family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all".